(NEW YORKER) CHARLES ADDAMS (1912 1988) And then I disconnected the booster from the Electro Snuggie blanket

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Sale 2690 - Lot 56

Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 20,000

(NEW YORKER) CHARLES ADDAMS (1912-1988)
"And then I disconnected the booster from the Electro-Snuggie blanket."

Cartoon published in The New Yorker, October 30, 1948. Ink and wash on board. 444x312 mm; 17½x12¼ inches (image). 23 ½x17½ inches (frame). Signed in lower right image. Label on frame verso indicates that "This merchandise as contributed to the KQED auction by" with no information filled out.

Entire caption is written in pencil below image, "...and then I disconnected the booster from the Electro-Snuggie blanket and put him in the deep-freeze. In the morning, I defrosted him and ran him through the Handi Home slicer and then the Jiffy Burger Grind, and after that I fed him down the Dispose-All. Then I washed my clothes in Bendix, tidied up the kitchen, and went to a movie."

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