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I was all ready to buy this book sight unseen: a crisp, clean, signed first edition of Edward Gorey's The Haunted Tea-Cosy: A Dispirite...

A 1998 postcard published by the Gotham Book Mart in New York announces Edward Gorey's holiday book The Haunted Tea-Cosy: A Dispirited ...

In the November 4 sale of illustration art, Heritage Auctions offered an original Gahan Wilson Playboy cartoon that is hardly the usual Ch...

Many readers back in the 1920s or early '30s were familiar with the Jazz Age illustrations of John Held, Jr.  Often they depicted flappe...

In the CartoonStock Caption Contest number 200, a family relaxes at home. Each family member is armed, as are the pets and even the housepla...

In  The New Yorker  Cartoon Caption Contest #971 from the issue of December 8, 2025, a lumberjack with a chainsaw has just cut off the top o...

My ascension to New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest finalist in Contest #969 this week has left me in the unaccustomed position of not havin...

Yesterday, I came to the end of  Marcel Proust's seven-volume masterwork  Remembrance of Things Past, as I still tend to call it. Neve...

Out of the Playboy Archives comes an original color cartoon by Eldon Dedini. It was published in the issue of December 1970. Set, one assu...

A 1989 ink drawing (with just a little bit of colored pencil) by Ronald Searle  celebrates Santa's eye for the arts. The original work f...