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E. Simms Campbell: "I Used to Know Her..."
E. Simms Campbell's color cartoon for what is apparently Esquire's September 1936 issue follows some interesting conventions. The bathing beauty at the center of the image is given an attractive body,...
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E. Simms Campbell and Dorothy McKay: Eight Cartoons from Esquire
A group of five color cartoons by E. Simms Campbell torn from copies of Esquire in the 1930s are listed together on eBay. As luck would have it, on the back of three of these are cartoons by Dorothy...
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Vintage Esquire Cartoons: Shall We Join the Ladies?
It is missing its cover, so there is no date and no title—even the staples are missing—but the cartoons in a small cartoon sampler from Esquire presented on eBay are thankfully intact. The pamphlet...
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E. Simms Campbell: The Cigarette Trade
Original "Harem Girls" cartoon art by E. Simms Campbell from the August 1945 issue of Esquire was sold in December on eBay for an undisclosed Best Offer less than $825. Ten years earlier, it had been...
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E. Simms Campbell: Twofers?
...it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance...—Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 3That, of course, is the Porter elucidating the effects of drink. The reveler in E. Simms Campbell's original...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #606
Fly the friendly skies of my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #606 for March 5, 2018. The drawing is by Benjamin Schwartz."Isn't that what Lyft is for?"These captions would not...
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E. Simms Campbell: Joe Louis Reigns Forever
Joe Lewis (1914-1981) became the world heavyweight boxing champion in 1937, a title he was to hold for an astonishing 13 years. He was only 27 years old in 1941 when a cartoon published in Esquire by...
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E. Simms Campbell in Black and White: Esquire Cartoons from 1935
African-American cartoonist E. Simms Campbell created as many as four full page black and white cartoons in each issue of Esquire aside from his well-known color work. His specialty was beautiful...
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E. Simms Campbell in Esquire, October 1953
Men of all sizes, shapes, ages, and incomes are rendered helpless before the beautiful women of cartoonist E. Simms Campbell. Two full-page cartoons from the October 1953 issue of Esquire show the...
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License Plate for a Mutts Fan
Yesh indeed."YESH"New York State license plateMutts by Patrick McDonnell featuring MoochMay 20, 2010https://shop.mutts.com/product/all/strips/Strip-052010/Quick Links to the Attempted Bloggery...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #607
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here to read my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #607 for March 12, 2018. The drawing is by Christopher Weyant."In your eulogy, don't mention his deadpan...
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E. Simms Campbell and Jean Gabriel Domergue in Esquire, August 1939
E. Simms Campbell takes a break from his usual cartoons of attractive women and instead tries to get inside the mind of a dog who has been left alone in the house. This dog's-eye view makes for a nice...
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E. Simms Campbell: A Foolish Expenditure?
One of groundbreaking African-American cartoonist E. Simms Campbell's color pages from the January 1941 issue of Esquire depicts a black boy and girl contemplating a jewelry store's window display. The...
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Seven Out of Time
The December 1941 issue of Esquire features a portfolio of cartoons featuring temporally-displaced historical figures entitled Seven Out of Time. The collection is described as "a portfolio of modern...
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Chuck Miller: Green Reminder
Here's a timely, last-minute reminder provided via some original Playboy cartoon art by Chuck Miller published in the February 1962 issue. As a public service, Attempted Bloggery would like to remind...
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E. Simms Campbell: Unfinished Business
A postcard-sized black and white glossy photograph of a cartoon by E. Simms Campbell was found, we are told by an eBay seller, in a seaman's 1936-1937 photo album. The cartoon was likely published in...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #608
Sing along with my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #608 for March 19, 2018. The drawing is by Drew Dernavich."We're looking for airy and light, not hot and steamy."These captions were...
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Ronald Searle: The Interloper
Everyone welcomes the spring, right? Ronald Searle'sThe Interloper suggests that some of us would rather not have to deal with it, or indeed with nature. The extraordinary original artwork for the...
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E. Simms Campbell: Elephant Caravan
A 1957 cartoon by E. Simms Campbell presumably published in Playboy shows his popular "Harem Girls" teasing the reader with their casual nudity and languid inactivity. Campbell excels at ambitious...
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E. Simms Campbell: Basic Exercises
In 1948, Esquire published six panels entitled Basic Exercises by artist E. Simms Campbell. Purportedly demonstrating a series of skiing exercises, they present a blonde model wearing a violet leotard...
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