Monday, November 24, 2025

Sunset From the East River

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I was awed tonight by the light of the setting sun as seen from the East River. There is brilliant color behind the 59th Street Bridge and a...

My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #969

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In  The New Yorker  Cartoon Caption Contest #969 from the issue of November 24, 2025, we see a restaurant table where a horn of plenty has b...
Sunday, November 23, 2025

My Copy of Where There's Smoke, There's Dinner by Jennifer Hayden

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On Wednesday evening, I went to Labyrinth Books in Princeton to hear comix memoirist  Jennifer Hayden in conversation with Summer Pierre. ...

License Plate for a Keyboard Artist?

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Could this be the car of a fellow blogger? "QWERTY" New York State license plate 05131
Saturday, November 22, 2025

Peter Arno: Not the Crosstown Bus

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What cartoonist, one may ask, seems more at home drawing the inside of a police van than Peter Arno? A work of original art from a 1937 iss...
Friday, November 21, 2025

Charles Addams: A Lesson in Knots

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Yesterday Nate D. Sanders Auctions of Los Angeles sold an original 1941 cartoon from The New Yorker by the matchless Charles Addams. Charle...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Barbara Shermund: Working Girl

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Yesterday at Heritage Auctions, a fine original cartoon by Barbara Shermund was sold. It's a color piece from her syndicated panel seri...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Barbara Westman: Hanover Street, Boston

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Before she illustrated seventeen covers for The New Yorker  between the years 1983 and 1992, much of Barbara Westman's art celebrated o...