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The Night Gwen Stacy Died
In my early adolescence I had been eying The Amazing Spider-Man title at my friendly neighborhood newsstand for some months without buying. When issue 121 came out dated June 1973, it was clear from...
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Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005)Malcolm GladwellMalcolm Gladwell's Blink is about the snap judgments we make within the first two seconds of an encounter and how they affect our...
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"Nice Work If You Can Get It" on Broadway
"Nice Work If You Can Get It" Broadway Posterhttp://jkstheatrescene.blogspot.com/2012/04/logos-nice-work-if-you-can-get-it.htmlI saw last night's performance of "Nice Work If You Can Get It" at the...
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New York Yankees 1923 Signed Baseball
Keep your eye on the ball! On February 23, Heritage Auctions is offering a rare team baseball signed by the 1923 champions, the New York Yankees. A quick survey of the following chart should be helpful...
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Peter Arno's Insider: More from a Blogger's Birthday Wish List
Once again I've reached another birthday, and still I haven't ever seen a pretty young woman pop out of a cake. I don't really expect to. I must not be traveling in the right circles.Cartoonist Peter...
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Searle Bird: More from a Blogger's Birthday Wish List
I think that if one somehow were able to draw like Ronald Searle there would be little point to doing anything else. Here's another masterpiece of his from my increasingly extensive birthday wish list....
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Les Folies du Ciel
"Les Folies du Ciel" is a scarf design for Hermès by Loïc Dubigeon. It exists in a variety of colors; this particular example has a pink background. The fanciful design is very appealing, but when you...
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Richard Taylor's Wrong Bag
The original artwork toRichard Taylor's1959 Wrong Bag cartoon was sold on eBay in June. I don't usually go in for medical humor, particularly humor making fun of doctor's incomes, but this one I happen...
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Another Reason to Go to Medical School
Pin-up art isn't really my thing. Neither is medical humor, at least that's what I keep telling everyone here. But put the two together, and I find myself unexpectedly delighted.Gil Elvgren's"Doctor,...
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Shortly after entering Disney's Animal Kingdom five years ago, I was surprised to run into DiVine, the park's "living vine." It's not unusual to be surprised by her as her camouflage is, well,...
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Ed Arno: The Art Show at No. 70-70
Another original children's book manuscript by cartoonist Ed Arno was recently sold on eBay. It comes out of the artist's estate and is called The Art Show at No....
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Arthur Szyk's Book of Esther
Last month Swann Galleries sold this limited edition copy (330/400) of Arthur Szyk's beautifully illustrated Megillat Esther from 1925. The Book of Esther is read every year on Purim.Arthur Szyk, from...
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Hello and Hi to Vasco Mourão
Once again, illustrator Vasco Mourão has had a piece published in The New Yorker, this time a whimsical spot drawing. I have remarked before on his New York Perceptions, impossible architectural...
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Boston Tea Party Tie
This red Hermès silk tie, design 7536 IA, shows tea leaves, a tea service, and a tea container. So whilethe basic tea motif is clear, I still can't quite make the leap to interpreting this design as...
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David Pascal's Copy of The Art of The New Yorker
About four years ago I purchased a somewhat worn copy of Lee Lorenz'sThe Art of The New Yorker 1925-1995 on eBay. I already had a good, clean copy, of course, but this one boasted the signatures of...
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Sequestration: No Honeymoon in Niagara Falls
Mischa RichterI purchased this drawing by cartoonist Mischa Richter in 2008 on a whim purely because I liked it. It's a cartoon rough, of course, rather than a finished drawing, and it resembles a...
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George Price's Jack of All Trades
It has become commonplace for us to blame unsuccessful men for showing a lack of initiative in their work. Well, here's a situation where that's clearly not the case. In the days before the gas station...
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Penn Station
New York's original Pennsylvania Station was an architectural masterpiece designed by the firm McKim, Mead and White. It was completed in 1910, photographed by Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) in 1936, and...
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Peruvian Seuss
Ted Geisel. whom you may know as Dr. Seuss, was born on this day in 1904. He visited Peru on more than one occasion and presumably drew a lot of llamas among other things. Four of these 1925 Peruvian...
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Ronald Searle Puns on Pigs
Today, the 93rd anniversary of the birth of illustrator Ronald Searle, seems as fitting a time as any to visit the odd subject of puns on pigs. Yes, today's topic is pig puns. There will always be...
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