Clik here to view.
Fleur's Copy of Creature Comforts by Charles Addams
The great cartoon master Charles Addams presented his acquaintance Fleur with a copy of the collection Creature Comforts (1981) enhanced with an original drawing of Uncle Fester. This Flashing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fleur's Copy of My Crowd by Charles Addams
To recap: Charles Addams presented his friend Fleur with a copy of Drawn and Quartered, the reissue, in 1970. He included a drawing of the Addams Family's Morticia along with an inscription, in French,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #825
I attended the board meeting in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #825 from the issue of October 31, 2022, and I made my contribution. My caption is shown below. The drawing is by Bob...
View ArticleClik here to view.
My Entries in the Moment Cartoon Caption Contest for September/October 2022
I'm up in the air over Moment magazine's Cartoon Caption Contest for September/ October 2022. My eleven entries are shown below. The high-flying drawing is by Benjamin Schwarz."You really splurged on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fleur's Copy of Favorite Haunts by Charles Addams
In the year of its publication, Charles Addams presented his friend Fleur with a personalized copy of Favorite Haunts (1976). The similarity between Addams and Uncle Fester is implicit in the drawing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
George Booth: A Very Good Thought (About a Pussycat)
Cartoonist George Booth, who passed away Tuesday at age 96, brought a singular sensibility to his work. His drawings were quirky, often depicting eccentric characters and their equally oddball pets....
View ArticleClik here to view.
George Booth: Into the Dictionary
New Yorker cartoonist George Booth, who passed away this week on November 1, spoke at the Society of Illustrators five years ago in conversation with animator J. J. Sedelmaier, who curated the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pittsfield 2022: Pontoosuc Lake
October 22 found your blogger exploring Pittsfield, Massachusetts. It was the perfect time to observe the changing leaves and Mount Greylock would have been the perfect vantage point for taking...
View ArticleClik here to view.
George Booth: The NAPA Auto Parts Catalogue
Cartoonist George Booth (1926-2022), the creator of The New Yorker's most hilarious (and now iconic) cartoons on the subjects of auto mechanics and garages, must have seemed the natural choice to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #826
I was called stat to The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #826 from the issue of November 7, 2022. My caption is shown below. The drawing is by Shannon Wheeler."What now? The anesthesiologist was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
George Booth: Focusing on the Yardwork
It's instructive to look at the original artwork of George Booth, the legendary New Yorker cartoonist who passed away last week at the age of 96. His style seemed effortless, but often he painstakingly...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Arthur Rackham: Alice and the Pack of Cards
In 1907, British illustrator Arthur Rackham created the art for a new edition of Lewis Carroll'sAlice's Adventures in Wonderland. The original watercolor for the iconic scene in which "the whole pack...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Roger Angell's Copy of U and I by Nicholson Baker
Sports essayist and New Yorker fiction editor Roger Angell died on May 20 of this year at the age of 101. Now, works from his library are beginning to appear on the market. They are offered by M. S....
View ArticleClik here to view.
James Stevenson: Flush Royals
"It's good to be the king."—Mel BrooksHistory of the World, Part 1 (1981)And queen, I might add. New Yorker cartoonist James Stevenson (1929-2017) demonstrates that there might be a better word to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ariane Allen's Copy of Here at The New Yorker by Brendan Gill
"And how hard I was on Ross as well!"Brendan GillHere at The New Yorker (1975), p. 368Brendan Gill published Here at The New Yorker in 1975 to coincide with the venerable publication's fiftieth...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ann Honeycutt's Copy of Credos and Curios by James Thurber
Credos and Curios (1962) is a posthumous collection of profiles by James Thurber. On AbeBooks, Johnson Rare Books and Archives of Covina describes a "Presentation copy, inscribed by the author's widow,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #827
I took the uptown local to The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #827 from the issue of November 14, 2022. My caption is shown below. The drawing is by Lars Kenseth."Has anyone ever tried drawing on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The CartoonStock Caption Contest #160
Some might say I'm not fit enough to enter the CartoonStock Caption Contest #160, but all it really takes is a credit card. Here's how the contest works: Three entries cost $5. Real cash prizes are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Roger Angell's Copy of Amateurs by Donald Barthelme
I never got to meet Donald Barthelme; I know him only through his extraordinary short stories, many of them published in The New Yorker, and one of his novels. Neither did I meet Roger Angell, a New...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Peter Arno: The Art of Polling
Polling is a tricky business. Only a small fraction of the public—about 10%—even respond to polls. Then not everyone tells the truth when surveyed. If only we had more intuitive pollsters such as, say,...
View Article