i have a tattoo of a charles addams cartoon on my chest
it is one of his better known pieces and features two unicorns standing on an island as they watch the ark float away in the distance
yes, this was his idea originally and walt disney ripped it from him
anyway
i had the tattoo done from a copy that a friend of mine had in a book of his cartoons
the artist painstakingly, let me say that again - painstakingly, spent about 5hours creating the 5cm by 7 cm masterpiece
a large portion of this time was spent brushing in dilluted grey ink to help create the major storm effect
sadly, he dilluted the ink too much and the tattoo needs the storm effect
the original copy i used to get it done is no more as my friend reached a point in her life where throwing all her earthly possesions in a lake made a lot of sense to her
no, she does not ride a unicycle
the estate of charles addams have requested that his work never be put on the internet and since i’m loathe to haul out major $$$'s i could be spending on unicycling to buy a book for only one pic, and since i can’t get a copy on the web anywhere, i thought i’d come here and ask if anyone here has access to a copy of this cartoon
It appeared in the March 10, 1956 issue Vol 32 No 3 (the volume and no are important cause that it apparently how they have them listed) of the new yorker magazine
if anyone could find. scan and email me a copy of this pic, i would be remarkably appreciative
if u incur any cost in doing so, i would happily refund u the cost of the beer u had to drink in order to get in the mood
whatever
u know what i mean
You win the understatement of the day award!
Let me get this straight: You want to find someone who has a certain obsure cartoon about unicorns and the ark, which can’t be found on the internet, to send you a copy so that the storm can be re-tatooed onto your chest. Is that about right?
(I wanted to bump this back to the top because even if no one can help you, everyone has to read your request!)
Oh, and good luck! Edit I just looked up Charles Addams and discovered who he is. He’s the one who came up with the Addams Family.
Ok, Dave is being overly verbose and including details that are obscuring his simple need, so I’m going to help out.
What he needs is for page 44 of the March 10, 1956 (Vol 32 No 3) New Yorker magazine to be scanned and emailed to him.
Big city and university libraries are likely to have this. Smaller local ones will not.
I made a phone call and found out that the University of Washington Library has this issue available both as a physical copy and on microfiche. Wink, wink, hint, hint, Greg Harper. (You’re the first person at a big University on this newsgroup who came to mind so I checked your institution out first.)
Do not allow Dave’s elaborate explanation for why he wants it to confuse the matter. It is a simple request that a single page of an old magazine be copied, scanned and emailed. Nothing more.
There’s actually a chance I might be able to find it. There’s several boxes of old New Yorker magazines in the attic of an abandoned farmhouse which some relatives of mine own in Sweden. Unfortunately I think they’re from the early sixties, but I could have a look.
I won’t be able to go there until next summer, so I hope someone else can help you before that.
Edit: So, I was overtaken while typing.
I’ll just relax now, knowing JJuggle is on the case.
I volunteer. Send me a plane ticket and a little expense money, and I’ll go find the issue for you. Please put the depature dates about a month or two apart.
I called the library system here. The New Yorker back issues are library use only and I can’t check it out. If I could get it to the lab or my home I could scan it. I could only photocopy it in the library which I don’t think will give you the color or resolution that you want. The best I could do is go in and covertly photograph it with my digital camera. Let me know if you get no better offers.
Please e-mail me: harper at unicyclist dot com, if you want to go this route.
understatedly verbose?
that fits in with my decorating style - upmarketly bohemian,
my position on social order - dogmatic anarchist
and my opinion on ideal dress-sense - eurocentrically indiginous
… there was green alligators, and long-necked geese;
some humpty-backed camels and some chimpanzees;
some cats and rats and eliphants but sure as you’re born;
there ain’t gonna be no unicorns!
as sung by the Irish Rovers on the album “Years May Come, Years may Go”
We learned this song in 4th grade… hmm… that would be… ah fergit it!
Gild, do you know if the magazine was ever sold in the UK? I live very close to a proof library that has every copyrighted piece of material for the last several hundred years in it. If it was the chances are I can obtain and photocopy it. I’ll find out how to make an enquiry.
FYI
the New-Yorker published last year a big book with all its cartoons + a CD with really all its cartoons.
I offered it to my dad … but I do not have it at hand (My dad lives far far away).
