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| Robert Day The Saturday Evening Post, December 20, 1952 Scan by Dick Buchanan |
Note: My thanks to Dick Buchanan for contributing this scan from his cartoon clip files. If I ever learn how to use a scanner, I hope to be as good at it as he is.
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Saturday, November 21, 2020
Robert Day: Holiday Inflation
Robert Day's 1952 cartoon about the turkey trade appeared in The Saturday Evening Post. Its publication was timed for the Christmas season and not for Thanksgiving. Still, it seems appropriate to post it now and to have it stand for all the coming holidays in which turkeys are consumed.
Friday, November 20, 2020
Ronald Searle: Lemon Hart Rum Tandem Bicycle Poster
Mr. Lemon Hart and Mr. Lamb take their respective dark rums for a ride on a tandem bicycle in an advertising poster by Ronald Searle. Here the campaign was, like the bicycle, built for two. It ran between 1951 and 1962, propelled forward for just over a decade despite that rather limp bicycle chain.
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| Ronald Searle eBay listing accessed November 20, 2020 https://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-vintage-poster-RUM-LEMON-HART-TANDEM-CYCLE-1956-Searle/153710443014?hash=item23c9db3a06:g:b5QAAOSwy6JdwEdi |
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| Ronald Searle eBay item description |
Note: Want to see more? Ronald Searle's work for the Lemon Hart Rum advertising campaign is exhaustively documented in a 2007 post by Matt Jones on Perpetua, the Ronald Searle tribute blog, here. It includes this very poster.
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Thursday, November 19, 2020
Ronald Searle: Mr. Lemon Hart Says: "How to Make Rum Drinks Like a Pro..."
Not later than 1963, importer Julius Wile Sons & Co. produced an eight-page booklet to introduce an American audience to Lemon Hart rum, the best selling rum in England. The short recipe collection bears the slightly ungainly title of Mr. Lemon Hart Says: "How to Make Rum Drinks Like a Pro..." The "pro" behind these mixed drink creations is credited as Don the Beachcomber of Hollywood. The drawings featuring Mr. Lemon Hart are the work of Ronald Searle, "the famous English cartoonist" (Americans!) who provided the distinctive look for the British advertising campaign. This year is his centenary, so he would have been in his forties when these illustrations were made. The booklet is rare today; hence the high price realized on eBay. The listing is archived here as a public service. Cheers!
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| Ronald Searle Mr. Lemon Hart Says: "How to Make Rum Drinks Like a Pro..." eBay listing ended October 13, 2020 |
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| Ronald Searle Mr. Lemon Hart Says: "How to Make Rum Drinks Like a Pro..." eBay item description |
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| Ronald Searle Mr. Lemon Hart Says: "How to Make Rum Drinks Like a Pro..." eBay bid history Four bidders have a go at it. |
February 26, 2022 Update: This booklet was advertised during the summer of 1963 in The New Yorker. I have therefore revised my original conjecture that the promotion first appeared in the 1950s.
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| https://archives.newyorker.com/newyorker/1963-07-20/flipbook/078/ |
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Wednesday, November 18, 2020
The Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #101
I've got nothing to say about the Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #101 that my dummy can't say for me. My captions are below. The drawing is by Robert Leighton.
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| "I feel you're not cut out for this business, and so does Jerry." "But you simply CAN'T downsize the dummy." "You skipped chapter one, didn't you?" "At some point we all need to commit." "You're talking out of both sides of your mouth." |
November 25, 2020 Update: The Winner
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Tuesday, November 17, 2020
June's Copy of The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker
The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker was published in 2004. June is a psychotherapist whose copy of the book was signed by four New Yorker cartoonists—Danny Shanahan, Michael Maslin, Liza Donnelly, and Peter Steiner—the first three of whom she was friends with locally. Her copy was offered at auction by Zicorn Arts on October 15 with what proved to be an overly optimistic estimate of $300-$400.
I was curious about where this was signed and who did the lettering "For June." I asked cartoonist Michael Maslin, who wisely conferred with his wife Liza Donnelly before responding:
We probably signed at the Merritt Bookstore in Red Hook (it's no longer there -- it's now a noodle shop). I have a very clear memory of us all sitting there signing a ton of those books. The lettering "For June!" could either be Liza or me -- I just showed it to her and she leaned to it being her. So, a toss-up, but likely her.
There you have it. The book received only a $100 bid and the lot was passed. But that doesn't mean the auction house and bidder didn't come to an agreement after the fact.
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| Danny Shanahan and Michael Maslin |
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| Liza Donnelly |
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| Peter Steiner |
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Industrial Crises The day a cake of soap sank at Procter and Gamble's Gluyas Williams |
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"Well, back to the old drawing board." Peter Arno
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| Claude Smith |
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| Lee Lorenz |
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"Oh dear! I've got all the husbands and wives separated, but I forgot about the live-togethers." William Hamilton |
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"Do you have any idea who I am?" Edward Koren |
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| "No comment." Jack Ziegler |
The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker
The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker
Zikorn Arts
Note: Cartoon collections such as this one, signed by several New Yorker cartoonists who each contribute a drawing, are just the sort of books that look great scanned and posted on a blog for all to read. If you've got the book, I've got the blog.
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Monday, November 16, 2020
My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #733
I hope you appreciate the sheer—or is it shear?—audacity of my entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #733 for November 16, 2020. The drawing is by Marisa Acocela.
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| "Apparently they'd prefer a wolf in polyester." |
November 23, 2020 Update: The Finalists
November 30, 2020 Update: I voted with Vancouver.
December 13, 2020 Update: The Winner
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Sunday, November 15, 2020
Stephen and Aviva's Copy of Maurice Sendak's What Can You Do With a Shoe?
Stephen Kroninger writes with images of his family copy of Beatrice Shenk de Regniers's What Can You Do With a Shoe? The book, illustrated by Maurice Sendak, was published in 1955 and was reissued in 1997. Sendak signed it at a private book launch party held at Simon and Schuster. Sendak misspelled the name of Stephen's wife and covered up the mistake by camouflaging it in the hair of a wild thing drawn on the spot. He then got the spelling right on the second attempt. A happy accident, I'd say.
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Photo by Stephen Kroninger |
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Photo by Stephen Kroninger |
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| Photo by Stephen Kroninger |
Note: Thanks to Stephen Kroninger for sharing his book with us. This is Stephen's 35th contribution to Attempted Bloggery.
Books with original sketches by Maurice Sendak are welcome here, even if he made a mistake.
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Saturday, November 14, 2020
The New Yorker Bound: The 1980s
A decade's worth of bound volumes of The New Yorker, fifty-four in number, have been withdrawn from the library of the California Institute of Technology. Its loss is now someone else's gain. The price on eBay, $995 inclusive of shipping, seems eminently reasonable if not a downright bargain.
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| The New Yorker Magazine February 1980 to November 1990, 54 Bound Volumes eBay listing ended September 17, 2020 |
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| The New Yorker Magazine February 1980 to November 1990 Bound 54 eBay item description |
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| The New Yorker Magazine February 1980 to November 1990, 54 Bound Volumes |
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| Rea Irvin February 25, 1980 |
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| Heidi Goennel October 4, 1982 |
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| Iris Van Rynbach May 16, 1988 |
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| The New Yorker Magazine February 1980 to November 1990, 54 Bound Volumes |
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| Devera Ehrenberg June 27, 1988 |
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| George Booth July 7, 1980 |
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| Pierre Le-Tan September 15, 1980 |
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| The New Yorker Magazine February 1980 to November 1990, 54 Bound Volumes |
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| Charles Saxon August 11, 1980 |
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