Attempted Bloggery

Today the term  dis is informal for disrespectful talk or action, but perhaps it can stand for other words as well. Eldon Dedini's two...

In half a minute Mrs. Cratchit entered—flushed, but smiling proudly—with the pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing...

There is, alas, no such place as Stubville, Nebraska, but that in no way diminishes the plausibility of Edward Gorey's 1987 Christmas c...

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk, And laying his finger aside of hi...

Dick Buchanan just dropped off an old Christmas cartoon by Gardner Rea. It was printed in two colors, black and green, in the December 23,...

"Have fun storming the castle!" —"The Princess Bride" (1987) This week, I had fun storming The New Yorker  Cartoon Capti...

Chanukah must be upon us, judging from Moment  magazine's Cartoon Caption Contest for the November/December 2022 issue. My several capt...

It looks for all the world like a mass market Cartoon Bank collection but  The New Yorker Book of Christmas Cartoons was published in 2004 ...

Michael ffolkes's 1970 Playboy cartoon depicts a lifestyle of casual sex that was surely more male fantasy than reality. The mistletoe...

“A woman [Mrs. Eliza Powel of Philadelphia] asked Dr. Franklin well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy[?]—A republic replied t...