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Today the advertising campaign for Flit insecticide is remembered mostly for the fanciful artwork of Dr. Seuss and the effective tag line...

Helen E. Hokinson's  delightful cartoons reflect a bygone patrician age. Here one of her plump, well-to-do matrons reveals a surprising...

A 1940 cartoon by Barbara Shermund from Collier's inquires whether it's ever too soon to begin to plan a wedding. The gag shows u...

The eBay description for this original cartoon art by Barbara Shermund has two pieces of information regarding its publication. First the ...

A Barbara Shermund color cartoon is dated August 1955. The New Yorker, of course, was published weekly at the time and  Esquire, with   w...

In the 1950's and for decades before and afterward, color cartoons were simply never published in the New Yorker. Nevertheless, on eBay...

A piece of original color cartoon art by Dorothy McKay is being offered at auction today at 1 p.m. The sale is being held at Illustration ...

Here is my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #418 for March 10, 2014. The cartoon is by Tom Cheney, but I created the comfy...

This cartoon by George Hand Wright from the old Life may date from the 1920's. Captions were generally a ponderous affair in those da...

This illustration of Esther for Radio Times was a part of artist Eric Fraser's estate. It was included by Chris Beetles Gallery in a ...