Licensing for New Yorker cartoonist J. B. Handelsman is now exclusively available on CartoonStock! J. B. Handelsman drew nearly a thousand New Yorker cartoons (and five covers), published between 1961 and 2007. His work also appeared regularly in Playboy and the British humorous magazine Punch. Handelsman may be better known for his captions than for…
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“Unicorn Meeting” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
John Klossner’s cartoon is set in a conference room. Three unicorns in business suits are meeting with a man. One of these mythological creatures is holding a document (maybe a report or a resume) and addressing the man. I first imagined they were discussing sales figures and projections: “Are these numbers real?” “If we don’t improve…
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No Place but Home
Spring is here, and vacation season should be just around the corner. Or is it actually around the corner after that? Or maybe no vacation at all while we’re cornered at home? Whose fault is this? Pretty obvious. Other people. Lots of them. Fortunately, there’s plenty of blame to go around, which is better than…
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Anatomy of a Cartoon: Triumph of the Introverts
Cartoon critics Phil Witte and Rex Hesner look behind gags to debate what makes a cartoon tick. This week our intrepid critics take a look at introverts. Lockdown … social distance … shelter-in-place. These terms cause the extroverts among us to quail, “Will this ever end?” For another group, however, those concepts are gifts from…
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