Monday, February 23, 2026

My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #979

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In  The New Yorker  Cartoon Caption Contest #979 from the issue of February 16 & 23, 2026, a family goes on an outing in a car that is l...
Sunday, February 22, 2026

My Entries in the Moment Cartoon Caption Contest for Winter 2026

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Moment  magazine's   Cartoon Caption Contest for the Winter 2026 issue anticipates spring. One elderly, Orthodox man's shtreimel has...
Saturday, February 21, 2026

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, No. 496/1130

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Peter Harrington Antiquarian Bookseller  of London offers a rare copy of the 1907 edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis ...
Friday, February 20, 2026

Jean-Michel Folon's L'artiste With an Original Drawing

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Bookseller Pascal Coudert of Paris offers a copy of L'artiste (F.I.D.H., 1991) with text by Raymond Devos and illustrations by Jean-Mi...
Thursday, February 19, 2026

Sam Cobean: A Golf Shot

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A work of original New Yorker art by Sam Cobean was sold yesterday at Heritage Auctions: Sam Cobean Original art The New Yorker,  June 11, ...
Tuesday, February 17, 2026

John Held, Jr.: Map of New York Night Clubs

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In the Prohibition Era, researching  John Held, Jr.'s, Map of New York Night Clubs must have been a labor of love. The map, we are tol...
Monday, February 16, 2026

A Letter From Jean-Jacques Sempé to Angelo Rinaldi

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A letter from the year 2000 consists of a mailing envelope and its contents: a signed and inscribed postcard as well as a signed and inscrib...
Sunday, February 15, 2026

Edward Koren: A Bucket for a Giant Frog

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Some original illustrations make no sense without the context of their original purpose. One can enjoy, surely,  Edward Koren's undated...
Saturday, February 14, 2026

Blog Post No. 5200: A Charles Addams Movie Theater Scream

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Original Charles Addams art published in  The New Yorker issue of February 8, 1947 shows a theater full of moviegoers and their shared rea...