"'I don't get it.' 'You never get it.'" : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
266709
Accession number: 
MA 11711
Author: 
Mankoff, Robert.
Published: 
1987.
Credit: 
The Melvin R. Seiden Collection. Gift of Janine Luke in honor of William M. Griswold and in memory of Melvin R. Seiden, 2011.
Description: 
1 drawing.
Notes: 

Original drawing for a cartoon published in The New Yorker, June 15, 1987.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

"PnGA 941" -- in pencil on verso.

Summary: 

Traditional Greek theatrical masks representing tragedy and comedy have different reactions to a joke.

Medium: 
Black porous pointed pen with typed caption on paper.
Dimensions: 
217 x 280 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: