Attempted Bloggery: Shark Week

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Sunday, July 23, 2023

Gahan Wilson: Water Safety

Fleetwood bookseller Charles Agvent is offering an original Playboy cartoon by the inimitable Gahan Wilson. It is, after all, that time of year when water safety should be on everyone's mind.

"Oh—and look out for the shark!"
Gahan Wilson
Original art
Playboy, August 1997, p. 113

Gahan Wilson
AbeBooks listing accessed December 12, 2022

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31365698403&searchurl=kn%3DThe%2BNew%2BYorker%26sgnd%3Don%26sortby%3D0&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title15

Here's how this drawing appeared when published:

"Oh—and look out for the shark!"
Gahan Wilson
Playboy, August 1997, p. 113

https://www.ebay.com/itm/185537185400

Happy Shark Week, everybody!

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Sunday, July 22, 2018

Harry Haenigsen in College Humor, January 1940

It seems fitting to resurrect a 1940 gag cartoon by Harry Haenigsen in honor of the thirtieth anniversary of Shark Week. If nothing else, this groaner demonstrates the importance of the hyphen in the term man-eating shark.

Harry Haenigsen
College Humor, January 1940, Vol 11, No. 1, page 29

Note: This is the first appearance of cartoonist Harry Haenigsen here on Attempted Bloggery. To me, this cartoon recalls the stylized multipanel gags of Otto Soglow. According to Ink Spill, Haenigsen published work in the New Yorker from 1931 to 1939, which places this cartoon just after that. In 1943, Haenigsen was to launch the popular newspaper comic strip Penny.

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Sunday, July 23, 2017

Danny Shanahan: Shark Week

Danny Shanahan reminds us that we have more to worry about this week than just the rising seas. He has embellished his New Yorker cover of March 7, 2016 with an original sketch of another well-known desert island hazard. Does anyone need reminding that it is, after all, Shark Week?