"Good evening. This is your ten o'clock newscast ... " : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
276228
Accession number: 
MA 11846
Author: 
Booth, George, 1926-
Published: 
20th century.
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 submitted to The New Yorker.
Full caption: "Good evening. This is your ten o'clock newscast. Rick Snyder reports from the George Washington bridge on a sixteen car smashup. Harry Uggams is in Queens to give us a follow-up on yesterday's bizarre sex crime. Neil Simmons covers a Terre Haute story of scuba divers competing for marbles in a huge vat of jello. Rodney Klein and Anita Menendez will offer their critique on this station's new matching blazers. And finally we will all nitpick our weatherman, Mister Fasial Huffines. Please stay tuned..."

Summary: 

Angry looking old man frowns while watching an endlessly droning television news broadcast.

Medium: 
Black ballpoint pen and porous pointed pen on paper.
Dimensions: 
304 x 227 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: