Stan Cohen's Copy of The Art in Cartooning

I have no idea whether the Stan Cohen who obtained a personalized copy of The Art in Cartooning: Seventy-five Years of American Magazine Cartoons (1975) was also the sociologist  who coined the term moral panic. The original drawings in the book added at a signing by cartoonists George Booth, Sam Gross, Gahan Wilson, and Bill Woodman don't necessarily shed any light on the possibility. If there's panic in any of these four drawings, it isn't particularly moral.

The dust cover illustration is The Closed Mind, an experimental drawing by Charles Saxon. The interior drawings dedicated to Cohen are the work of Booth (a flea-ridden cat sitting in a corner), Wilson (a flea-ridden "Horrible Thing" sitting in a Boothian corner), Gross (a disturbed man pointing out a "cockeroach (sic!)"), and Woodman (something buggy fleeing the bottom of a birdcage while the bird's delighted owner listens in). Or, as the listing from Rare Book Cellar, the rare book seller who offers this unique copy for sale, succinctly puts it, "Signed by multpiple [sic] cartoonists with muliple [sic] cartoons." I couldn't have written it better.

The Art in Cartooning
Rare Book Cellar listing accessed August 1, 2024

https://www.rarebookcellar.com/pages/books/307389/mort-gerberg-edwin-fisher-ron-wolin/the-art-in-cartooning-seventy-five-years-of-american-magazine-cartoons-signed

Note:  There are now nine—go ahead, count 'em—unique copies of The Art in Cartooning posted in the archives here, a claim no other blog can match. Is this then a good place to stop? Of course not. Collectors in possession of their own interesting copies of the book are urged to forward images of the interesting parts to the proprietor of this blog. With a little luck, there won't be any more cucarachas.

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