Dorothy McKay: Priorities

The original art for a full color, full page 1956 Esquire cartoon by Dorothy McKay is currently available from Honey & Wax Booksellers of Brooklyn.

"Why don't you do something, dear, besides just make money?"
Dorothy McKay
Original art
Esquire, September 1956, p. 88

McKay's frustrating cartooning career with The New Yorker ended in 1936. Yet this Esquire piece from two decades later seems to retain something of a New Yorker cartoon sensibility. One can imagine a black-and-white version being perfectly at home in its pages. Fortunately, the drawing was appreciated by Esquire's editors and it found a good home away from home. 

"Why don't you do something, dear, besides just make money?"
Dorothy McKay
Original art
Esquire, September 1956, p. 88

Dorothy McKay
Honey & Wax Booksellers listing accessed August 3, 2024

https://www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/pages/books/1003790/dorothy-mckay/why-don-t-you-do-something-dear-besides-just-make-money

"Why don't you do something, dear, besides just make money?"
Dorothy McKay
Esquire, September 1956, p. 88

https://classic.esquire.com/issue/19560901/print

Note:  Are you burdened by original Dorothy McKay art going unshared despite the ready availability of the internet? Are you in need of a suitable blog to realize your dream of letting the world at large appreciate what's in your collection? I stand eager to share images of your treasures.

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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #870

Many important decisions have to be made when setting up the nursery. Welcome to The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #870 from the issue of October 16, 2023. My caption is shown below. The drawing is by Kit Fraser.

"Just look what it did for my reach."

October 28, 2023 Update:  The Finalists

November 5, 2023 Update:  I voted for the caption from Boston. For the record, I thought the other two captions were excellent.

November 11, 2023 Update:  The Finalists

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Clare Briggs on Getting a Raise

It's natural, but probably not healthy, to compare one's financial success with that of one's neighbors. Money's a funny thing that way. But something rings false about

Clare Briggs's newspaper comic strip It Happens in the Best Regulated Families for January 27, 1926, and not just the ungainly title of the strip. The $1,500 a year salary increase that provides the premise for this whole episode seems excessive for the time. Surely some well-situated people received raises of that magnitude back in the Roaring Twenties but that must have been far from the norm, and far out of the experience of the average newspaper reader. Increases in annual compensation of that magnitude are more credible today a century later.

https://www.newspapers.com/image/397618378/?terms=%22the%2Bold%2Blady%2Bin%2BDubuque%22

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National Doctors' Day: Joe Zeis in the Exam Room

Today is National Doctors' Day in the US. In order to honor physicians for their selfless dedication, Dick Buchanan offers up a 1957 gag from his clip files by cartoonist Joe Zeis:

"Those X rays of yours are in here somewhere."

Joe Zeis

The Saturday Evening Post, June 15, 1957

Scan by Dick Buchanan

Note:  My thanks to Dick Buchanan for nurturing my appreciation of doctors in this special way. Dick, of course, is the custodian of the renowned Dick Buchanan Cartoon Clip Files and a regular contributor to Mike Lynch Cartoons, most recently a post entitled  "From the Dick Buchanan Files: The Search for Happiness Part Three: Marriage 1946 - 1964." Better check it out before you make any lifelong commitments.

The subject of perceived avarice in doctors with too much green on their hands has been visited here before. See, for example, Attempted Bloggery's most recent post (yes, there's more than one) about the notorious wrong bag cartoon.

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Bernard Schoenbaum: For Love or Money

Original 1991 New Yorker cartoon art by Bernard Schoenbaum was sold on eBay in 2016. An older man and a younger woman are seated in a restaurant. She is the speaker and her somewhat unguarded words tell us more than we need to know about what's going on. Does this couple have a future?

Bernard Schoenbaum
"Gee, Mr. Wilson, you have more money than anyone I've ever met."
Original art
The New Yorker, February 18, 1991, page 60

Bernard Schoenbaum
"Gee, Mr. Wilson, you have more money than anyone I've ever met."
Original art
The New Yorker, February 18, 1991, page 60

Bernard Schoenbaum's signature

Detail of Mr. Wilson

eBay Listing Ended June 4, 2016

http://www.ebay.com/itm/benard-schoenbaum-new-yorker-cartoon-original-signed-art-comic-strip-/112007748830?hash=item1a142e9cde%3Ag%3AI0QAAOSwRjNXN8lC&nma=true&si=YQGb25QThn5Fxe78BW8tTy6VzZY%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

eBay Item Description

eBay Bid History
One bid at the close

Bernard Schoenbaum
"Gee, Mr. Wilson, you have more money than anyone I've ever met."
Original art
The New Yorker, February 18, 1991, page 60

Cartoon by Bernard Schoenbaum

https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/1991-02-18/flipbook/060/

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The Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #34

I think I got away with my entry in the Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #34. The drawing is by Charles Barsotti.

"Define what you mean by 'ill-gotten.'"
"Last week you said I shouldn't feel guilty."
"Can I pay you next week, Doc? Let me enjoy the moment."
"Do you have a vault for safe keeping?"
"May I tell you something in confidence?"

August 10, 2019 Update:  The Winner

Quick Links to the Attempted Bloggery Archives:

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Psychiatrists

The Cartoon Collections Caption Contest

The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest

The Moment Magazine Cartoon Caption Contest

All These Cartoon Caption Contests and More

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Charles Saxon's Rich Rabbit

How many rabbits carry a pocket watch? Only one. Original illustration art by New Yorker cartoonist Charles Saxon depicts Lewis Carroll's White Rabbit out of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. He is happily hopping along and flush with cash. Maybe he had a good day at the racetrack.

The White Rabbit cashes in
Charles Saxon original illustration art

Charles Saxon

eBay Listing c. August 2013

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Charles-Saxon-Original-Painting-Im-Late-New-Yorker-Magazine-Artist-/271242635232?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f275227e0

Charles Saxon
eBay Item Description

Note:  Does anyone know where and when this art was published?


Quick Links to the Attempted Bloggery Archives:

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Lewis Carroll

Rabbits

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