Attempted Bloggery: W. B. Park: Of Clinical Interest

Sunday, December 29, 2024

W. B. Park: Of Clinical Interest

It took some eight years for W. B. Park's drawing, purchased by The New Yorker in 1987, to be published in the magazine. The setting is a doctor's office where a patient is experiencing a conversation one doesn't ever want to have.

"Mr. Wilkins, I believe that your condition is going to get us both into the 'Journal of the American Medical Association.'"
W. B. Park
Original art
The New Yorker, December 4, 1995, p. 52

Detail, left

Detail, right, with W. B. Park's signature

W. B. Park
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W. B. Park
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"Mr. Wilkins, I believe that your condition is going to get us both into the 'Journal of the American Medical Association.'"
W. B. Park
The New Yorker, December 4, 1995, p. 52

"Mr. Wilkins, I believe that your condition is going to get us both into the 'Journal of the American Medical Association.'"
W. B. Park
Original art
The New Yorker, December 4, 1995, p. 52

With a cartoon by W. B. Park and an advertisement for Starbucks

https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/1995-12-04/flipbook/052/

Incidentally, Park's Wikipedia page offers us an intriguing explanation of why his work stopped appearing in The New Yorker in 2000 although the statement has been tagged as citation needed. Are any citations for this likely to be forthcoming?