A Seasonal Diffee Doodle Print

A Diffee Doodle print by Matthew Diffee offered on eBay in 2017 seems to be an especially apt image for this time of year. Diffee created some 1,500 unique Diffee Doodles and they were offered as gifts to the first 1,500 subscribers to his newsletter back around 2015. There were also prints made of these drawings, or at least of some of them, based in part on demand, but some were given to later subscribers. The prints are signed and dated but not numbered.

Matthew Diffee
eBay listing  as of January 10, 2017

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Matthew-Diffee-Rejection-Collection-New-Yorker-Signed-Autograph-Card-Doodle-/252713410624?hash=item3ad6e4a040:g:55UAAOSwjDZYcG6Y

Matthew Diffee
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Diffee Doodle Sibling Rivalry

My brother's Diffee Doodle has arrived! Diffee Doodles, if you haven't heard, are unique compositions by cartoonist Matthew Diffee, who a while back generously offered to give the drawings to his fans. Some 1500 people signed up before he came to his senses. He's been drawing ever since. Now he's about two-thirds of the way through the project.

My brother's Diffee Doodle depicts a half-length portrait of a curmudgeonly older man wearing glasses and a v-neck sweater under a shirt collar. Mine, you may recall, is a full-length portrait of a curmudgeonly middle-aged man with thinning hair and ballooning head in a business suit. Here's where the sibling rivalry comes in: who got the better curmudgeon?

Matthew Diffee, Diffee Doodle No. 975

Matthew Diffee, Diffee Doodle No. 748

Note:  Read more about Matthew Diffee in the blog archives.

The Diffee Doodle giveaway is over, but if you sign up for the Diffeeville Dispatch newsletter, you can still get a free Diffee Doodle print. Not too shabby!

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My Diffee Doodle

My Diffee Doodle just arrived! The first 1,500 people to sign up for Matthew Diffee's newsletter were offered a free drawing. This is No. 748, which means it's just about halfway through the projected series. The drawing depicts the elongated standing figure of a man seen head-on, wearing a suit but no tie, arms folded behind his back, with a balding balloon of a head. He looks somewhat tired. The figure is placed slightly to the left of the drawing, and it is signed on the lower right. Like all Diffee Doodles, it is unique.

As a compulsive doodler myself, I can assure you that Diffee Doodles are not doodles at all—they're full-fledged compositions created with a lot of thought and deliberation. Hence the relatively slow production of these is no surprise. These are no slapdash assembly-line creations, but individually crafted works of art. Somewhat puzzling is the fact that my Diffee Doodle was created on August 12, approximately five months prior to its arrival in my mailbox. Of course, Mr. Diffee became a first-time Dad in September and that may have slowed down the fulfillment process just a bit.

At any rate, this project is an extremely generous giveaway, and coming from a New Yorker cartoonist it is certainly one for the record books. Those who sign up now for Mr. Diffee's newsletter should still be able to get a free print of a Diffee Doodle, not a bad deal either.

Matthew Diffee, Diffee Doodle No. 748

Diffee Doodle No. 748, verso

Official Diffee Doodle Certificate of Authenticity

Proper Care and Handling. Now you know.

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Note:  More posts about Matthew Diffee are in the blog archives. It's what I do instead of giving away doodles.

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