Tuesday's Illustration Art auction at Swann Galleries in New York had a generous selection of New Yorker art, including a few pieces by Jack Ziegler. His original cartoon from 1993 is as zany a tribute to motherhood as one could imagine.
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| "Yessirree, kids, your mother is one heck of a gal!" Jack Ziegler Original art The New Yorker, March 8, 1993, p. 85 |
The drawing, of course, is exaggerated, the caption somehow understated—a potent combination.
Here we see it in the pages of The New Yorker:
Dana Fradon's cartoon uses heavier shading and rougher lines than Ziegler's. I'm convinced that the magazine in those days was very deliberately laid out so that the cartoons on facing pages weren't too similar graphically.
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| Jack Ziegler Swann Galleries Illustration Art sale of June 17, 2025 |
Here we see it in the pages of The New Yorker:
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| "Yessirree, kids, your mother is one heck of a gal!" Jack Ziegler The New Yorker, March 8, 1993, p. 85 |
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| "Yessirree, kids, your mother is one heck of a gal!" Jack Ziegler Original art The New Yorker, March 8, 1993, p. 85 |
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| With cartoons by Dana Fradon and Jack Ziegler |
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| "Good news! We've been selected as a potential burial site for nuclear waste." Dana Fradon The New Yorker, March 8, 1993, p. 84 |
Note: Readers are welcome to share images of original Jack Ziegler art on this blog. Yessirree!
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