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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #868
Mister Softee is getting in touch with his feelings on a psychotherapist's couch. Welcome to The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #868 from the issue of October 2, 2023. My caption is shown below....
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Charles Addams: In the Pawn Shop Window
Between about 1957 and 1967, the Chase Manhattan Bank, today JPMorgan Chase, ran a print advertising campaign that garnered some attention. It urged people of means to take care of their nest eggs.The...
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William Steig: Loose Talk Can Cost Lives
We've all heard the phrase "Loose lips sink ships." It was created by the War Advertising Council for American propaganda posters in World War II. The British equivalent, according to Wikipedia, is...
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The Art in Cartooning Signed by Ten Cartoonists
Ten cartoonists signed a single copy of The Art in Cartooning: Seventy-five Years of American Magazine Cartoons, the 1975 collection edited by Edwin Fisher, Mort Gerberg, and Ron Wolin for the...
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George Shellhase: Chinese Lunch
Cartoonist George Shellhase's drawing of the downstairs kitchen of a Chinese restaurant was sold three months ago on eBay. The restaurant is on Pell Street in New York's Chinatown. A Chinese lunch is...
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Peter Steiner: "On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Dog."
There's only one most-licensed, most-reproduced New Yorker cartoon of all time, and there's only one original of that cartoon:"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."Peter SteinerOriginal artThe...
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Glen Keane: A Pocahontas Specialty Drawing
Disney animator Glen Keane presented this drawing of Pocahontas and Grandmother Willow to fellow animator Pres Romanillos (1963-2010) on his fortieth birthday. Keane was supervising animator for...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #869
It's just another day in the conference room, except that the boss is a goldfish in a bowl. Welcome to The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #869 from the issue of October 9, 2023. My caption is shown...
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Ralph Steadman: Queen Elizabeth II's Contact Sheet
Here's an old favorite by Ralph Steadman, a drawing of a contact sheet of the royal portrait photograph of Queen Elizabeth II. It is reproduced on a postcard which Steadman used in 1981 to write to a...
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OED Update: The State of Bloggery
Nothing to see here, folks. Bloggery is still not a word according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the authority on such things. OED.com search result accessed October 11, 2023For the record, I did...
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Google Translate Update: The State of Bloggery
According to the OED, as related in yesterday's post, bloggery is a non-word. The stodgy old Oxford gatekeepers don't allow many new words into the English language lexicon, so the term is likely to...
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Edward Koren: Creature Appreciation
Enterprise Books of Chicago offers a copy of New Yorker cartoonist Edward Koren's (1935-2023) first collection, Do You Want to Talk About It? This 1976 book is signed with an original drawing of a...
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Niki de Saint Phalle: Ballerina
I've always admired the work of Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002). Her sculpture Ballerina, for example, overflows with vitality and joy. I was puzzled by the lack of a presale estimate when it was...
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MDLinx Comic Consult #11
The MDLinx Comic Consult is a caption contest open only to the medical community. Prizes are a $100 Amazon gift card for first place, and four $50 gift cards for up to four runners up. This is contest...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #870
Many important decisions have to be made when setting up the nursery. Welcome to The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #870 from the issue of October 16, 2023. My caption is shown below. The drawing...
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The CartoonStock Cartoon Caption Contest No. 172
The surgical team has some news for Dorothy and Toto in the CartoonStock Caption Contest #172. The rules of the monthly cash prize contest haven't changed: five dollars buys up to three entries. Real...
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Marcelle Methlin's Copy of Which Way Did He Go? by Ronald Searle
In 1961 cartoonist Ronald Searle left his English wife Kaye Webb for Monica Koenig and moved to Paris. Short on cash, he was eager to barter his artwork for rent, food, and wine. His social center...
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Marcelle Methlin's Copy of Médisances by Ronald Searle
Médisances is Ronald Searle's 1953 cartoon collection published for the French market. It is marketed as "Humour anglais" and presents Searle's postwar British black comedy with French captions. There...
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Marcelle Methlin's Copy of Hommage à Toulouse-Lautrec by Ronald Searle
Ronald Searle published Hommage à Toulouse-Lautrec in 1969. The book reproduces a fanciful series of drawings and lithographs which depict the diminutive artist and his scantily-clad models in the...
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Sempé Books at Drouot
On Wednesday, a generous selection of cartoon books with original, personalized drawings by Jean-Jacques Sempé was sold at Drouot, Paris. A few of the sketches may have been separated from their books,...
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