The Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #94

The Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #94 presents us with a dog at an information window. This week there is no question as to who is speaking. My entries are below. The drawing is by Kaamran Hafeez.

"Do you have a squirrel department?"
"Who can give me a belly rub?"
"Do you need a floorwalker?"
"You'll have to walk me through this."
"Treats?"

October 8, 2020 Update:  The Winner

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William Von Riegen in College Humor, August 1937

A cartoon by William Von Riegen from the August 1937 issue of College Humor imagines just what can happen when signs are interpreted a little too earnestly.

"I'm going to be married."
William Von Riegen
College Humor, Vol. 5, No. 4, August 1937, page 61

Scanned by Dick Buchanan

Note:  My thanks to Dick Buchanan for putting his superb scanning skills to work for the greater good. He contributes regularly to Mike Lynch Cartoons, most recently a fine piece on Orlando Busino.

Information please? Industrious readers who would like to contribute scans or photos of published rarities or original art by William Von Riegen are welcome. Me, I can barely turn my scanner on.

Biographical notes on the artist from artprice.com may be found here.

Von Riegen's figure drawings from Gene Byrnes's Complete Guide to Cartooning may be seen here.

A very brief biographical line on Von Riegen appears on the The New Yorker Cartoonists A-Z of Ink Spill.


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William Von RIegen in College Humor, September 1937

Two cartoons by William Von Riegen appear in the College Humor number from September 1937. Each cartoon has a woman speaker. The first young woman is insecure in her golfing skills, but she still manages to drive a double entendre:

"Do you really like my form?"
William Von Riegen, College Humor, Vol. 6, No. 1, September 1937

The second young woman is more confident in her skills:

"Plaza 6-8881."
William Von Riegen, College Humor, Vol. 6, No. 1, September 1937

Note:  This isn't my copy of College Humor. It is a part of the Steven Boss humor magazine collection at Columbia University. You too can read it and even photograph it in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The library staff doesn't even make you wear gloves. Karen Green, Curator for Comics and Cartoons at Columbia, can guide you to any and all of the 5,600 humor magazines in the collection. It shouldn't take you more than a few years to get through them.


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Tomorrow, we'll take a break from William Von Riegen for blog post no. 2200, if I counted right.

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