One of the most famous New Yorker cartoons of all-time, and apparently the most-reprinted of all the New Yorker’s cartoons in its illustrious nearly century-long history, Peter Steiner’s 1993 cartoon, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog,” has set a new single panel comic sales record at a recent Heritage Auction, fetching $175,000 after the cartoon was caught up in a bidding war.There were a number of other notable sales at the Oct. 6 auction, with over $1.3 million in sales for just slightly more than 400 lots of Illustration Art, but the most significant was the record-setting Steiner sale.The 1993 cartoon came out at a time when the internet was still in its infancy, as least it terms of the American public consciousness. It has since become a celebrated statement about the dangers of the internet, and its ability to mask who is out there behind the other screens communicating with you. Amusingly, Steiner told Heritage that the cartoon really “wasn’t about the internet at all. It was about my sense that I’m getting away with something.”RELATED: Heritage Auctions’ Ultimate Batman Collection Gives Fans the Chance to Own a Rare Piece of Bat-History
One of the most famous New Yorker cartoons of all-time, and apparently the most-reprinted of all the New Yorker‘s cartoons in its illustrious nearly century-long history, Peter Steiner’s 1993 cartoon, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog,” has set a new single panel comic sales record at a recent Heritage Auction, fetching $175,000 after the cartoon was caught up in a bidding war.
There were a number of other notable sales at the Oct. 6 auction, with over $1.3 million in sales for just slightly more than 400 lots of Illustration Art, but the most significant was the record-setting Steiner sale.
The 1993 cartoon came out at a time when the internet was still in its infancy, as least it terms of the American public consciousness. It has since become a celebrated statement about the dangers of the internet, and its ability to mask who is out there behind the other screens communicating with you. Amusingly, Steiner told Heritage that the cartoon really “wasn’t about the internet at all. It was about my sense that I’m getting away with something.”
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