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A Ballerina's Shadows: Donald Higgins Proposed New Yorker Cover Art
Donald Higgins published five New Yorker covers over the course of his career. All of them are scenes in very low light, the brightest being a predawn view of the rowboats on Central Park Lake. The...
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Ziegfeld Legs: Larry Whittington Proposed New Yorker Cover Art
Cartoonist Larry Whittington never made it into the New Yorker. A cover proposal of his displays women's legs, beach blankets, and the summer sun. Of note, Whittington's sister Marjorie was a...
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Seen and Noted: A Note from Charles Addams
This note from Charles Addams on the New Yorker's letterhead was folded, unfortunately, over the signature, most likely by the cartoonist himself.Charles AddamseBay Listing Ended January 30, 2017...
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Art Young's Trees at Night
The April-May 1944 issue of Direction bills itself as the Art Young Issue. An article by Gilbert Wilson looks at the artist's Trees at Night.Art YoungeBay Listing as of December 6,...
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Art Young: His Life and Times
Art Young inscribed this copy of Art Young: His Life and Times (1939) to one Ethel Clyde. He also included a note dated 1940 with a drawing of a rising sun and a more elaborate inscription.Book...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #578
Make way for my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #578 for July 31, 2017! The drawing is by Tom Cheney."More fake news."I also pursued these two captions:"The paparazzi are on to Paolo's...
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A Photograph of Art Young
Today is the publication date of To Laugh That We May Not Weep: The Life and Times of Art Young. A modern scanned print of his press photo from the Bain News Service, c. 1910-1915, shows the artist in...
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Donald Trump's 2005 Sketch for Pushing the Envelope to Support Literacy
An original 2005 sketch by Donald Trump features Trump Tower as a prominent landmark in the New York City skyline. The boldly-signed drawing's sale last week was picked up the news media and helped to...
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A Signed Copy of Gary Panter's Songy of Paradise
Gary Panter has been promoting his new book Songy of Paradise (Fantagraphics, 2017). A copy recently inscribed by him contains an original drawing to boot.Gary Panter,Songy of Paradise, 2017Signed and...
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A Signed Copy of Emily Flake's Mama Tried from the Brooklyn Book Festival
And I turned twenty-one in prison doing life without parole.No one could steer me right but Mama tried, Mama tried.Mama tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied.That leaves only me to blame...
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A Signed Copy of Glen Baxter's Almost Completely Baxter from the Brooklyn...
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #454545} Glen Baxter appeared last fall at the Brooklyn Book Festival to promote his new collection Almost Completely Baxter. He...
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A Signed Copy of Out of Line: The Art of Jules Feiffer
From a book signing, a copy of Out of Line: The Art of Jules Feiffer (2015) has signatures of Jules Feiffer, the book's subject; Martha Fay, the author; and Leonard S. Marcus, the author of the...
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The Unapologetic Mischa Richter
An example of original cartoon art published in The New Yorker shows that, unlike certain unnamed Administration figures, at least cartoonist Mischa Richter has nothing to apologize for."And today in...
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Gender-Specific Mischa Richter
In 1993, the New Yorker ran a cartoon by Mischa Richter on the subject of gender specificity, at least as it relates to clothing. One notable 1990 exception by Ed Koren aside, gender issues just didn't...
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Mischa Richter's China Shop
A pencil rough by cartoonist Mischa Richter demonstrates the loose, sketchy form in which he submitted ideas to publishers such as the New Yorker."I've often dreamed of opening a smallchina shop in...
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Ronald Searle's China Shop
In 1977, Ronald Searle published Zoodiac, a series of full-color illustrations, a different animal appearing on two facing pages for each sign of the zodiac. The illustrations were all created...
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Quite a Kick from Mischa Richter
An early cartoon by Mischa Richter from Collier's shows a bar patron's preposterously-exaggerated reaction to the house special. Note that another man's drink has been knocked over. The three faces to...
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Mischa Richter: Live from New York...
A quarter-century ago, Mischa Richter showed he understood the aspirations of a budding young performer. Today, the sentiment expressed in this cartoon might be even more widespread. The original art...
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Mischa Richter: In the Court of Public Opinion
Never mind the courts! A cartoon by Mischa Richter from 1995 mocks the fact that legal cases are "tried" in the court of public opinion on the afternoon talk shows. "The Sally Jessy Raphael Show,"...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #579
God save the King! And my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #579 for August 7, 2017. The drawing is by Carolita Johnson."Well, Rex and I don't think all pampering is spoiling."Note: Last...
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