"The sun was shining, the bees were humming, the birds were singing. 'We're all going to have a wonderful time!' cried Billy." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
265853
Accession number: 
MA 12018
Author: 
Mahood, Kenneth, 1930-
Published: 
1993.
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 26, 1995.
Drawing is glued into a larger piece of folded manila paper.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Copyright 1993 The New Yorker Magazine, Inc. sticker--on bottom right verso.

Summary: 

In a children's bookstore, a man in a suit with a cellular phone reads a story entitled "Billy Pig's Picnic" to his child over the phone, as the sales clerk looks at him with surprise.

Medium: 
Porous pointed pen with pen and black ink, graphite and correction fluid, on paper.
Dimensions: 
321 x 265 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: