Mad magazine art auction, McSweeny’s T-shirts and a Le Clezio story
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The last batch of original artwork from Mad magazine’s archives is going up for auction in November. The online component to the auction is underway: Norman Mingo’s 1956 painting of Alfred E. Neuman, above, which marked the character’s emergence as the magazine’s cover boy and included the enduring phrase ‘What, me worry?’ is bid at more than $5,000.
McSweeney’s has a new L.A.-ish T-shirt: What happens in the La Brea Tar Pits stays in the La Brea Tar Pits. Right now, all their T-shirts are on sale for less than twenty bucks.
Deb Olin Unferth’s book ‘Vacation’ is published by McSweeny’s; on Largehearted Boy, she talks about how a misheard lyric is like her novel.
The Oct. 27 issue of the New Yorker includes the story ‘The Boy Who Had Never Seen the Sea’ -- it’s the first the magazine has published by Nobel Laureate Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio. The issue hits newsstands today; unfortunately, the story is not yet online.
-- Carolyn Kellogg
Image courtesy Heritage Auction Galleries.
