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Ronald Searle's A Christmas Carol: The Gentlemen Withdrew
Seeing clearly that it would be useless to pursue their point, the gentlemen withdrew. Scrooge resumed his labours with an improved opinion of himself, and in a more facetious temper than was usual...
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Ilonka Karasz: The Twelve Days of Christmas
In 1949, Ilonka Karasz illustrated a picture book of The Twelve Days of Christmas. A few pages are shown here. The illustrations, like the Christmas carol's verses, are recursive in that each new one...
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Ronald Searle: The Twelve Days of Christmas—and a Partridge in a Pear Tree
Ronald Searle's 1982 original illustration of the Twelve Days of Christmas was sold by Christie's in 2001 for a very festive price. The artwork features a Searle cat and was created for a Camden...
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Charles Addams: Christmas Caroling at the Addams Family Mansion
In 2005, the Cartoon Bank advertised a limited edition lithographic print of a well-known Charles Addams cartoon depicting Christmas carolers at the Addams Family mansion. The Cartoon Bank does not...
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Ronald Searle: Molesworth at Christmass
Nigel Molesworth, the imaginative chronicler of St. Custard's prep school, has a great gift for misspelling. He is the 1950's-era creation of writer Geoffrey Willans and illustrator Ronald Searle. At a...
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Ronald Searle: Christmas Presents!
Christmas Presents! That's a big part of this gift-giving season and it's also the title of Ronald Searle's 1993 Christmas card design for Married Women magazine. The original artwork features two...
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Christmas Eve with Ronald Searle
Christmas Eve depicts two loving cats decorating their Christmas tree the last minute. Ronald Searle's original Christmas card illustration from 1982 is exceedingly colorful and charming.Ronald...
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A Christmas Gift from Joseph Farris
Here in the northeast we've seen absolutely no snow yet this season. In fact it has been unseasonably warm with temperatures in my neck of the woods reaching into the 70's on Christmas Eve! Globally,...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #502
Here is my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #502 for December 14, 2015. The life-affirming drawing is by Tom Toro."He handled all the arrangements beforehand."These alternate captions...
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My Best Moment Cartoon Caption Contest Entries of 2015
People like me who can't get our captions noticed by the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest's editors can still get some satisfaction by submitting to the Moment magazine contest. This July the caption...
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My Best Columbia Surgery Cartoon Caption Contest Entries of 2015
Another caption contest? The last thing I need, I told myself, is to start documenting a third cartoon caption contest. I'm already reporting on the New Yorker's challenging weekly contest and on...
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My Best New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Entries of 2015
After almost three years of trying my hand at composing captions, it's pretty clear that I don't yet have what it takes to succeed in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest. Since none of my captions...
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The Best Attempted Bloggery Posts of 2015
Can you keep a secret? Well, I don't really know if these are absolutely my best blog posts of 2015, but they are my favorites. For each example you can go directly to the entire post by following the...
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The Attempted Bloggery Link Index 2015
Do you know what's on this blog? Are you looking for a certain blog post? Just in time for 2016, here is the latest version of the Attempted Bloggery link index. See if you missed anything.The...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #503
Here is my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #503 for December 21, 2015. The drawing is by Joe Dator."We say payback's a Grinch!"My second-jolliest caption:"It's the latest service from...
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The Missing 1,800 Twitter Followers
By January 16, 2015, I had reached 1071 Twitter followers and I set myself an admittedly ambitious goal.My Twitter Stats as of January 16, 2015This goal was that I would add about ten followers each...
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And What Brings You Here?
I'm always fascinated by what keyword searches bring readers to this blog. I'm delighted that over the past week Google sent people my way who were interested in the work of Saul Steinberg, Charles...
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License Plate if the Force is with You
I just glimpsed this license plate before the car went into hyperdrive."WOOKIE"Note: The sad truth is I have no previous posts about Star Wars, but I have a lot about license plates.01736
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Absolut New Yorker Cartoonists
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the memorable Absolut Vodka Cartoon Contest in the New Yorker. Since the early 1980's, countless talented artists have contributed to a series of remarkable ads...
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William Hamilton Absolut Presentation
Original artwork by William Hamilton was presented on May 5, 1993 to Michel Roux, then President and CEO of Carillon Importers, Ltd. whose products include Absolut Vodka. Roux is seated at the table....
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