Showing posts with label columns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label columns. Show all posts

Monday, October 14, 2024

My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #917

In The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #917 from the issue of October 14, 2024, a beaver gnaws at a Greek column and makes a remark to another beaver. My submission is shown below. The classical drawing is by Mads Horwath.

"Please stop calling it 'iconic.'"



These captions didn't go down smoothly:

"Worst. Tree. Ever."
"Don't tell ME it isn't petrified."
"If you won't pitch in, I'm going to need some dental work."




October 21, 2024 Update:  The Finalists





November 2, 2024 Update:
  I voted for the caption from Portland.


November 9, 2024 Update:
  The Winner





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Thursday, January 23, 2020

Ronald Searle: Nobody Loves Me

Ronald Searle's 1974 lithograph Nobody Loves Me is surely one of his signature lithographic images. It depicts a lonely and isolated cat high up on a precarious perch. It was first collected in More Cats (1975).
Ronald Searle
Nobody Loves Me
Edition of 99, 1974




[January 17, 2022 Update:  A hand-colored épreuve d'artiste, or artist's proof, made its way onto a 1978 postcard.]
Ronald Searle
Nobody Loves Me
Postcard of hand-colored épreuve d'artiste aside from the edition of 99, 1974

Image added January 17, 2022


Postcard verso, 1978
Image added January 17, 2022



In 2005, Searle published The Predatory Bite of the Steel Nib in a limited edition of 296 copies. One of his sketchbook drawings reproduced there reveals something of the germination of the lithograph. In this early iteration of the image the unbalanced column is fully recognizable. The plain is not empty but filled with dogs and the cat is not cowering in solitude but delivering a fiery oration to the assembly. Searle plays with two written titles:  Top Dog and La Gloire [Glory].
Ronald Searle
Top Dog/la gloire
The Predatory Bite of the Steel Nib:  The Scrapbook Drawings of Ronald Searle

Predatory Parrot Press, 2005 





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