A Seasonal Diffee Doodle Print

A Diffee Doodle print by Matthew Diffee offered on eBay in 2017 seems to be an especially apt image for this time of year. Diffee created some 1,500 unique Diffee Doodles and they were offered as gifts to the first 1,500 subscribers to his newsletter back around 2015. There were also prints made of these drawings, or at least of some of them, based in part on demand, but some were given to later subscribers. The prints are signed and dated but not numbered.

Matthew Diffee
eBay listing  as of January 10, 2017

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Matthew-Diffee-Rejection-Collection-New-Yorker-Signed-Autograph-Card-Doodle-/252713410624?hash=item3ad6e4a040:g:55UAAOSwjDZYcG6Y

Matthew Diffee
eBay item description

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The Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #61

I did not enter the "Dead Date" installment of the Cartoon Collections Caption Contest, #61, and rereading my tentative caption I suppose that's just as well. The drawing is by Ellis Rosen.

"On second thought, don't drink. I don't want to see where it goes."

February 12, 2020 Update:  The Winner

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Ellis Rosen

Ghosts

The Cartoon Collections Caption Contest

The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest

The Moment Magazine Cartoon Caption Contest

All the Above Cartoon Caption Contests Together

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Otto Soglow in College Humor, May 1937

In the May 1937 issue of College Humor, cartoonist Otto Soglow chronicles a frightening occurrence.

Otto Soglow, College Humor, Vol. 5, No. 1, May 1937, page 17

Note:  This copy of the May 1937 issue of College Humor is part of the Steven Boss humor magazine collection at Columbia University, one of some 5,600 humor magazines proudly housed in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library. That makes at least one leading university making good use of its shelf space. For more information on accessing the collection, contact Curator for Comics and Cartoons Karen Green, Columbia's secret weapon in the war on boring library stacks.

Help me give Otto Soglow his due. Help me make Attempted Bloggery a leading showcase for scans or photographs of original cartoon art by Soglow and other artists whose work appeared in the likes of College Humor or The New Yorker. Clippings of rare, published cartoons are also desired.

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Otto Soglow

College Humor

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Claude Smith's Haunted House Upgrade

The house depicted in Claude Smith's New Yorker cartoon of March 8, 1958 turns out to be more than just your typical fixer-upper...

Claude Smith, The New Yorker, March 8, 1958, pages 44-45

Claude's original artwork to all eight panels was sold last year on eBay:

Claude Smith, original art
The New Yorker, March 8, 1958, pages 44-45

Claude Smith's signature

Claude Smith
eBay Listing Ended July 27, 2016

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Yorker-Comic-Art-by-Claude-Smith-8-Panels-signed-/172286176522?hash=item281d0e6d0a%3Ag%3AyV8AAOSw-YVXmRah&nma=true&si=YQGb25QThn5Fxe78BW8tTy6VzZY%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Claude Smith
eBay Item Description
"Shows some age." Don't we all?

Claude Smith, original art
The New Yorker, March 8, 1958, pages 44-45

Claude Smith, The New Yorker, March 8, 1958, pages 44-45

http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1958-03-08#folio=044

Note:  Boo! Do you know what I wish for on Halloween? How about scans or photographs of original art by Claude Smith and other New Yorker artists.


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Claude Smith

Original New Yorker Cartoon Art

Halloween

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NYC 2009 Halloween Decorations

Here are a few Halloween decorations photographed by me on November 1, 2009 in Manhattan.

Witch at 100 United Nations Plaza

Decorations on York Avenue

G-g-ghost!

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Danse Macabre - 

Camille Saint-Saëns

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