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A Lee Lorenz Self-Portrait
A signed card from cartoonist Lee Lorenz includes a drawing that is likely a self-portrait.Inscribed "Best wishes to John Stackhouse/Lee Lorenz"eBay Listing Ended July 12,...
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Today's Benchmarks
Today's walk took us to the Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park Trail.Melting snowHonk if you love geese Golf course bridgeAttempted Bloggery's quick links:PrincetonAttempted Bloggery's Peripatetic...
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Lee Lorenz: The Post-Super Bowl Syndrome
Gentlemen, have you noticed that we feel a certain emptiness in our lives now that the football season has ended? Ladies, does a character in Lee Lorenz's original cartoon art have the guys all figured...
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Lee Lorenz: A Suggestion for Robin Hood
Robin Hood may be a skilled archer but he and his Merry Men don't have much of a business plan. Cartoonist Lee Lorenz has a character propose an alternative."Why can't we rob the rich and give to the...
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Blog Post No. 2100: Eustace Tilley in Leotards
It's ninety-two years ago this week that Eustace Tilley made his debut on the newsstand. As yet unnamed, Rea Irvin's cover creation must have either delighted or confounded readers who encountered this...
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The New Yorker Prospectus
THE NEW YORKER will be a reflection in word and picture of metropolitan life. It will be human. Its general tenor will be one of gaiety, wit and satire, but it will be more than a jester. It will be...
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Richard Merkin: The New Yorker's 1993 Anniversary
The New Yorker's 1993 anniversary party was held on February 18th at the Manhattan Center on West 43rd St. Art for the invitation was commissioned from Richard Merkin, who imagined it as a festive...
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Edward Sorel: Presidential Portraits
Edward Sorel delivers the goods: caricatures of some Presidents who appear on American currency. That's a thoughtful George Washington from the one, Andrew Jackson from the twenty, and Abraham Lincoln...
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Barney Tobey: George Washington Stopped Here
An old cliche is that every place George Washington ever stayed or ate or slept had a sign commemorating that momentous event. Cartoonist Barney Tobey takes a look at whether such historical markers...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #557
It's time to serve up my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #557 for February 13, 2017. The drawing is by Harry Bliss."Wait a minute—like WHOSE mother used to make?"Note: Last time,...
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James Stevenson: Unease with the Office of the President
Original artwork for the July 8, 1961 New Yorker shows how the late James Stevenson (1929-2017) extensively reworked his gag in preparation for publication. We can see the meticulous cutting and...
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James Stevenson at the Opera
In the setting of Verdi's Aida, the grandest of grand operas, the late James Stevenson proposed an age-old question about composition. In this cartoon rough, the particular opera can be readily...
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James Stevenson's Windfall
Two original cartoons by the late James Stevenson (1929-2017) were shown at the Westport Historical Society on April 25, 2014 in conjunction with the exhibition "Cover Story: The New Yorker in...
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James Stevenson: Morning Reprieve
The second original cartoon by the late James Stevenson (1929-2017) shown at the Westport Historical Society on April 25, 2014 during the exhibition "Cover Story: The New Yorker in Westport" presents a...
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Fun with James Stevenson
A cartoon for the New Yorker's January 5, 1987 issue exemplifies the best qualities that the late James Stevenson (1929-2017) brought to the art form. Here there are exquisite subtleties in tone and...
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My Entries in the Moment Cartoon Caption Contest for January/February 2017
Here's hoping my entries in the Moment Cartoon Caption Contest for January/February 2017 don't get a chilly reception. Moment Magazine calls itself "North America’s premier Jewish magazine," so I took...
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James Stevenson: Introductions
The needless proliferation of wait staff is the subject of a 1983 New Yorker cartoon by the late James Stevenson (1929-2017) that comes absurdly close to reality. The long caption doesn't lead to a...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #558
Don't neglect my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #558 for February 27, 2017. Everyone thinks the magazine is looking for urbane, sophisticated humor, so I went with a potty joke. The...
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Bumming a Greeting from James Stevenson
One of the late James Stevenson's stock characters, an unshaven tramp, offers a friendly wave of greeting in a presentation copy of Let's Boogie! The New Yorker cartoonist's collection was signed and...
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