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Life Magazine Presents "New Yorker" Covers
Here's an article on New Yorker covers published in Life magazine back in 1946. Life reproduced the unadorned cover artwork without the magazine's logo, which must have required considerable...
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Lee Lorenz with Two Hearts
Here's a very nice copy of The Art of The New Yorker 1925-1995 with an original drawing and personalized inscription by the author Lee Lorenz. Lorenz succeeded art editor James Geraghty, serving in...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #431
Here is my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #431 for June 9, 2014. The drawing is by P. C. Vey."I thought I would be more interesting."Here are a few other captions I considered...
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The Unreliable Fortune Cookie
If you can't trust your Chinese fortune cookie, what can you trust? Last week's fortune cookie proved just slightly self-serving:"A good way to keep healthy is to eat more Chinese food."Note: The blog...
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An Extra Nizzard from Dr. Seuss
Earlier this month, Bonhams sold this copy of The King's Stilts (1939) with an original drawing by Dr. Seuss. The Nizzard in question is a troublesome bird which appears in the story. Flocks of...
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If you want to learn a little something about yourself, go and write a blog. I, for one, have been surprised to learn that I am quite comfortable writing about cultural phenomena that occurred well...
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Ronald Searle: The Joys of Housework
"Searle is surely one of the finest (if not indeed the very best) of all-around cartoonists and illustrators in our day. Searle's work continues to be the despair of all black-and-white men everywhere,...
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Noodling Around with Ed Koren
Reader and contributor David from Manhattan writes of his latest discovery pertaining to Edward Koren, now Vermont's Cartoonist Laureate:I've never figured out what some bookstores mean by describing a...
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Chon Day: Brother Sebastian's Hourglass
Chon Day's Brother Sebastian contemplates the passage of time, and in this apparently he's not...
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John Held, Jr.: We Can Only Be Young Once
John Held, Jr. illustrated a swinging college graduation celebration for Cosmopolitan in the mid-1920's. Diplomas are tossed aside by a stunned college president and parents look on in quiet...
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George Booth: Devilled in the Details
Original published artwork by the inimitable George Booth was sold on eBay this past December. The eBay seller's father worked at the New Yorker where he obtained this drawing. Good move. It is one of...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #432
Here is my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #432 for June 23, 2014. The drawing is by Danny Shanahan."Did you really expect complimentary Wi-Fi?"Note: For last week's New Yorker Cartoon...
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Botero Ballerina
A limited-edition bronze sculpture of a ballerina by Fernando Botero has her legs at right angles to each other. Perhaps this explains the title Ballerina with Square...
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Blog Post No. 1200: The Ukrainian Situation
"They stayed away in droves." --Samuel GoldwynThe Attempted Bloggery header in UkrainianMore and more my political view of the world has taken on the...
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Robert Benchley's Autograph
"The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him."--Robert BenchleyCurrently offered on eBay is this autograph album page from the collection of Fred J. Hall. It bears the autograph of...
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Clare Briggs: Mr. and Mrs.
Cartoonist Clare Briggs created the popular characters Joe and Vi for his Mr. and Mrs. comic strip. Here they are on an autograph album page signed in 1929, the year before he died.Clare Briggs,...
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Uncle Sam by Roy Justus
Some time back Roy Justus, political cartoonist for the Minneapolis Star, provided an autograph collector with this drawing of a jolly Uncle Sam. Somehow I doubt Sam would would have cause to laugh...
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Uncle Sam by Charles Henry Sykes
Editorial cartoonist Charles Henry Sykes signed an autograph page in 1931 and included a drawing of Uncle...
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Hank Porter for Walt Disney
An elementary school teacher once told me he had written to Walt Disney and received from him a signed original drawing of Mickey Mouse. I never saw it but years later had thought this must be one of...
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A Frank Modell Theater Sketch
A framed drawing by cartoonist Frank Modell now on eBay is fresh from the estate of philanthropist Sue Erpf van de Bovenkamp (1928-2011). The eBay seller states this sketch dated 1961 "needs research."...
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