Every writer and indeed every illustrator who writes gags has had to deal with editors, but only Richard Taylor has seemingly solved the problem of the perfect author-editor relationship. Or has he?
Here is his original 1952 artwork for the New Yorker, as recently sold on eBay. Note that in Taylor's original caption, the monks "have established a perfect author-editor relationship" while the published version in the New Yorker has monks who merely "have a wonderful author-editor relationship." In other words, the New Yorker's editors couldn't resist tinkering with a caption even about the author-editor relationship.
It isn't supposed to happen, but sometimes the winning bidder can't or won't complete an eBay transaction for whatever reason. The original winning bid of $810 evidently proved problematic for the buyer, so the item was sold a few days later to the underbidder dnbuch23 with the Buy It Now feature for his top bid of $800.
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| Richard Taylor, "They have established a perfect author-editor relationship." Original artwork for The New Yorker, March 8, 1952, p. 25 |
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| Richard Taylor, "They have established a perfect author-editor relationship." Original artwork for The New Yorker, March 8, 1952, p. 25 |
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| R. Taylor's Perfect Author-Editor Relationship, eBay Winning Bid, June 11, 2012 |
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| R. Taylor's Perfect Author-Editor Relationship, eBay Buy It Now Winning Bid, June 16, 2012 |
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| R. Taylor's Perfect Author-Editor Relationship, eBay Item Description |
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| R. Taylor's Perfect Author-Editor Relationship, eBay Bid History, June 11, 2012 |
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| R. Taylor's Perfect Author-Editor Relationship, eBay Bid History, June 16, 2012 |
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| Richard Taylor, "They have a wonderful author-editor relationship." The New Yorker, March 8, 1952, p. 25 |
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| Richard Taylor, "They have a wonderful author-editor relationship." The New Yorker, March 8, 1952, p. 25 |
Note: My last post on Richard Taylor answers all my repressed birthday wishes and can be found here.
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