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James Thurber Unable to Meet the Demand
The Years with Ross,James Thurber's memoir about the New Yorker's founding editor Harold Ross (1892-1951), was published in 1957. Two years later, the 64-year-old Thurber declined an interview with...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #535
Here is my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #535 for September 5, 2016. The drawing is by Benjamin Schwartz."Who ever thought SeaWorld would just give them away?"Meanwhile, these...
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Bob Mankoff: New Yorker Cartoons Past, Present & Future
On Thursday evening, New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff came to the Museum of the City of New York to talk about—what else?—New Yorker cartoons. Afterwards the exhibition "Roz Chast: Cartoon...
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Roz Chast: Cartoon Memoirs
The exhibition "Roz Chast: Cartoon Memoirs" was on display at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge from June 6 to October 26, 2015. It is currently on view at the Museum of the City of New York...
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Taking the Twin Towers for Granted
The gargantuan twin towers of the World Trade Center are framed by the stately Washington Square Arch in a New Yorker spot drawing by Tom Funk. The drawing was published in the "Goings on About Town"...
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A Retrospective: Ralph Steadman
I attended the opening reception for "A Retrospective: Ralph Steadman" at the Society of Illustrators on Friday evening. This is a traveling exhibition that started in London's Cartoon Museum. Ralph...
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Signed by Ralph Steadman
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream is the signature work from the collaboration of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson and illustrator Ralph Steadman....
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Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 Signed by Ralph Steadman 1973
Hunter S. Thompson's uniquely incisive coverage of the 1972 Presidential election (Nixon vs. McGovern) was published in installments in Rolling Stone in 1972 and collected in book form in 1973. It is...
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Emergency Mouse Signed by Ralph Steadman
Emergency Mouse is a 1978 story by Bernard Stone with illustrations by Ralph Steadman. A copy of the book signed to Stephen Parr by the illustrator includes a quick portrait sketch of the harried...
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Inspector Mouse Signed by Ralph Steadman
Inspector Mouse by author Bernard Stone and illustrator Ralph Steadman was published in 1980. It is the sequel to Emergency Mouse of 1978. Whether Ralph Steadman made a drawing like the one here only...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #536
Here is my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #536 for September 12, 2016. The drawing is by Benjamin Schwartz."I don't know where you're going with this."While these captions of mine...
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The Third Avenue Street Fair
The Third Avenue Street Fair was held on Sunday, September 11. I don't attend very many of these fairs; they don't usually have anything I'd want to buy. Still, it was one of my last chances to spend...
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My Entries in the Moment Cartoon Caption Contest for July/August 2016
Here are my four entries in the Moment Cartoon Caption Contest for July/August 2016.I submitted a total of four in the July/August 2016 contest. The drawing is by Benjamin Schwartz."Well, how did you...
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Tales of the Weirrd Signed by Ralph Steadman
In 2006, Ralph Steadman inscribed to Stephen Parr a copy of his Tales of the Weirrd (1990), a book about assorted eccentrics which sported its own eccentric title spelling. The artist took care to...
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America Signed by Ralph Steadman
Ralph Steadman'sAmerica (1989) comes with a disclaimer: "What you see in these drawings, of course, is not you Americans. They are only cartoons—not to be taken seriously—disregard them. They are...
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Sigmund Freud Signed by Ralph Steadman
In a personalized copy of Sigmund Freud (1979), Ralph Steadman transforms the first three letters of Freud's illustrated signature into a portrait of everybody's favorite father of psychoanalysis. Go...
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The Joke's Over Signed by Ralph Steadman
The Joke's Over (2006) is Ralph Steadman's tribute to the writer Hunter S. Thompson, his friend who committed suicide in 2005. Thompson, the founder of gonzo journalism, leads his illustrator friend...
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Alice in Wonderland Signed by Ralph Steadman
Ralph Steadman's 1967 illustrations for Lewis Carroll'sAlice in Wonderland are almost fifty years old now, but they were modern classics from day one. A personalized copy of the 2006 paperback edition...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #537
Here is my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #537 for September 19, 2016. The drawing is by Mick Stevens."And I've had to reinvent our marriage."Here are some other captions I simply...
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A Retrospective: Ralph Steadman Signed by Ralph Steadman
Illustrator Stephen Kroninger graciously provides us with these three photographs showing his prized copy of A Retrospective: Ralph Steadman (2016) signed just two weeks ago by the artist at the...
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