Attempted Bloggery: Joseph Farris, Sam Gross, Mischa Richter, Claude Smith, and James Stevenson: From the Collection of Paul P. Goldberg

A group of twenty cartoons from the Paul P. Goldberg collection of autograph drawings, signed, is apparently arranged by date. The postal cards sent through the mail in 1967 during the Johnson Era have an assortment of cartoonists that apparently mean nothing to the eBay seller. But at least two notable political cartoonists are there, Pat Oliphant and Don Wright. Oliphant has drawn his ubiquitous penguin Punk. Wright is one of three artists in the grouping to draw LBJ.

There are also no fewer than five New Yorker cartoonists in the mix as well, although one of them, the now legendary Sam Gross, was not to have his first appearance in the magazine until two years later, in 1969. Here the young cartoonist portrays himself smoking a cigar while drawing. He's smiling; there's not yet a scowl in sight. The New Yorker's Joseph Farris, who was to draw men wearing fedoras long after it stopped being commonplace, here draws an ungroomed and bare-headed prophet carrying a sign. Also carrying a sign is Claude Smith's marching self-portrait. His signature, as always, is his first name only. Mischa Richter raises his hat; in the James Stevenson drawing, the hat stays squarely on the head.