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"Has it ever occurred to anyone that if we stopped ..." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

BIB_ID
265845
Accession number
MA 11508
Creator
Ziegler, Jack.
Published
1995.
Credit line
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
Full published caption: "Has it ever occurred to anyone that if we stopped wearing these damned skirts we wouldn't have to march off to defend our manhood every five minutes?"
Original drawing for a cartoon published in The New Yorker, May 15, 1995.
228 x 303 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
"8/1/95" - in ink on verso with artist's signature; copyright 1995 The New Yorker Magazine, Inc. sticker on verso: AJ 5041. Note in pencil from art director/editor handwritten on verso requesting alterations to the kilts' appearance, with a drawing included to demonstrate. These editorial notes did not affect the final published product.
Provenance
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Summary
Men in kilts (Scotsmen?) with swords and clubs marching across a fenced in field.
Medium
Pen and black ink with porous pointed pen on paper.
Classification