Giving Thanks 2020

Charles E. Martin
The New Yorker, November 26, 1966

https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/1966-11-26/flipbook/CV1/

I want to use today to thank those generous individuals who have contributed to this blog over the past year. It's been a difficult year for all of us, but this blogging pursuit has been blessed with more support than ever in 2020. Frankly, the number and quality of the submissions has quite often taken my breath away. Friends, I thank each and every one of you:

Tom Bloom

Dick Buchanan

Scott Burns

John Colquhoun

David from Manhattan

Frank Ferrante

A Friend of the Blog

Sarah Getz

Claude Haber

Joel Jacobus

Stephen Kroninger

Joe Petro III

Steve Stoliar

Jerome Wrinkle

Labels linking to posts made possible by each of these contributors may be found below, with the exception of A Friend of the Blog, who causes me to exceed my 200-character limit on labels. A link instead is provided here.

My thanks also to those family members and friends who have helped me out in a great variety of ways, usually anonymously. You know who you are. I also wish to thank my family for putting up with this whole outlandish pursuit of mine.

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John Colquhoun's Copy of The Art in Cartooning

Cartoonist and illustrator John Colquhoun has come through for us with photographs of his own copy of The Art in Cartooning (1975).

The Closed Mind
Charles Saxon
The Art in Cartooning:  Seventy-five Years of American Magazine Cartoons
The Cartoonists Guild, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975

This book was personalized for him by eight top cartoonists at a New York City Barnes & Noble signing, he recollects. Six of these cartoonists we've already seen draw in at least one other copy of this book; they are George Booth, Sam Gross, Paul Peter Porges, Gahan Wilson, Bill Woodman, and Jack Ziegler.The other two cartoonists, Lou Myers and Mike Witte, we have not previously seen draw in copies of this or indeed of any cartoon book. In fact, it seems this New York signing event is new to us, one we haven't encountered with the previous four copies of this book to be noted on the blog, a signing apparently without cartoonists Dana Fradon and Marvin Tannenberg, and without editors Ed Fisher, Mort Gerberg, and Ron Wolin.

Paul Peter Porges and Sam Gross
Lou Myers and Bill Wooodman

Four cartoonists draw on the front free endpaper. Porges and Woodman play with other meanings of John's name, Gross plays a cat and mouse game, while Myers plays at sketching, one would guess, the book's recipient.

Then three cartoonists—Witte, Ziegler, and Booth—pick up the theme of corners. John does not remember who started it, but he knows it was not his own suggestion.

Mike Witte

Jack Ziegler and George Booth

Finally, Wilson embellishes the book with a footloose self-portrait, perhaps, popping a soccer ball. All this for just $14.95! Then as now, you have to know where to go.

"Oops!"
"All best to John
Gahan Wilson"

Note:  My thanks to John Colquhoun for sharing his wonderful copy of this book. 

This is the fifth copy of The Art in Cartooning we have seen signed, inscribed, and sketched in by multiple cartoonists. It is the first evidence we have of a second book signing, one held in New York.

Additional personalized copies of this book are avidly sought here for potential inclusion in future blog posts.


Quick Links to the Attempted Bloggery Archives:

The Art in Cartooning
George Booth

(Ed Fisher)

(Dana Fradon)

(Mort Gerberg)

Sam Gross

Lou Myers

Charles Saxon (Cover Artist)

(Marvin Tannenberg)

Gahan Wilson

Michael Witte

(Ron Wolin)

Bill Woodman 

Jack Ziegler

Signed Books with Original Drawings

Attempted Bloggery's Footloose and Fancy-Free Index

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