Ed Arno and Warren Miller, et al., From the Collection of Paul P. Goldberg

One has to admire the zeal of collector Paul P. Goldberg, who sent out hundreds of self-addressed blank postal cards to a great many of the cartoonists of his day. The present set of twenty date from the years 1966 to 1974, a time when Goldberg moved from Philadelphia to Plymouth Meeting. There are two New Yorker names here. Ed Arno's drawing may or may not predate his first appearance in the magazine in 1969, which was permitted only after the passing of his near-namesake Peter Arno in 1968. Warren Miller is represented as well with a bold and bearded self-portrait.

Well-known panel cartoonists Lawrence Lariar and George Dole are included; neither ever had their work appear in The New Yorker. Jean-Claude Suares, the first art director of The New York Times's Op-Ed page, has drawn his nose as a pen nib much as Arnold Roth did elsewhere in the Goldberg collection. One wonders, with this assortment of talented cartoonists, what proportion of the sale price of $135.50 owes to the presence of Brad Anderson's big dog Marmaduke.

Twenty cartoonists
eBay listing ended December 17, 2024

https://www.ebay.com/itm/176094313816?itmmeta=01HPTDN7ZC6KWM14VY3HT1XR63&hash=item290009fd58:g:~uEAAOSw3dBlddBR

Twenty cartoonists
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Twenty cartoonists
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This time the second-to-last bidder wins it.

Note:  I don't make any of this up. Michael Maslin's "The Two Arnos" from 2008 appears online at The New Yorker's website here.

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Garry Trudeau Plays Ball

Yesterday we looked at a baseball drawn upon by none other than cartoonist Charles M. Schulz and noted that his drawing of Snoopy made it the most desirable baseball from what arguably may be the best collection of baseballs drawn upon by cartoonists anywhere. Yet it does not have the honor of being the most expensive baseball embellished by a cartoonist listed on eBay at the present moment. That distinction belongs to a baseball signed by five prominent newspaper comic strip cartoonists and offered by eBay seller historydirect. They are Garry Trudeau ("Doonesbury"), Brad Anderson ("Marmaduke"), Tom Wilson ("Ziggy"), Bil Keane ("The Family Circus"), and Mort Walker ("Beetle Bailey"). Collector Rick Kain did a nice job putting this one together.

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/GARRY-TRUDEAU-INSCRIBED-BASEBALL-SIGNED-01-14-2008-WITH-CO-SIGNERS-/370217739940?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5632b266a4

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Note:  Besides attending batting practice, the best way to prepare for the World Series is to review my blog posts about baseball.

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