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Cornet Player: Jean-Jacques Sempé for Lee Lorenz
By 2001, Lee Lorenz was no longer working as cartoon editor for The New Yorker, but he still played the cornet with his jazz band and he was still friends with many cartoonists, including Frenchman...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #865
It's a beautiful night for dogs to stargaze—where they can—in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #865 from the issue of September 11, 2023. My caption is shown below. The drawing is by Frank...
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Birdman: Jean-Jacques Sempé for Lee Lorenz
Jean-Jacques Sempé's Un léger décalage—in English, A Slight Shift—was published in 1977. The copy he presented that year to New Yorker art editor Lee Lorenz has a unique feature: a drawing of a bird...
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Working Lunch: Jean-Jacques Sempé Preliminary New Yorker Cover Art
From the estate of Lee Lorenz,The New Yorker's art editor from 1973 to 1993 and then the magazine's cartoon editor until 1997, comes a cover rough from Jean-Jacques Sempé. The preliminary art shows men...
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The Orchestra: Jean-Jacques Sempé Preliminary New Yorker Cover Art
Pencil notations on a rough submitted to The New Yorker by French artist Jean-Jacques Sempé in the early 1980s show the magazine's effective editorial hand at work. Does this or any rough drawing...
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Monument: Saul Steinberg New Yorker Cover Art
Whether you're from the School of New York or the School of Paris, you can appreciate Saul Steinberg's inventive New Yorker cover of May 19, 1962. The original art was sold at auction yesterday in...
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Ecosystem: Ivan Brunetti Preliminary and Final New Yorker Cover Art
So this is office life? Ivan Brunetti's original cover art for The New Yorker of March 2, 2009 was sold yesterday at Heritage Auctions along with his rough. The magazine published the cover with the...
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George Price: Maureen Walks Out
The situation in the cartoon doesn't seem all that funny at first. A woman, Maureen, takes her five children and the three pets and she walks out on her husband, leaving him alone in their squalid...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #866
The planet earth walks into a bar. It's The New Yorker CartoonCaption Contest #866 from the issue of September 18, 2023. My caption is shown below. The drawing is by Elisabeth McNair."And bring some...
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The CartoonStock Cartoon Caption Contest No. 171
It's time for some good clean fun with the CartoonStock Caption Contest #171. A musician takes the stage along with a washer and dryer. The rules of the monthly cash prize contest haven't changed of...
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Charles Addams: On the Run
A work of original Charles Addams art was sold this past weekend at Heritage Auctions. A man is seen running frantically across a lawn and neighbors out raking the autumn leaves believe they know what...
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Mischa Richter: Ribbon Cutting
Welcome to the ribbon cutting ceremony! Mischa Richter's two-panel cartoon was published in The New Yorker in 1974. Richter maintains a loose, sketchy line even when rendering the straight lines of a...
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MDLinx Comic Consult #10
I would like to be able to tell you that with the ten days I was given to work on Comic Consult #10 from MDLinx, a sponsored cartoon caption contest open to medical clinicians, I started early and...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #867
There are two trees and one is wearing a tie. Welcome to The New Yorker CartoonCaption Contest #867 from the issue of September 25, 2023. My caption is shown below. The drawing is by Avi...
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Milton Glaser: Figures in the Flowers
Collector William Friedlander of grain merchandiser Bartlett and Company purchased an original work by designer Milton Glaser in 1980 from the Carl Solway Gallery in Cincinnati. The invoice identifies...
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Saul Steinberg: Pitcher
Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) followed the Milwaukee Braves on assignment for Lifemagazine in May and June of 1954, his first exposure to baseball. A selection of his drawings were published the following...
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The Art of the Redraw: George Booth Drops the Other Shoe
A curious six-panel original drawing by New Yorker cartoonist George Booth looks very much like a cartoon published in the issue of June 30, 1975. Indeed, a notation on the verso in the artist's hand...
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David's Copy of Local Fauna by Peter de Sève (with Preliminary and Original...
Sorry about that ungainly title. Today blog contributor David from Manhattan shares a scan of a book page graced with an original drawing by the illustrator Peter de Sève. This appears in David's...
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Peter de Sève: Who's on Top?
A copy of A Sketchy Past: The Art of Peter de Sève (2009) currently listed on AbeBooks by Doodletown Farm Books—how can anyone not love that name?—contains an original sketch by the artist. There's an...
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Bird's Nest in the City: Peter de Sève Proposed New Yorker Cover Art
Back in 2004, a red-tailed hawk named Pale Male and his mate at the time Lulu made headlines in New York City and beyond when their nest was removed from an upscale Fifth Avenue apartment building. The...
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