The Unread P. C. Vey

Back in 2012, I attended a cartoon art auction at the Morton Memorial Library in Rhinecliff. There I photographed an original cartoon by P. C. Vey which was up on the auction block. At the time I believed it to be unpublished.

"You may not want to read this book but you'll certainly want others to think you've read it."
P. C. Vey
Original art
Barron's

But today the cartoon is listed on CartoonStock as having been published in Barron's. Good for them. Almost certainly, it was first offered to The New Yorker and, for whatever reason, not accepted.

https://www.cartoonstock.com/cartoon?searchID=BA500103

Most New Yorker readers, including this blogger, probably share some degree of regret in not wanting to read everything that we should, and in not being able to read everything that we want. In this week's magazine, we learn that Vey gave The New Yorker a second chance at celebrating the unread book. This time, happily, the magazine's editors did not demur.

A spot drawing by Peter Oumanski and a cartoon by P. C. Vey

https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/2022-03-21/flipbook/24/

Note:  P. C. Vey's work has not been collected in book form, so there's nothing there to avoid reading.

You can still leave unread my 2012 account of the "Art Auction for Morton." It is enshrined in the archives here.

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