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Remembering James Thurber
American humorist James Thurber was born on December 8, 1894 and died on this date in 1961. Here are three obituaries dating from the days after his passing. The authors are writer Lewis Gannett,...
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Dreamcatcher: Otto Soglow in College Humor, August 1937
Otto Soglow's cartoon for College Humor's issue of August 1937 depicts the sort of dream which must have been familiar to many of the magazine's youthful male readers. It also features a novel sort of...
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Tilting at Windmills: George Booth Proposed New Yorker Cover Art
Four New Yorker magazine cover pitches by George Booth are under glass together at the Society of Illustrators, part of the current exhibition "George Booth—A Cartoonist's Life" curated by J. J....
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Cat Got Your Tail?—George Booth Proposed New Yorker Cover Art
One of the joys of the current exhibition "George Booth—A Cartoonist's Life" at the Society of Illustrators is being able to see a handful of George Booth's magazine cover proposals for The New Yorker....
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #591—Almost
I didn't get to make my usual last-minute submission to the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #591 for November 6, 2017 because the contest ended an hour early. Someone at the New Yorker forgot to...
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The Art of the Polling Place: Garrett Price Proposed New Yorker Cover Art
Garrett Price's proposed New Yorker covers demonstrate his facility for incorporating widely-differing artistic styles, and that extends to the art of schoolchildren. On Election Day, voting booths are...
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Bork! The Onomatopoetic George Booth
Two sequential gags—one in five panels and another in six—share a frame in the show "George Booth—A Cartoonist's Life" now on view at the Society of Illustrators. The exhibition is curated by animator...
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Pop Art: Garrett Price Proposed New Yorker Cover Art
A New Yorker magazine cover proposal by Garrett Price follows a contemporary art movement downstream into art school. The widespread appropriation of comic book and comic strip characters onto the...
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John Held, Jr.: The Yale-Princeton Football Game
Tomorrow the Princeton-Yale football rivalry begun in 1873 continues at Princeton. For me, the graphic high point of this rivalry came in 1927 when John Held, Jr. illustrated the cover for the program....
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You Can't Spell America Without ME, Signed
Obtained at a book signing on Friday, here's a brand spanking new copy of You Can't Spell America Without ME: The Really Tremendous Inside Story of My Fantastic First Year as President Donald J....
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A First Edition of P. G. Wodehouse's Eggs, Beans and Crumpets
Eggs, Beans and Crumpets—which of these might you be? A 1940 first edition of Wodehouse's humorous short story collection is not in the best condition, but it still sells for a song.P. G. WodehouseeBay...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #592
Here is my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #592 for November 13, 2017. The drawing is by Mick Stevens."There's not a Shakespeare in the flock."Or maybe I should have gone with one of...
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Otto Soglow: It's the Law! by Dick Hyman
It's the Law! was a regular feature that ran in The American Magazine from 1934 to 1956. The series recounted some of the riduculous laws that remained on the books around the country. Written by Dick...
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The Punning Otto Soglow
For the May 1948 issue of The American Magazine, cartoonist Otto Soglow ventured into the fraught world of animal puns. In point of fact, the cartoon gives us not one pun, but two. We don't get to see...
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James Thurber: Marriages Are Made in Heaven
James Thurber, noting that "Marriages Are Made in Heaven," makes an appropriately celestial drawing on stationery of the École des Beaux-Arts. The composition and the figures are delightful, but note...
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Otto Soglow: Staying Dry
It's January 1931, but you can be forgiven if you don't recognize that the Great Depression is upon us from this Judge cartoon by Otto Soglow. At least we know the importance during Prohibition of...
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A Chicken in Almost Every Pot: Otto Soglow's New Deal
A series of magazine covers done by cartoonist Otto Soglow for Judge in 1938 offers some insights on how Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal was embraced by the press. The covers are all intensely...
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Follow the Fold: Otto Soglow in College Humor, July 1937
Cartoonist Otto Soglow's bank teller gets religion in four panels as seen in the July 1937 issue of College Humor. We know quite a lot about this teller: his name is Mr. MacIntosh, he works for the...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #593
I took a stab at entering The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #593 for November 20, 2017. The drawing is by Tom Cheney."I did receive your demands but I haven'tgotten around to them."These captions...
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A Powerful Dream: Otto Soglow in College Humor, September 1937
A man asleep in bed dreams up some increasingly incredible feats of strength. But how will he feel by the morning? In this full-page cartoon from the September 1937 issue of College Humor, cartoonist...
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