"See, the problem with doing things to prolong your life is that all the extra years come at the end, when you're old" : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
265866
Accession number: 
MA 11514
Author: 
Mankoff, Robert.
Published: 
1994.
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, Aug. 8, 1994.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

"11/29/94" - in ink on verso with artist's signature; copyright 1993 The New Yorker Magazine, Inc. sticker on verso: AJ 1690. Editorial inquiry written in pencil on verso: "No ash tray?": drawing was not altered further for publication.

Summary: 

One man smoking a cigarette and drinking in a bar to another man who is drinking but not smoking.

Medium: 
Porous pointed pen with graphite on paper.
Dimensions: 
230 x 305 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: