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Mary Astor's Purple Diary Signed by Edward Sorel
Last month I attended a book launch event at the Corner Bookstore in Manhattan for Mary Astor's Purple Diary by Edward Sorel. Mr. Sorel related the story of Mary Astor and how he learned of her...
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The New Yorker and the New President
On Wednesday November 9, the day after Election Day, The New Yorker's editor David Remnick wrote online of Donald Trump's election:The election of Donald Trump to the Presidency is nothing less than a...
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Peter Arno Art for Air-India
In September an eBay seller offered an original cartoon by Peter Arno with an opening bid of only $100 or a Buy It Now price of $300. The only information given in the description is "Humorous New...
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Peter Arno: Wedding Belle
A just-married couple make their way down the church steps as the groom expresses a timely apprehension to his new bride. This setting is so familiar to all of us, but Peter Arno's deft touch makes...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #545
The minutes of the meeting contain my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #545 for November 14, 2016. The drawing is by Paul Noth."Our new C.E.O. was just congratulated by Vladimir...
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Peter Arno: Once a Year~The Mid
The stag at eve had drunk his fill,Where danced the moon on Monan’s rill,And deep his midnight lair had madeIn lone Glenartney’s hazel shade;But, when the sun his beacon redHad kindled on Benvoirlich’s...
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eBay 101: Here is New York by E. B. White
When selling a book on eBay, the item description should correspond to the book. An eBay auction from August offered a copy of E. B. White's Here is New York while mistakenly describing a signed first...
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Masterpiece Mini-Comics Signed by R. Sikoryak
The MoCCA Arts Festival, or MoCCA Fest, was held this year on April 2nd and 3rd at a new venue, Metropolitan West, not far from the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. On the second day I had barely...
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Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads Signed Print by Nick Hayes
"We are all Woody's children." —Pete SeegerIn 2016 as in previous years, MoCCA Fest was largely a venue for independent comic artists, but there were also some big publishing...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #546,
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #546 for November 21, 2016. The drawing is by Michael Maslin."Boy, have they got your...
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2016 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon Inflation
Preparing for the 2016 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the balloons are inflated the evening before. Here's the action on E. 81st Street.Overhead view looking east toward Central Park with Trolls,...
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Groo: Friends and Foes, Volume I with Bookplate Signed by Sergio Aragonés
At MoCCA Fest this past April I stopped by the table of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, always a good source for books I didn't know I needed to have. I'm not too familiar with the character Groo,...
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Funny Ladies Signed by Liza Donnelly
The cover of Liza Donnelly'sFunny Ladies: The New Yorker's Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons (2005) depicts a half dozen female cartoonists dressed as The New Yorker's mascot Eustace...
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The Jew of New York Signed by Ben Katchor
At the MoCCA Arts Festival held in April of 2016, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) offered a copy of Ben Katchor'sThe Jew of New York (1999) signed by the artist with a rudimentary drawing of...
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Character Sketches in Ben Katchor's The Jew of New York
Yesterday I shared my copy of Ben Katchor's The Jew of New York (1998) signed by the artist with a small drawing of a folded ticket. It had been signed at the Alternative Press Expo in 2012 for the...
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Amadeo & Maladeo Signed by R. O. Blechman
I finally got to meet R. O. Blechman at the MoCCA Arts Festival in April. He signed a copy of his new book Amadeo & Maladeo and made a small drawing.Book Signing at MoCCA Arts Festival 2016R. O....
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George Sprott (1894-1975) with a Bookplate Signed by Seth
I don't really like signed bookplates. No matter how well done, they're evidence that a book's author never came into contact with the particular copy of the book you're looking at. Still, while...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #547
Here is my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #547 for November 28, 2016. The drawing is by Frank Cotham."I'm a sucker for parades."What was I thinking? I had a few other ideas..."She's...
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James Stevenson: Taking Commercialism Out of Christmas
Edward S. Finkelstein, the fabled merchant and one-time president of Macy's New York, passed away in late May of 2014. He owned a large work of original New Yorker cartoon art by James Stevenson...
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Christmas at the New Yorker Signed by John Updike
John Updike (1932-2009) wrote the foreword to Christmas at The New Yorker, a 2003 collection of art, prose, and poetry from the magazine. A copy signed by the celebrated author was offered at $120 on...
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