Sunday, December 7, 2025

Annals of Captioning: Hunting for The New Yorker in Print

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My ascension to New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest finalist in Contest #969 this week has left me in the unaccustomed position of not havin...
Saturday, December 6, 2025

David Levine: Marcel Proust

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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...
Friday, December 5, 2025

Eldon Dedini: Season in the Sun

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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...
Thursday, December 4, 2025

Ronald Searle: Holidays Artist and Model

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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...
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Ronald Searle: A Beefeater Is Served

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In a 1996  Ronald Searle  ink and watercolor drawing, we see a beefeater in a restaurant being served dinner by a bull. The meal is not very...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Ronald Searle: One-Armed Bandit

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Ronald Searle's drawing of a gambler joylessly working a slot machine is from the pictorial "Las Vegas: Home on the Range." I...
Monday, December 1, 2025

My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #970

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In  The New Yorker  Cartoon Caption Contest #970 from the issue of December 1, 2025, the setting is a library (or maybe a bookstore). A libr...
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Bill Bush's Copy of The Dedini Gallery

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A copy of The Dedini Gallery, Eldon Dedini's 1961 cartoon collection, is signed and inscribed, "Greetings, Bill!" by the art...
Saturday, November 29, 2025

Bob Hemminger's Copy of Let's Boogie! by James Stevenson

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For those keeping score, this is the second copy we have seen on this blog of the cartoon collection  Let's Boogie!  (1978) by James Ste...