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Showing posts with label advertising. Show all posts

Showing posts with label advertising. Show all posts

Sunday, November 16, 2025

Charles Addams for "Anniversary Waltz"

"Anniversary Waltz," a comedy by Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields, opened on Broadway in 1954. It starred Macdonald Carey and ...

Monday, July 7, 2025

Richard Taylor and Robert Day for the United States Playing Card Compnay

"How long since you've bought new cards?" asked the United States Playing Card Company back in 1941. Each of their six brands ...

Friday, June 13, 2025

Peter Arno's Triple Threat

When an advertising piece for Atlantic White Flash Motor Oil Lubrication illustrated by Peter Arno showed up on eBay recently, it was new t...

Sunday, June 8, 2025

Ronald McRae for Clio et Claire

Ronald McRae created one and only one New Yorker cover for the issue of May 15, 1926. The cover is a bit tantalizing in that it does not s...

Thursday, May 29, 2025

Charles Saxon: Losing His Cool

Today our friend David from Manhattan writes of an animated advertising campaign designed by New Yorker cartoonist Charles Saxon (1920-19...

Thursday, May 15, 2025

J. B. Handelsman: Gone Fishing

An original New Yorker cartoon by J. B. Handelsman (1922-2007) was sold ealier this month in Sudbury, Massachusetts. The tranquility of th...

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