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Playing Ball with Barry Blitt's New Yorker Cover of May 22, 2017
Perhaps there are those of a particular political bent who, for whatever reason, wish to celebrate President Donald Trump's dismissal of FBI director James Comey on May 9, 2017. Others conceivably...
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A Bank Manager's Copy of The Terror of St Trinian's by Timothy Shy and Ronald...
Those wicked Searle schoolgirls! A copy of The Terror of St. Trinian's (1952) by Timothy Shy and Ronald Searle was dedicated by the illustrator to his bank manager at Christmas in the year of...
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A Coney Island Balloon Seller: Peter de Sève Original New Yorker Cover Art
This past Tuesday, South Bay Auctions on Long Island sold a work of original New Yorker cover art from the issue of September 6, 1993. The artist is Peter de Sève and the subject is a Coney Island...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #857
Have your boarding pass ready for The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #857 from the combined issue of July 10 & 17, 2023. My creepy caption is shown below. The crawly drawing is by Will...
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Edward Koren: A Sketch Dated 2/8/2018
A sketch on an index card signed by New Yorker cartoonist Edward Koren (1935-2023) shows one of his furry creatures. It is dated February 8, 2018. The drawing was sold on eBay three months ago to a...
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Edward Koren: A Bookplate
An original bookplate signed by cartoonist Edward Koren is currently being offered by AbeBooks seller Daniel Montemarano. The bookplate is inscribed with an delightful original sketch of a bird. It is...
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Lee Lorenz: Tennis Equipment
A set of three matching color illustrations by the late Lee Lorenz (1932-2022), former art editor (1973-1993) and cartoon editor (1993-1997) of The New Yorker. The drawings are on the subject of tennis...
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A Steuben Blue Aurene Ruffled Fan Vase
There's so much comic art on this blog that readers might easily forget that its author also has a passion for art nouveau glass. Iridized glass was marketed by Frederick Carder of Steuben as Aurene...
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Jean-Jacques Sempé: From Mao to Mozart Poster
Cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé (1932-2022) was completely at home in the world of music. His movie poster for the French-language version of From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China (1979) expresses the...
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Gahan Wilson: Water Safety
Fleetwood bookseller Charles Agvent is offering an original Playboy cartoon by the inimitable Gahan Wilson. It is, after all, that time of year when water safety should be on everyone's mind."Oh—and...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #858
Psst! May I interest you in a bootleg copy of The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #858 from the issue of July 24, 2023? My caption is shown below. The drawing is by Jerald Lewis."You'll never guess...
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The CartoonStock Cartoon Caption Contest No. 169
For the CartoonStock Caption Contest #169, Jason Adam Katzenstein shows us a dog as commencement speaker at a graduation ceremony for dogs. How does one write a caption for this?By now, you should have...
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The Boston Globe: Cartoon Books of 1945
To help readers in 1945 with their holiday book buying, the Boston Globe published a number of capsule reviews on Wednesday, November 28. Subjects on the book page included "For Sportsmen," marketed...
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Joseph Farris: The Sands of Time
Yesterday Millea Bros., Ltd., of Boonton, New Jersey, sold an original ink drawing by New Yorker cartoonist Joseph Farris (1924-2015).Who among us is fond of the consequences of aging? Certainly not...
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License Plate for the Tardy?
Today's blog post comes to you with more than my usual sloth. Nevertheless, I assure you that the following license plate does not belong to me."ALWYSLTE"New York state license plate 04394
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Garth Williams: The New School of Dancing
Garth Williams's 1940 drawing The New School of Dancing makes fun of modern dance, depicting its practitioners as awkward marionettes in a mechanized art form. Their movements are anything but...
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Arthur Rackham: Closeted Up With the Fortune-Teller
Arthur Rackham's original illustration Closeted Up With the Fortune-Teller is available from Heritage Book Shop in Beverly Hills. It was published as color plate 4 in the artist's 1929 edition of...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #859
Eureka! If you can't read the writing on the wall, try the blackboard in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #859 from the issue of July 31, 2023. My caption is shown below. The drawing is by Juan...
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Al Hirschfeld: A Preliminary Sketch of Tony Azito from Joseph Papp's "The...
Tony Azito (1948-1995) became famous seemingly overnight playing the Police Sergeant in Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival production of Gilbert and Sullivan's"The Pirates of Penzance." The...
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Saul Steinberg: Gingerbread House
Among his many drawing skills, Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) rendered compelling interiors. His Gingerbread House, published by House & Garden in 1946, is full of ornate detail. Somehow the excess of...
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