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Monday, September 15, 2025

My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #959

In The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #959 from the issue of September 15, 2025, a woman carries a pyramid of steaming coffee mugs and speaks to a man who doesn't have any coffee. My entry appears below. The drawing is by Amy Hwang.

"How do you take it?"

September 22, 2025 Update: The Finalists

September 29, 2025 Update: I voted for the medical caption from New York City.

October 11, 2025 Update: The Winner

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Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Mischa Richter: Not Spoiled

Four original 1950s comic panels from the syndicated strip Strictly Richter were sold on eBay early in December. Of course, they are the work of Mischa Richter, today best remembered for his New Yorker cartoons. The panels convey the artist's range and versatility.

"I told him that I'm not really spoiled, I just want my own way!"
Mischa Richter
Original comic panel art
Strictly Richter, October 22, 1958

"He put me on everything he took you off of, dear.""
Mischa Richter
Original comic panel art
Strictly Richter, January 6, 1955

"What flavor?"
Mischa Richter
Original comic panel art
Strictly Richter, November 14, 1955

"Take a good look. This will probably never happen again.""
Mischa Richter
Original comic panel art
Strictly Richter, September 10, 1956

Mischa Richter
eBay listing ended December 6, 2023

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Mischa Richter
eBay item description

Mischa Richter
eBay bid history
As I never get tired of saying, the latest bid gets it

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Monday, May 17, 2021

My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #755

I wore my best loincloth while working through The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #755 from the issue of May 17, 2021. I'm not sure it helped. The drawing is by Amy Hwang.

"Before I have my coffee I'm an absolute Neanderthal."

These captions were a little too primitive:

"Maybe you could bring me up to date."
"Well, look who's been busy inventing!"
"Mind if I pull up a rock and join you?"
"There's no F. The sign distinctly says CAVE."
"What's wrong with living in the past?"

May 25, 2021 Update: The Finalists

May 31, 2021 Update: After checking my iPhone's World Clock, I voted for the caption from Cupertino.

June 13, 2021 Update: The Winner

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Monday, April 13, 2020

My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #705

Skip your morning coffee and ponder my entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #705 for April 13, 2020. The drawing is by Julia Suits.

"Tell me again why we had to rob that Starbucks."

This caption didn't wake up yet:

"I guess I'll be taking a raincheck on that double cappuccino."

April 20, 2020 Update: The Finalists

April 27, 2020 Update: I voted with Modesto.

May 4, 2020 Update: The Winner

Note: In last week's Caption Contest, cartoonist John Klossner took us to an elevator with two sousaphonists. My caption was a bit claustrophobic. Still, you should go and enjoy the music with Contest #704. Me, I'll wait for the CD.

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Saturday, February 15, 2020

Saul Steinberg: Second Class (Packaged)

The art market continues to validate the unique status of Saul Steinberg. His still life Second Class (Packaged) from 1980 was offered without reserve in an online auction that opened on February 4, 2020. The rather anemic estimate of $2,000 to $3,000 for this colored pencil drawing on paper seemed calculated to generate hopeful bidder interest, and that it did. By the time the auction closed, though, the price realized was a robust $16,250.

Saul Steinberg
Second Class (Packaged), 1980

Saul Steinberg
Christie's Interiors NY
Online February 4-13, 2020

https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/interiors-ny/saul-steinberg-american-1914-1999-150/80557

Saul Steinberg
Second Class (Packaged), 1980

Three separate labels on the back of the original art give the title as Fourth Class (Art Materials) from 1980. The drawing's online sale history would seem to confirm this title. In fact, Christie's originally listed the still life with this title from the labels, then changed it to Second Class (Packaged). What happened?

The concept of Steinberg's four "classes" of still life was enumerated by Sarah Cowan in 2014, reviewing "Saul Steinberg: 100th Anniversary Exhibition" at the Pace Gallery. A Steinberg pencil drawing from 1980-81 including all four of these classes confirms that the Christie's Steinberg represents the second and not the fourth class of still life. The supposition, then, is that Steinberg's Second Class (Packaged) left Pace Gallery some forty years ago with the wrong label or, less plausibly, that a buyer bought more than one and the labels were switched at the framers.

https://hyperallergic.com/155375/saul-steinberg-decodes-the-symbols-of-society/

Saul Steinberg
Still Life (1980–81)
Graphite on folded paper, 14 ½″ x 23″

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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Mischa Richter for Cory Coffee Service

A piece of original advertising art by New Yorker cartoonist Mischa Richter for Cory Coffee Service was recently sold on eBay. I don't know when or where this may have been published. For the record, I recommend stirring with coffee spoons.