Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts
Monday, March 30, 2026

My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #984

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In  The New Yorker  Cartoon Caption Contest #984 from the issue of March 30, 2026, a rabbit artist is working on a large painting while anot...
Thursday, April 6, 2023

Easter Hats: Anatol Kovarsky New Yorker Cover Art

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The great cartoonist  Anatol Kovarsky (1919-2016) was born on this date 104 years ago. Even those already familiar with his "Easter Ha...
Friday, April 15, 2022

Helen E. Hokinson: Easter Parade for a WAC?

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Oh, I could write a sonnet about Helen E. Hokinson's cover for the April 1943 Woman's Home Companion.   Helen E. Hokinson Woman...
Friday, April 2, 2021

Sitting on an Easter Egg: Oscar Berger Proposed New Yorker Cover Art

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Proposed cover art for The New Yorker by Oscar Berger (1901-1997) shows a broody hen sitting on a decorated Easter Egg. The fanciful imag...
Saturday, April 11, 2020

Louis M. Glackens: Easter 1908

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Louis M. Glackens (1866-1933) provided the cover illustration of Puck for Easter 1908. The artist, brother of Ashcan School founder and A...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Ted Key: Leftovers

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So…what's in your lunchbox today? Dick Buchanan has contributed a scan of a  long-forgotten  1951 color gag cartoon from The American ...
Saturday, March 31, 2018

Ted Key: Ready for Easter

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Cartoonist Ted Key brings an imaginative use of color to a mostly black and white cartoon. It was published in The Saturday Evening Post ...
Friday, April 14, 2017

Easter Morning: Garrett Price Proposed New Yorker Cover Art

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Good Friday comes this month, the old woman runs With one or two a penny hot cross buns. — Poor Robin's Almanack, 1733 Quoted in...
Sunday, March 27, 2016

Charles Addams: Rabbit Ears

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The New Yorker's Easter 1983 cover was created by Charles Addams.  The bunny family of four are gathered in front of the television se...
Sunday, April 5, 2015

The New Yorker's First Easter Cover

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The year is 1925. The artist is Rea Irvin .  For the  New Yorker's  eighth issue, Irvin has created the magazine's first Easter cov...
Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Constantin Alajálov for Naturalizer Shoes

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In 1947 and 1948, illustrator Constantin Alajálov lent his talents to an advertising campaign for Naturalizer shoes. They were called ...
Sunday, April 20, 2014

Constantin Alajálov's Easter Bonnet

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The illustrator Constantin Alajálov created the New Yorker's charming 1946 Easter cover. Hours before dawn, there is a single light on...
Saturday, March 30, 2013

Peter Arno's Easter Parade

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On a 1931 New Yorker cover, Peter Arno's gangly jogger disrupts the pomp and pageantry of Fifth Avenue's Easter Parade. Peter ...

Irving Berlin's Easter Parade

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Judy Garland and Fred Astaire prepare to step out onto Fifth Avenue in all their finery at the conclusion of MGM's "Easter Parade...
Friday, March 29, 2013

Minnie Mouse's Easter Bonnet

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Minnie tries on her Easter bonnet for the March 1937 cover of Mickey Mouse Magazine. Oh, I could write a sonnet...but I won't. Wal...
Sunday, April 8, 2012

Walt Disney's "Funny Little Bunnies" (1934)

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Walt Disney's Silly Symphony "Funny Little Bunnies" from 1934 has none of the famous Disney characters, but there are lots ...