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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #837
This week, the game is afoot in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #837 from the issue of February 6, 2022. My caption is shown below. The drawing is by Robert Leighton."I have most of it, Watson....
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The CartoonStock Caption Contest #163
Hulk smash . . . the CartoonStock Caption Contest #163. Let's go over how this new monthly cash prize contest works: $5 buys up to three entries and no more. Real cash prizes are $500 for first place...
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Clown Feet: Charles Addams and Ronald Searle
How often does it happen that two cartoonists come up with virtually the same idea? Actually, it's not all that rare, and often it does not involve intentional or even inadvertent copying. Charles...
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Bruce's Copy of Gahan Wilson's America
In Bruce's copy of Gahan Wilson's America, (1985), the cartoonist dedicates the book to "a fellow Lovecraftian." The creature Wilson has drawn so deftly in the book is H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu,"A...
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The Society of Illustrators: Pay-Time and Play-Time
The thirtieth annual exhibition of the Society of Illustrators was held at the Harlow, McDonald Gallery early in the spring of 1932. It was the time of the Great Depression and, according to an ad...
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Ronald Searle: Teenybopper in Demi-Paradise
This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,This other Eden, demi-paradise,This fortress built by Nature for herselfAgainst infection and the hand of...
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Kathin and Utig's Copy of Raymond Peynet's Les Amoreaux de la Côte d'Azur
Kathin and Utig's copy of Les Amoreaux de la Côte d'Azur by Raymond Peynet has an original drawing of two lovebirds singing while perched on a heart. It is a nice valentine, but one can say that about...
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A Disney Trading Pin for Valentines
The classic pie-eyed Minnie and Mickey Mouse face each other in a 2015 hinged Disney trading pin. The heart-shaped pin is in two pieces held together by two round links. The large and unconventional...
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Liza Donnelly and Michael Maslin: Cartoon Marriage, Signed
A collectable copy of Liza Donnelly and Michael Maslin'sCartoon Marriage: Adventures in Love and Matrimony signed and drawn upon by both authors was sold last year. The final sale price, not disclosed...
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Natural Selection: Chris Ware Preliminary New Yorker Cover Art
For its eighty-fifth anniversary double issue of February 15 and 22, 2010, The New Yorker published not the classic Eustace Tilley image but four different new covers. The idea was that this quartet of...
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"Ringo" Daniel Funes: New York, New York
To make a movie called "New York, New York" with a "New York" number that isn't the one you go into the cinema humming is rather like writing a children's book called "Alice in Wonderland" which is...
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Jerry Granat's Copy of Monster Rally by Charles Addams
In November of 1975, autograph collector Jerry Granat was very specific about what he wanted from Charles Addams when he sent the cartoonist a copy of Monster Rally (1950) for a signature. "In keeping...
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Jane Glickman's Copy of Favorite Haunts by Charles Addams
With all the souvenir drawings cartoonist Charles Addams has left for his many admirers to enjoy, it wasn't until yesterday, at least on this blog, that we saw him place Wednesday and Pugsley Addams...
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Arthur Glickman's Copy of Black Maria by Charles Addams
Arthur Glickman's copy of Black Maria (1960) was inscribed in the year of publication by cartoonist Charles Addams with Christmas greetings. There is also an original drawing of the boy we know as...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #838
Gather 'round the campfire for The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #838 from the issue of February 13 & 20, 2022. My caption is shown below. The drawing is by Mick Stevens."But you haven't known...
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Arthur Glickman's Copy of Homebodies by Charles Addams
Charles Addams's cartoon collection Homebodies was published in 1954. Two years later, the artist dedicated a copy to Arthur Glickman, including an original ink and wash illustration of the characters...
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Books: The Sixth New Yorker Album and My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber
Readers of The World of Books, a section of the Courier-Journal of Louisville on Sunday, November 19, 1933, were treated to front page reviews of two books related to the world of The New Yorker. The...
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Whitney Darrow, Jr.: Mother of the Month
A work of vintage, original cartoon art from The New Yorker is available on Etsy priced at $1,500. The artist, Whitney Darrow, Jr., shows us one make-believe mom without her pedestal. The year was 1956...
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Ronald Searle in Le Monde: The Limited Edition
I've been tracking the price of rare books by cartoonist Ronald Searle for a number of years now. Lately, I'm starting to see some evidence that prices may be retreating a bit some eleven years after...
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Warren Miller: Couples Therapy
The auction house Millea Bros., Ltd., is correct: the original cartoon art by Warren Miller of his-and-hers psychotherapists sharing a love seat was indeed published in The New Yorker—how could the...
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