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Begging at the Table: Garrett Price Original New Yorker Cover Art
The experts say it's never a good idea to feed a dog begging for table scraps. But then, how can you not? As life was getting back to normal in the Post-War period, Garrett Price created a sunny and...
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A Pointer from Garrett Price
A drawing by Garrett Price shows up on eBay cheaply-framed and without any matting. Two hunters approach a dog pointing to his rear. This appears to be a cartoon missing its caption. An eBay seller...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #565
Here is my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #565 for April 17, 2017. The drawing is by P. C. Vey."They've repealed and replaced the social contract."These captions weren't quite up to...
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Dancers: Etchings by Garrett Price
Six rarely-seen etchings of dancers by Garrett Price, two of them duplicates, were sold in February by Rachel Davis Fine Arts. The price: $30.DancersEtchings by Garrett PriceGarrett Price pencil...
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The Play at the Plate: Garrett Price Original New Yorker Cover Art
Garrett Price, original art, The New Yorker, August 27, 1949Yet another eBay seller apparently cannot distinguish original magazine cover art from a print. Surely this New Yorker magazine baseball...
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Ticker Tape Parade: Garrett Price Proposed New Yorker Cover Art
Garrett Price doesn't spare the paint in an attempt to capture the dizzying effect of a ticker tape parade in New York City's Canyon of Heroes. His technique has produced an impressive cover proposal...
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Expressionistic St. Nick: Garrett Price Proposed New Yorker Cover Art
Garrett Price's unconventional cover proposal for the New Yorker presents a Santa Claus with modernist elements of Fauvism and German Expressionism. Perhaps it's reminiscent of the style of Franz Marc....
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Color Separation: Garrett Price Proposed New Yorker Cover Art
Garrett Price's illustrated concept of a color separation may not have gone on to become a New Yorker cover, but it's a good demonstration of the kind of creative ferment that went on at the magazine....
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An Unconventional Convention: Garrett Price Proposed New Yorker Cover Art
Can a proposed New Yorker cover be a little too ambitious? Garrett Price depicted familiar scenes from a political convention in a variety of artistic styles and placed them on the spiraling walls of...
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Email We Never Finished Reading: You're Approved...
Back in the day, the New Yorker used to run Newsbreaks to fill out columns of text. These short pieces would having recurring titles like Letters We Never Finished Reading. In that spirit, here's an...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #566
Avast, ye landlubbers! Here be me entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #566 for April 24, 2017. The drawing be rendered by Mick Stevens."I never expected a happy ending."Note:Â Last week,...
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The New Yorker and Bob Mankoff Rethink Cartoons, 1997
Twenty years ago, Bob Mankoff was named cartoon editor of the New Yorker. The New York Times business section covered it as "Tradition on Trial As New Yorker Rethinks Cartoons." This week, Mr. Mankoff...
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Rea Irvin's Wry Spirit, 1996
A 1996 exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York provided a showcase for the artwork of Rea Irvin, the New Yorker's founding art supervisor. He, of course, was the creator of Eustace Tilley, the...
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Ben Yagoda Reviews Lee Lorenz, 1995
Ben Yagoda is the author of About Town:  The New Yorker and the World It Made (New York: Scribner, 2000). In 1995, while he was working on the book, he reviewed The Art of The New Yorker, 1925-1995,...
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Modern Cartoonists Fight to Keep Pace with Changing Times, 1972
"Now [James Geraghty's] talking about retiring, but is holding off because nobody has been found to replace him."The Washington Post news serviceThe Geneva Times, August 2, 1972It was the end of an...
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The New Yorker Book of Golf Cartoons Signed by Bob Mankoff with a Drawing
The New Yorker's departing cartoon editor Bob Mankoff has probably signed more New Yorker books than anyone in history. Sometimes he adds a drawing too. He might even hold the record there as...
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Bob Mankoff: What Women Want
Before Bob Mankoff was the New Yorker's cartoon editor, he had a two-decade career cartooning for the magazine. Here's a great example of his art from 1990, selling, it would seem, for a song.Bob...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #567
Curl up under the covers with my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #567 for May 1, 2017. The drawing is by Jeremy Nguyen."The last thing I remember is taking an Ambien."Throwaways:"Aren't...
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My Entries in the Moment Cartoon Caption Contest for March/April 2017
If the Moment Cartoon Caption Contest is foolish enough to allow multiple entries, does that mean I should be foolish enough to submit eleven? The drawing for March/April 2017 is by Benjamin Schwartz....
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