"Our current medical plan offers a three-day stay for a bullet in the groin ..." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Record ID: 
265893
Accession number: 
MA 11519
Author: 
Ziegler, Jack.
Published: 
1996.
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, Jan. 6, 1997.
Full published caption: "Our current medical plan offers a three-day stay for a bullet in the groin or torso, a two-day stay for a bullet in an extremity, and an overnight for superficial head wounds."

Inscriptions/Markings: 

"4/15/97"--in ink with artist's signature on verso ; The New Yorker barcode sticker A2491--on verso.

Summary: 

One mobster to another about the medical treatment within the health care plan their mafia organization offers.

Medium: 
Pen and black ink and porous pointed pen with graphite, on paper.
Dimensions: 
230 x 305 mm
Provenance: 
Melvin R. Seiden; Janine Luke.
Classification: