Attempted Bloggery

Will my entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #711 for the issue of March 25, 2020 be scored as an error? The drawing is by John...

In yesterday's post, readers may recall, I got on my high horse and very matter-of-factly stated that the copy in a 1949 Alemite ad by ...

A vintage 1948 print advertisement for Alemite car lubricant presents a family-oriented pitch. We are told "The Holdens discovered tha...

J. C. Duffy's cartoon imagining a statue of comedian Henny Youngman is remarkable enough to have been purchased by the New Yorker an...

With his New Yorker cartoon of May 30, 2011, J. C. Duffy once again demonstrates his ability to give an old idea a new and unexpected twis...