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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Stan Hunt: The View From the Porch Swing

In 2016, a rough drawing by cartoonist Stan Hunt changed hands on eBay.

"Darling, your eyes are like limpid pools! . . . What's the
matter[,] aren't you getting enough sleep?"
Stan Hunt

The drawing with Stan Hunt's signature, lower right, in pencil

Typewritten caption (missing a comma)

Verso

Hunt relocated from Manhattan to Rowayton, Connecticut. (Cartoonist Carl Rose also lived in this town.)

The eBay listing identifies Hunt as a newspaper cartoonist. But as a New Yorker cartoonist whose work appeared in the magazine from 1956 to 1990 (according to Ink Spill), Hunt should be recognized for attaining the highest level of magazine cartooning.

Stan Hunt
eBay listing ended June 5, 2016

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-Pencil-Drawn-Cartoon-by-STAN-HUNT-Newspaper-Cartoonist-/262493937198?hash=item3d1ddb9e2e%3Ag%3AdAEAAOSwZ8ZW5Cqi&nma=true&si=YQGb25QThn5Fxe78BW8tTy6VzZY%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Stan Hunt
eBay item description

In 2016, the piece sold for a best offer of $15.

Note: The current owner of the original art has posted it here.

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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Ed Arno's Screened-In Porch

Often eBay sellers bring a unique understanding of art market terms to their listings. Here what looks for all the world like a finished ink drawing by Ed Arno is signed twice, somehow raising the question of whether it is actually a print. A man finds refuge reading a newspaper on a screened-in porch while two women inside the house share what must be a pithy comment that is lost to us. The drawing—or print if you trust the seller's description—demonstrates an easy command of depth and perspective. The contradictory item description then goes on to describe this as a two-page drawing with a pink overlay, the description possibly belonging to a different eBay listing altogether.