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Charles Addams: Walking the Dog
Not every cartoon by Charles Addams was first published in The New Yorker. Between perhaps 1955 and 1957, he published a weekly panel cartoon called Out of This World with the McClure Syndicate. An...
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Saul Steinberg: Eat
Saul Steinberg's drawing Eat was sold at Bonhams Skinner Marlborough on Thursday. The Saul Steinberg Foundation refers to this sort of composition as a word-object drawing.Eat, 1960Saul...
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Richard Taylor: A Revised Statuary of Morse
In 1938 and 1939, readers of The New Yorker were treated to a series of satirical statue designs by cartoonist Richard Taylor. Presented singly in the magazine, they went under the shared title A...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #828
I took a few extra strokes in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #828 from the issue of November 21, 2022. My caption is shown below. The drawing is by Harry Bliss."I'm "I'm stuck with a...
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Frank Modell: Turkeys in the Snow
New Yorker cartoonist Frank Modell's painting of two turkeys out in a snowfall views the birds from slightly behind with their heads turned away. Lightly signed Modell on the left in red, it is an...
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Helen E. Hokinson: Preparing the Feast
The pigments in Helen E. Hokinson'sNew Yorker cover original art of November 27, 1937, have faded somewhat over the years, but it hasn't lost its charm or its humor. Last year, New Haven auctions of...
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Giving Thanks 2022
It's Thanksgiving already? Time to find a turkey...George BoothThe New Yorker, November 26, 1973https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/1973-11-26/flipbook/CV1/Throughout these eleven years of...
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The 2022 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
A quick check of the blog archives reveals that it has been twelve years since I attended the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and six years since I visited the balloon inflation. Any reasonable person...
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Danny Shanahan's Copy of Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell
Author Joseph Mitchell (1908-1996) and cartoonist Danny Shanahan (1956-2021) were both associated with The New Yorker, although they were from distinctly different generations and creative disciplines....
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Richard Merkin's and Edith Oliver's Copies of McSorley's Wonderful Saloon by...
Journalist Joseph Mitchell (1908-1996) came to The New Yorker from the World-Telegram in the late 1930s and he continued to elevate the art of the profile. After 1964, he still showed up at his office...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #829
I needed some direction for The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #829 from the issue of November 28, 2022. My classy caption is shown below. The drawing is by Lonnie Millsap."Everywhere you look,...
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Yours for a Grand: Michael Witte's Eustace Tilley in The Nutcracker
Since its premiere in 1954, George Balanchine's production of Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker" has been a holiday institution in New York. Spoiler alert: The ballet ends with Marie and the Prince carried...
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My Copy of Jeremy Nguyễn's Can I Pet Your Dog?
New Yorker cartoonist Jeremy Nguyen's first solo book is out and it's called Can I Pet Your Dog? It is a colorful compendium of offbeat strategies for petting other people's dogs. I purchased a copy...
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My Copy of Kevin Maher and Joe Dator's Santa Doesn't Need Your Help
Santa may not be quite as spry as he used to be, but he certainly doesn't need any young do-gooders to step in and try to save Christmas. That is the premise of Santa Doesn't Need Your Help, told in...
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A Garrett Price Christmas Card Drawing
Cartoonist Garrett Price (1896-1979) started working for the Chicago Tribune in 1916 and for The New Yorker in 1925. He drew the comic strip White Boy from 1933 to 1936. In 1940, he moved east to...
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Edward Frascino: Witch List
Last year, original New Yorker cartoon art by Edward Frascino changed hands on eBay. Published in the issue of December 19, 1988, the drawing depicts a witch stirring the contents of a hot cauldron...
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Charles Addams: The Weather Winky Brand
Yesterday, an original advertising design by New Yorker cartoonist Charles Addams went up on the auction block down in Lake Worth Beach, Florida. The product is children's clothing manufactured under...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #830
The World Cup finally meets The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #830 from the issue of December 5, 2022. My caption is shown below. The drawing is by Felipe Galindo."I see our time is up."These...
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Charles E. Martin: Observed in the Observatory
Original New Yorker art by cartoonist Charles E. Martin, or C.E.M., was auctioned by Bonhams on December 5. It dates from 1971, a time when it was not unusual for drawings to take up three-quarters, or...
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Joseph Mirachi: A Happy Ending
Cartoonist Joseph Mirachi's (1919-1991) later work for The New Yorker is spare and sketchy, but it gives us all the information we need. An original drawing from 1984 that sold on eBay in September...
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