Richard Oldden: Call Me George

The final quartet of original drawings by Richard Oldden were sold on eBay earlier this month. The artist visits several well-traveled cartoon tropes and puts a new twist on each of them. One of the gags is wordless and in four panels on two sheets of paper. We aren't told where any of the cartoons were published.

          "My name is Kenzaburo Toramichi . . .           "At first we thought we would be swamped with tourists,

                 You may call me George."                           —but somehow it never caught on."

"What's this you've been telling my daughter?"                        Hunting the Lion                  

Versos with Dick Oldden's New York and Laguna Beach stamps

Richard Oldden
eBay listing ended May 6, 2023

https://www.ebay.com/itm/374666219984?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&nma=true&si=WEtIFz5%252FkfY9UxP8WWeB%252FCaqeVQ%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc

Richard Oldden
eBay item description

Richard Oldden
eBay bid history
Three bidders make seven bids over seven days. It's the last one that counts.

Note:  It's likely that many or all of the Dick Oldden cartoons in these eBay groupings of four were published somewhere in a mainstream magazine. But where? And when? It's questions like this that cry out for answers. Help if you can.

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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #768

I tried to put a little spin on The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #768 corresponding to the issue of August 23, 2021. My caption is shown below. The cartoon is by Will McPhail.

"Just tell him you're all tied up."

These captions didn't catch fire:

"What kind of newfangled paddle is that?"
"I promise I'll go easy on him."
"Why can't he just wait and play the winner?"

August 30, 2021 Update:  The Finalists

September 6, 2021 Update:  I voted for the caption from Cambridge.

September 17, 2021 Update:  The Winner

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Lee Lorenz: Ecce Femina

Lee Lorenz's color lithograph Ecce Femina (the title is a play on the Latin Ecce Homo, "behold the man," from the Gospel of John) dates from 1982 and was published in an edition of 80. The woman at the center of the composition is Eve; she whom we are asked to behold is herself preoccupied with beholding the woman in her hand mirror. Meanwhile Adam seems ready to take a fall for her, St. George battles his dragon for her, and Pan plays the pipes, presumably in an attempt to get her attention. At the bottom of the composition an unconventional pair of suitors is eager to present her with flowers. The overall effect, though, is lacking in coherence. The colors, judging by the scan, appear unhappily muddy. 

Lee Lorenz
Ecce Femina
Edition of 80, 1982

https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Ecce-Femina/2CE658EFC1103309

Note:  This is the fourth and last of the lithographs by Lee Lorenz that I am aware of. The chronological sequence is The Temptation of St. Anthony (1981), Ecce Femina (1982), Weight Watcher (c. 1989), and In the Beginning (1990). If there are any others I've missed, or other states of these four prints, please let me know.

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