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I laughed at the Lorax, "You poor stupid guy! You never can tell what some people will buy." --Dr. Seuss
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"And why do you think you push people away?" |
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"Just keep talking." |
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J. C. Duffy eBay listing ended February 20, 2017 |
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J. C. Duffy eBay bid history A single bid is placed late in the game. |
A six-panel color cartoon by Claude Smith appeared in the February 1958 issue of Playboy. The original art was sold at auction in Brooklyn over the weekend by Antique Arena, Inc. The panels are numbered top to bottom, left to right, and the wordless cartoon must have been printed across two facing magazine pages:
This multi-panel cartoon shows a wealthy, middle-aged man sitting at his swimming pool while hosting a couple of attractive female companions. Over the wall, he observes his neighbor's well-attended pool party and feels compelled to outdo him. It's an example of keeping up with the Joneses while following the supposed Playboy lifestyle. The young women in bathing suits, then, are commodities the men use to compete against each other.Addams had long claimed that he looked like the Addams Family's toothless grinning ghoul, Uncle Fester, "only with more hair."—Linda H. DavisCharles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life (2006, 2021), p. 11
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Charles Addams RR Auction listing of June 26, 2014 |
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Charles Addams RR Auction item description |
Note: Got an original Charles Addams drawing like this one? Send me a picture and I just might post it.
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Published as "Congratulations! It's a baby." Charles Addams Original art The New Yorker, November 9, 1940, p. 21 |
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Published as "Congratulations! It's a baby." Charles Addams Original art The New Yorker, November 9, 1940, p. 21 |
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Charles Addams Heritage Auctions listing of October 6, 2023 |
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"Congratulations! It's a baby." Charles Addams The New Yorker, November 9, 1940, p. 21 |
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Published as "Congratulations! It's a baby." Charles Addams Original art The New Yorker, November 9, 1940, p. 21 |
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With an illustration by Ludwig Bemelmans and a cartoon by Charles Addams |
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Illustration for "The Homesick Busboy of the Splendide." Ludwig Bemelmans The New Yorker, November 9, 1940, p. 20 |
They say that two heads are better than one. But nobody says it better than Charles Addams (1912-1988).
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Charles Addams AbeBooks listing accessed April 20, 2024 |
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Charles Addams AbeBooks item description |
Note: Personalized Charles Addams books can be quite wonderful, but one wonders how many of the ones bearing original drawings will eventually be sacrificed so the images can appear framed on someone's wall. If you've got original Addams art in books or removed from them, framed or unframed, I'd like to post your images right here. Send a scan or two and tell me what you know about them please.
Film critic Jeffrey Lyons is one of four sons of Broadway writer Leonard Lyons.
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A lot gets by me on Instagram. Fortunately, amid the thousands of images in my daily feed, I caught this unassuming one posted on May 20 by cartoonist Liana Finck:
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Regular readers of this blog know how fond I am of books that are signed and personalized by cartoonists, particularly New Yorker cartoonists. I obtained my first signed book from Ms. Finck back at MoCCA Fest 2014. Now here was an opportunity to obtain two new books at once without even having to step out the door. I picked up the phone and placed my order.
The next day, the Community Bookstore called me back. Liana was in the shop signing. How did I want the books personalized? I suppose they thought I'd want it signed to one of the women in my life, but I insisted the author use my own name. After all, who's the baby maven?
How To Baby was just published on April 30. It is billed as "a no-advice-given guide to motherhood, with drawings." Okay, I'm in.
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It's ridiculous for the original of a published New Yorker cartoon to sell for as little as Mischa Richter's drawing from the issue of September 24, 1990. The drawing still holds up well more than three decades after its printing, although the rogues' gallery called to mind today is decidedly more partisan and political. The drawing is fairly detailed and should be worth considerably more than the $33 it fetched on eBay. A lot of the responsibility for this goes to the seller, whose misleading title suggests the offering is a signed magazine rather than an original magazine cartoon.
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Just Acquitted Mischa Richter Original cartoon art The New Yorker, September 24, 1990, p. 39 |
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Mischa Richter eBay listing ended April 17, 2024 |
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Mischa Richter eBay item description |
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Mischa Richter eBay bid history If you ever feel the need to place an early bid, don't. |
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Just Acquitted Mischa Richter The New Yorker, September 24, 1990, p. 39 |
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Just Acquitted Mischa Richter Original cartoon art The New Yorker, September 24, 1990, p. 39 |
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With a spot drawing by S. Wilson and a cartoon by Mischa Richter |
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Spot of a basket S. Wilson The New Yorker, September 24, 1990, p. 38 |
Note: And just who exactly is spot illustrator S. Wilson? I know this person is not a New Yorker cover artist or cartoonist, and not author/illustrator Sandra Wilson. But that's all I know.
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