Patrick McDonnell: A Mutts Dinner Note

Stephen Kroninger has found a Mutts Fold & Mail stationery note from Earl, the lead dog in the comic strip. One suspects Mutts cartoonist Patrick McDonnell may have helped, at least with the penmanship.

Photo by Stephen Kroninger

Scan by Stephen Kroninger

Note:  My thanks to Stephen Kroninger for sharing this rare Mutts note well in advance of mealtime.

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Nancy and Whitney Balliett's Copy of The World of George Price

The World of George Price:  A 55-Year Retrospective was published in 1988. In that year of publication George Price inscribed a copy to Nancy and Whitney Balliett. Whitney Balliett was the New Yorker's jazz critic.

Inscribed "To Nancy + Whitney Balliett
from Geo Price
                   '88"

Photo by David from Manhattan

The World of George Price:  A 55-Year Retrospective. New York:  Beaufort, 1988.

Photo by David from Manhattan

Note:  My thanks to long-time contributor David from Manhattan for sending these photographs. He reports buying this book for some nine or ten dollars.


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Charles Addams: A Central Park Offering

Reader David from Manhattan has sent in photographs of original Charles Addams art. Details of the image and even of the mounting are included. The somewhat intemperate drawing was published in the New Yorker in 1964. David writes:

The cartoon is 13 W x 14 7/8, and mounted on board which is 15 3/16 W x 19. The reverse, as you can see from one shot, no longer has a New Yorker label (if indeed that's what was there), but there's a faint handstamp, "UNBLOCKED, LEAVE BEARERS ON" at lower left (not visible here), and a 2nd smaller handstamp and notes (see image). The condition is wonderfully fresh....

Charles Addams

Original art

The New Yorker, November 5, 1964, page 66

Detail

Detail

Detail

Reverse

Charles Addams

The New Yorker, November 5, 1964, page 66

http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1964-12-05#folio=066

Note:  My thanks go to the man known here as David from Manhattan for sharing his fine original Charles Addams drawing with us. This is David's twenty-ninth contribution to Attempted Bloggery.


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