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Four more original cartoons by Richard Oldden were sold as a group on eBay late last month. Two have address stamps from the artist's New York City studio and the other two have the Laguna Beach stamps. As in yesterday's post, Oldden gives us a desert island cartoon and a Little Dutch Boy cartoon. He also visits the themes of storming the medieval castle and trading trinkets with the natives.
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| "My God, get a load of these sea shells." "Sir . . . they're just begging for trouble." |
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| "I have to hand it to you, Mr. Takano . . . it sure beats glass beads." Little Dutch Boy |
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| Versos with the New York stamps, above, and the Laguna Beach stamps, below |
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| Richard Oldden eBay item description |
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| Richard Oldden eBay bid history Three bids, two of them in the final minute |
Note: These four finished cartoons by Richard Oldden may or may not have been published who knows where or when. If you can locate any or all of them in the history of print, circa the 1970s, please let me know.
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A group of four original cartoons by Richard Oldden (May 4, 1931-Feb 21, 1995) shows just how funny it can be when things go wrong. .jpeg)
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| "Oh, it's lux[u]rious enough . . . but we have this problem with fl[ie]s . . . " William Tell |
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| Leak in the dike Desert island sand sculpture |
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| Richard Oldden eBay listing ended April 30, 2023 |
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| Richard Oldden eBay item description |
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| Richard Oldden eBay bid history Seven days, two bidders, seven bids, and the last bid wins |
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| 888 Temple Hills Dr., Laguna Beach, CA Google Earth Street View Accessed May 15, 2023 |
Note: I would like to hear from readers who might know where any or all of these Richard Oldden cartoons were published.
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Original color art by Barbara Shermund includes stamps on the back from the King Features Syndicate library at 235 East 45th Street in New York. Pencil annotations indicate it was published in Pictorial Review, here abbreviated PR, in 1952, no doubt a part of her regular Shermund's Sallies feature. This particular Sally is shipwrecked on a desert island with an eager young man.
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| "I suppose, Mr. Clancy, I'm just not the chatty type." Barbara Shermund Original art Shermund's Sallies Pictorial Review, September 14, 1952 |
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| Barbara Shermund's signature and hand-corrected caption: "I suppose, Mr. Clancy, I'm just not |
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| Barbara Shermund eBay listing ended March 9, 2022 |
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| Barbara Shermund eBay item description |
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Note: This cartoon should be one of two that appeared in Shermund's Sallies published in Pictorial Review for September 14, 1952. I don't have a copy of this seventy-year-old newspaper insert at the ready. Can any reader help a landlocked blogger out by forwarding scans or photos of the relevant page?
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This week I worked remotely on The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #792 from the issue of February 28, 2022. My entry is shown below. The desert island drawing is by P. C. Vey.
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| "We're still in the Song-of-the-Month Club." |
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| "Hey! We finally have Lesson One." |
March 13, 2022 Update: The Finalists
March 14, 2022 Update: I voted for the caption from Mesa.
March 21, 2022 Update: The Winner
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It's time to play in the CartoonStock Caption Contest #142. My three captions are shown below. The drawing is by Dan Misdea.
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| "But I'm not ready to take an oasis." "We're stuck here unless that purse holds a ham radio." "Do you really think you're up to playing Mary Ann?" |
November 24, 2021 Update: The Winner
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What's funny about climate change? That's the unspoken challenge of The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #765 from the issue of August 2, 2021. My temperate caption is shown below. The drawing is by Feggo, a.k.a. Felipe Galindo.
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| "You won't believe this, but my desert island disc is 'I Melt With You.'" |
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| "I don't see how this helps either of us." "Stop raising my sea level." "Thank goodness. For a minute I was afraid you were a cruise ship." "Next time let me come to you." |
August 10, 2021 Update: The Finalists
August 17, 2021 Update: I neglected to vote this time around, just as I neglected to submit a caption for the juggling contest. Had I voted, I might have gone for the Croton-on Hudson caption.
August 28, 2021 Update: The Winner
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