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Gregory d'Alessio: Mocking the Third Reich
If wartime despots have one thing in common, it's a disregard for the well-being of those they command. American illustrator Gregory d'Alessio does his patriotic duty in this cartoon from the second...
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Gregory d'Alessio: Classical Guitarist
In 1946, illustrator Gregory d'Alessio helped found the Society of the Classic Guitar. His drawing of a classical guitarist dates from that year and reflects one of the artist's passions. A veteran of...
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Gregory d'Alessio for Collier's: The Family Gadabout
In 1950 America was enjoying a new postwar prosperity. At the boat show, there may still be a wealthy few shopping for yachts, but the sales are now directed toward the many young families interested...
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George Price: The Original Amateur Hour
By 1968, Ted Mack had been a television host for 21 years, a run simply unheard of at the time. His television show, "The Original Amateur Hour," then the world's longest-running TV show, brought a...
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Blog Post No. 2300: Peter Arno—Not for Attribution
In the art world, an attribution is an assertion of authorship made on the basis of considerable expertise. In the absence of direct evidence about who created a given work, attribution allows one to...
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Art Spiegelman Against All the Odds
Art Spiegelman has personalized a copy of his 2004 book In the Shadow of No Towers and included the salient words "All the best against all the odds!" The strange character in the drawing is "a Hapless...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #583
Who'll stand for my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #583 dated September 11, 2017? The drawing is by Teresa Burns Parkhurst."Who says corporations can't show restraint?"These captions...
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Art Spiegelman's Puppy Love
A signed and inscribed copy of Open Me... I'm a Dog! (1997) by Art Spiegelman includes an adorable drawing of—what else?—a dog. Spiegelman no doubt would dismiss this as mere "Cuteness 4 Kids" but I'm...
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A Maus in Profile: Art Spiegelman's Comix, Essays, Graphics and Scraps
A copy of Art Spiegelman's scarce Comix, Essays, Graphics and Scraps (1999) is personalized with an original drawing of his Maus in profile. It's simple and delicate.Inscribed with a drawing of his...
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Art Spiegelman's Wild Party Brew
Joseph Moncure March'sThe Wild Party dates from 1928 and an illustrated version by Art Spiegelman was published in 1999. A personalized copy of the book bears a pencil drawing of what may well be a...
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Art Spiegelman: The Ink and Paste Club
The original edition of Art Spiegelman'sBreakdowns was published in 1977 a bit before he found himself catapulted into the mainstream. The Maus in the subtitle refers to a beautifully-rendered but...
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Oy Vey from Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman has signed and inscribed a copy of the first volume of Maus (1986) under the epigraph, an antisemitic quotation of Hitler's. Spiegelman's reaction, appropriately, begins with "Oy vey," a...
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Art Spiegelman: Cut and Pasted
For the copy of Maus II (1992) in the library of collage artist Stephen Kroninger and his wife Aviva, Art Spiegelman created a unique studio illustration. The striking figure of Art as a Jewish maus...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #584
Is it worth repeating my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #584 dated September 18, 2017? Is it worth repeating my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #584 dated September 18,...
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Books Signed by Helen E. Hokinson and Charles Saxon
In a recent eBay listing, copies of the cartoon collections When Were You Built? (1948) by Helen E. Hokinson and "Oh, Happy, Happy, Happy!" (1980) by Charles Saxon were offered at auction in far from...
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Books Signed by Peter Arno, William Steig, and Chris Jensen
A somewhat unlikely trio of signed cartoon books were sold together—nearly given away—on eBay in June. Two are by classic New Yorker artists Peter Arno and William Steig, and one is by Chris Jensen....
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Books Signed by Abner Dean and Peter Arno
Two books signed by New Yorker cartoonists were sold together on eBay in June. Come As You Are: A book about people at parties is a 1952 first edition inscribed by Abner Dean. Dean is not so well...
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Country Signs of Autumn: Barbara Shermund Proposed New Yorker Cover Art
Tourists flock to the country every autumn to experience the abundance of fall colors. Barbara Shermund's undated cover proposal for the New Yorker celebrates these colors and some of the signs that...
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The Rube Goldberg Plan for the Post-War World
After World War II, the United States provided massive aid to Western Europe through the Marshall Plan. Perhaps you've heard of it. But have you heard of an earlier plan, specifically The Rube Goldberg...
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Creature Comforts Signed by Charles Addams
Charles Addams created the artwork for the 1981 New Yorker Valentine's Day cover. Later that year, he made it the cover for his cartoon collection Creature Comforts.Charles Addams, The New Yorker,...
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