Sunday, October 28, 2018
GOOD SCHLOCK, BAD SCHLOCK
When I was a kid the excellent John Zacherle, as Roland, hosted horror movies in Philadelphia. When he took his show to New York, changing his character's name to Zacherley, he was replaced by the not-so-excellent Dr. Shock.
Same schtick, different schlock value.
AYE, THERE'S THE RUB
For Christian Rub, the good news was that he landed a role in a Dracula movie. The bad news was that he played "Dead Man at Inquest."
Friday, October 26, 2018
Monday, October 22, 2018
CRASS COMMERCIALISM
If a person were to ever buy a New Yorker cartoon of mine on a coffee mug, this is what it would look like, hypothetically.
WORD WARS
Various people seem to be claiming credit for inventing this word, so I'll throw my hat in the ring with this old greeting card of mine. The copyright on the back reads 1982.
Sunday, October 21, 2018
Friday, October 19, 2018
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
BACK PAGE BINGO
I did finally manage to sell the New Yorker one cartoon for The Back Page before they switched to the Caption Contest.
MY BACK PAGES
Years ago, before the New Yorker's back page contained the Caption Contest, it was (cleverly) called The Back Page. Here are four submissions of mine that they rejected back then.
