In the eBay listing for his original New Yorker cartoon published in the issue of April 9, 2018, Joe Dator provides all the vital information, leaving a blogger nothing to do but copy it and try to come up with a creative title for the post. But, wait! The cartoonist reports in full not only the original caption, but he has given his cartoon an additional title as well: Pull Cord. What else could there be to say?
Well, there is one more thing. The Citigroup Center, formerly the Citicorp Center, is visible in the background, notable for the 45 degree slant of its roof. That roof faces south—it was at one time going to have solar panels—which means we are looking north up Third Avenue and therefore the sightseeing bus is headed west somewhere around 49th Street. As these buses generally travel on the avenues, the skyline here is probably just meant to indicate "somewhere in midtown."
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| A cartoon by Joe Dator and a baseball spot by Alain Pilon |
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| Joe Dator eBay listing ended January 8, 2022 |
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| Joe Dator eBay item description |
Note: The New Yorker covered the story of the Citicorp Center's potentially calamitous engineering flaws in the issue of May 29, 1995.
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| https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/1995-05-29/flipbook/044/ |
Joe Dator points out to me that the title Pull Cord, which I dutifully applied to this post, doesn't refer to this cartoon at all but to one published in The New Yorker of December 4, 2017. Fortunately for me, I did not archive that auction so I won't have to come up with a new title for it.
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Pull cord in case of sudden awareness that the person nest to you is facing you Joe Dator The New Yorker, December 4, 2017, p. 40 |
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| Baseball spot by Alain Pilon Image added August 7, 2022 |
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