Attempted Bloggery: Ed Arno and Warren Miller, et al., From the Collection of Paul P. Goldberg

Friday, February 16, 2024

Ed Arno and Warren Miller, et al., From the Collection of Paul P. Goldberg

One has to admire the zeal of collector Paul P. Goldberg, who sent out hundreds of self-addressed blank postal cards to a great many of the cartoonists of his day. The present set of twenty date from the years 1966 to 1974, a time when Goldberg moved from Philadelphia to Plymouth Meeting. There are two New Yorker names here. Ed Arno's drawing may or may not predate his first appearance in the magazine in 1969, which was permitted only after the passing of his near-namesake Peter Arno in 1968. Warren Miller is represented as well with a bold and bearded self-portrait.

Well-known panel cartoonists Lawrence Lariar and George Dole are included; neither ever had their work appear in The New Yorker. Jean-Claude Suares, the first art director of The New York Times's Op-Ed page, has drawn his nose as a pen nib much as Arnold Roth did elsewhere in the Goldberg collection. One wonders, with this assortment of talented cartoonists, what proportion of the sale price of $135.50 owes to the presence of Brad Anderson's big dog Marmaduke.