My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #884

Mr. Peanut shows an apartment to a large elephant in silhouette in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #884 from the issue of February 5, 2024. My caption is shown below. The drawing is by Lonnie Millsap.

"The house rules say no stomping late at night and absolutely no peanut shells."

This caption didn't move me:

"Most of your sort have moved upstate."

February 23, 2024 Update:  The Finalists

March 2, 2024 Update:  I voted for the caption from Austin.

March 9, 2024 Update:  The Winner

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Arthur Rackham: Endpapers to The Compleat Angler by Izaac Walton

The endpaper to Arthur Rackham's 1931 illustrated edition of Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler is a silhouette depicting two men fishing. He colored the origibal ink drawing with a sepia wash. The work was offered at Doyle New York on November 7 with an estimate of $7,000 to $10,000. It sold for just $4,410 with the buyer's premium. 

As published:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/THE-COMPLEAT-ANGLER-1931-Izaak-Walton-ARTHUR-RACKHAM-David-McKay-1st-Edition-/123044899852?_ul=IL

Arthur Rackham
Doyle New York sale of November 7, 2023

https://www.doyle.com/auction/lot/lot-330---arthur-rackhams-watercolors-for-the-endpapers-of-the-compleat-angler/?lot=1367365&so=0&st=&sto=0&au=8102&ef=&et=&ic=False&sd=1&pp=96&pn=4&g=1

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A Vip Marketing Exclusive!

Cartoonist Virgil Partch, who signed his name Vip, marketed his services to potential advertisers with a small promotional brochure. On its cover we repeatedly see the word exclusive! In its pages, VIP suggests his cartooning style has broad appeal to the general public and translates well into different advertising media. He depicts consumers here as silhouettes and gives examples of the manner in which he might market to them, each featuring a man holding a box representing the client's product. Likely used over several years, the brochure makes specific reference to the early days of television animation and could potentially date from the late 1950s or thereabout. The entire pamphlet has been scanned for us by Stephen Kroninger.

Note:  My thanks to Stephen Kroninger for putting his scanner to good use.

Attempted Bloggery seeks original art or published rarities by Virgil Partch. 

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Arthur Rackham: The Sleeping Beauty with a Drawing of Merlin

Arthur Rackham's illustrations for The Sleeping Beauty (1920) by C. S. Evans are mostly executed in silhouette, but a souvenir drawing of the character Merlin dated Christmas 1920 and laid into a first edition of the book is decidedly not. Merlin, his facial expression visible, is shown intently thumbing through one of his "books of magic lore."

Arthur Rackham
Merlin
Signed and dated Christmas 1920

Arthur Rackham
AbeBooks Listing Retrieved December 14, 2018

https://www.abebooks.com/Sleeping-Beauty-Evans-Rackham-Arthur-London/30174990731/bd?cm_ven=nl&cm_cat=trg&cm_pla=want_CM&cm_ite=readmore_low

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25451/25451-h/25451-h.htm

Note:  Books by Arthur Rackham containing original drawings are somewhat scarce and always worth a look. Please send along scans or photographs of whatever you can conjure through magic lore.

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