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| Chuck Jones Argosy Book Store listing accessed July 6, 2026 |
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Showing posts with label The Washington Post. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Washington Post. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 7, 2026
Chuck Jones: Coyote Catches Road Runner by Tom Shales of the Washington Post
Back in 1975, animator Chuck Jones presented Tom Shales of the Washington Post with the ultimate compliment to a journalist. The original pencil drawing of everyone's favorite persistent coyote at his moment of triumph is available from Argosy Books.
Sunday, March 7, 2021
Lou Myers: A Good Read
The original artwork for a four-panel sequential cartoon by Lou Myers, nicely framed and matted, is currently available on eBay.
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| Lou Myers Original art Book World The Washington Post, October 4, 1981 Inscribed "To Rhoda—Happy '75' Affectionately, Lou" |
This label on the back tells us quite a lot. If we had the artwork without it, it would be a staggering challenge to figure out precisely where and when it was published. The label also clues us in as to the identity of Rhoda, the artwork's dedicatee. The book title Jumbo, we learn, was added some time after the publication in the Post, indicating very likely some sort of inside joke. What might that have been?
Jumbo, it turns out, is an illustrated history for children about the world's most famous elephant ever. It was published on October 1, 1992. The author, Rhoda Blumberg (1917-2016), turned seventy-five on December 13, 1992, just two months after the book's publication. Thus it makes perfect sense that Myers modified a 1981 book review drawing in late 1992, adding the name of this particular Rhoda's brand new book and then presenting it to her for a very special birthday. The writer's death in 2016 does much, sadly, to explain why the cartoon is on the market now.
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| https://www.amazon.com/Jumbo-Rhoda-Blumberg/dp/0027116832 |
There's more to the eBay listing:
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| Lou Myers eBay listing accessed March 6, 2021 |
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| Lou Myers eBay item description |
March 21, 2021 Update: At post time this artwork remained available on eBay. The item subsequently sold for a Best Offer of $130.
Note: So what comes after the honeymoon? Attempted Bloggery would like to show more original art by Lou Myers. Who can provide some assistance?
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Friday, April 28, 2017
Modern Cartoonists Fight to Keep Pace with Changing Times, 1972
"Now [James Geraghty's] talking about retiring, but is holding off because nobody has been found to replace him."
The Washington Post news serviceThe Geneva Times, August 2, 1972
It was the end of an era. Of the many magazines which once published cartoons, the market by 1972 had shrunk somehow to the point of having only one major player: The New Yorker. The cartoon editor, James Geraghty, who had been hired in 1938, was getting set to retire. By 1973, Lee Lorenz would be named his successor. This was the big story in magazine cartooning forty-five years ago, and it sounds an awful lot like the story today. Once again it feels like the end of an era. As a publisher of single-panel cartoons, the New Yorker is even more isolated among magazines than it was in 1972. This time around, it is Bob Mankoff, Lorenz's successor, who is retiring as cartoon editor. Emma Allen is setting out to steward the next phase of this singular art form we call the New Yorker cartoon.
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| "Modern Cartoonists Fight to Keep Pace with Changing Times," The Washington Post news service The Geneva Times, August 2, 1972, page 32
Scan courtesy of Michael Maslin
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Note: Thanks to Michael Maslin for providing this hard-to-find article. His blog Ink Spill reports on the world of New Yorker cartoonists.
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