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| Published as "Congratulations! It's a baby." Charles Addams Original art The New Yorker, November 9, 1940, p. 21 |
In the published caption, the punctuation has been cleaned up a bit. The cartoon is reproduced in Brendan Gill's indispensable Here at The New Yorker (1975) in chapter 20. Gill tells an anecdote about a macabre caption which may have been falsely attributed to this very drawing or one like it. I won't repeat it here.
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| Published as "Congratulations! It's a baby." Charles Addams Original art The New Yorker, November 9, 1940, p. 21 |
We learn from the listing that this drawing was in the collection of legendary New Yorker editor Katharine White (1892-1977). It must have been passed down to her son Roger Angell (1920-2022) and been sold off after he passed away.
Heritage is too fond of classifying cartoons as interior illustrations. For the record, here is what should be called an interior illustration:
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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 |
Heritage is too fond of classifying cartoons as interior illustrations. For the record, here is what should be called an interior illustration:
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| Illustration for "The Homesick Busboy of the Splendide." Ludwig Bemelmans The New Yorker, November 9, 1940, p. 20 |
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