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| Lászlo Roth Esquire, November 1958, page 60 Image courtesy of Jeff Nelson |
Note: Once again Jeff Nelson has gone above and beyond in his research of the Esquire cartoons of Lászlo Roth. This is his sixth contribution here, at least.
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Showing posts with label *6. Show all posts
Friday, August 27, 2021
Lászlo Roth: Making the Diagnosis
Jeff Nelson has uncovered one final late Esquire cartoon by Lászlo Roth, one that seems to avoid mixed media and, to a large degree, color. Jeff writes, "By this point in 1958, Esquire had cut way, way back on the full-color, full-page cartoons. This one is a mere quarter-page. Still, it provides a nice little coda to his works in that magazine." Indeed it does.
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Footnote: A Copy of Vip on Love... Relations in Strange Locations
A copy of Vip on Love...: Relations in Strange Locations (1978) is signed by Virgil Partch with an original Vip drawing that is not dedicated to any specific recipient. The book is a collection of risque cartoons about sexual relations in odd circumstances. This scan, merely a footnote to the vast output of Partch cartoons, is provided by Scott Burns from his personal library. I think you'll agree it's an upstanding drawing.
Note: My thanks to Scott Burns. This is the sixth post he's made possible, and there's more on the way.
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Attempted Bloggery is a place to share signed Vip books with original drawings. How many blogs can make that claim?
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Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Maggie of the Suicide Fleet: Margaret Emerson's Copy from Herb Roth
Maggie of the Suicide Fleet (1930) is the story of Maggie, the "pleasure yacht" of "Bromo-Seltzer King" Isaac Emerson, named for his wife Margaret, the recipient of this unique volume. The yacht was enlisted in the American submarine patrol fleet where it was assigned to protect America's coast, yet through a series of misadventures made it as far as the Azores, judging from the cover illustration by Herb Roth. When the book's illustrator dedicated this copy to Margaret Emerson he provided a sketch, very likely a self-portrait, as he describes himself as a coxswain and has drawn what to all appearances is a naval coxswain. When all is said and done, this probably wasn't Margaret's only copy.
Note: My thanks to A Friend of the Blog for these scans of a fascinating book personalized by Herb Roth, one of The New Yorker's earliest cartoonists and illustrators. This is my friend's sixth contribution here.
It is also the first original work of any kind by Herb Roth to appear on this blog, a real unpublished rarity! I would happily post more of such if any should be forthcoming. In the trade, that it what is known as a hint.
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| Scanned by A Friend of the Blog |
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| Scanned by A Friend of the Blog |
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Scanned by A Friend of the Blog
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It is also the first original work of any kind by Herb Roth to appear on this blog, a real unpublished rarity! I would happily post more of such if any should be forthcoming. In the trade, that it what is known as a hint.
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Wednesday, January 15, 2020
The Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #58
In the Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #58, a well-dressed woman is accosted by a "weirdo," as he's referred to in the JPEG file name. Three entries are allowed; mine are below. I found the scenario to be not very funny. The drawing is by Carolita Johnson.
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| "I see you follow norms. I'm Norm." "I've seen 'Joker' seventeen times." "Want to see my stinger?" |
January 22, 2020 Update: The Winner
In his caption contest commentary, seven-time New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest winner Lawrence Wood again brought up one of my captions. I believe this is the sixth time he's done this, and two of those times mentioned two captions. Yet I've never made it to the top three...
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Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Edward Sorel: The English Language Tower of Babel
Mistress Quickly: What, John Rugby! I pray thee, go to the casement and see if you can see my master, Master Doctor Caius, coming. If he do, i’ faith, and find anybody in the house, here will be an old abusing of God’s patience and the King’s English.
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Act I, scene ivWilliam Shakespeare
Illustrator Edward Sorel, who last week turned 90, has been producing outstanding work for some six decades. To demonstrate this, Tom Bloom has scanned a page from the March 2, 1962 issue of Life with a forgotten full-page illustration by the then thirty-two-year-old Sorel, already a creative force to be reckoned with.
In "The English Language," author Lincoln Barnett points out the remarkable fact that English has become the most spoken language in the world. Sorel has illustrated the point with an English-speaking Tower of Babel. Shakespeare himself presides at the top of the tower, reciting his own words from The Merry Wives of Windsor. On the left, Nikita Krushchev just slightly mangles the language with his "Very OK" while Prime Minister Nehru and the Dalai Lama converse with each other not in their native languages but in English.
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| Edward Sorel Life, March 2, 1962, page 72
Scan by Tom Bloom
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Note: Merci à Tom Bloom for submitting the color scan of the Tower of Babel. This is Tom's sixth contribution to Attempted Bloggery.
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Sunday, January 20, 2019
John Norment: William Tell
Jerome Wrinkle has contributed scans of another drawing by cartoonist John Norment (1911-1988). He dates this one to the late 1960s or 1970s, perhaps at the time Norment was working for Norcross greeting cards. Jerome believes it was not published, as there are no printer's markings. He speculates that it might even have been a New Yorker submission.
Summarizing the Norment cartoons from the two previous posts and this one, Jerome reports on the cartoonist's sequence of addresses:
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| John Norment Original cartoon art
Scan by Jerome Wrinkle
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Summarizing the Norment cartoons from the two previous posts and this one, Jerome reports on the cartoonist's sequence of addresses:
The first cartoon has his address as East 22nd Street but he had moved to the Village by 1953 to West 10th Street. By the time he did the Archer cartoon he was in comfortable Westport, CT—the state that became haven for so many cartoonists.
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| Verso with John Norment's Westport address stamp
Scan by Jerome Wrinkle
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Note: Many thanks to Jerome Wrinkle for contributing the scans included in the last three posts and for providing a running commentary.
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