Showing posts with label Presidents' Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Presidents' Day. Show all posts
Saturday, February 22, 2025

Rea Irvin: George Washington's Birthday—and a Peter Arno Cover Rough

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George Washington's birthday falls on February 22, a fact that was known to most Americans before the creation of Presidents' Day. A...
Friday, February 18, 2022

Roz Chast: Presidents' Day Sale

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The Purple Pussycat Boutique, Roz Chast's fictitious sex shop, is based on the Pink Pussycat Boutique located on West 4th Street in the...
Friday, July 5, 2019

Otto Soglow: W. C. Fields for President

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Fields for President is a 1940 book by W. C. Fields with drawings by cartoonist  Otto Soglow.  The first edition with its original dust j...
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Hank Ketcham: Lincoln's Birthday

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How does one honor Abraham Lincoln on his birthday? In 1946, five years before he began the comic strip "Dennis the Menace," Han...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

Barney Tobey: George Washington Stopped Here

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An old cliche is that every place George Washington ever stayed or ate or slept had a sign commemorating that momentous event. Cartoonist B...
Saturday, February 18, 2017

Edward Sorel: Presidential Portraits

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Edward Sorel delivers the goods: caricatures of some Presidents who appear on American currency. That's a thoughtful George Washington...
Monday, February 16, 2015

Charles Addams: Mental Hazard

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Happy Presidents' Day!  Today's blog post features original New Yorker cartoon art and is dedicated to all those Presidents who...