# Did anyone see this cartoon? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 20, 2015, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-see-this-cartoon/731981 "2015-09-20T17:54:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-see-this-cartoon/731981/1 "2015-09-20T17:54:43Z")
I saw this sometime last week, but I cannot recall where. I looked through the last two issues of the New Yorker and it wasn’t there. It showed two or three men on high steel. But it wasn’t ordinary high steel, but an impossible design. One of the men is shouting down: “Escher, get your ass up here.” ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-see-this-cartoon/731981/2 "2015-09-20T17:57:19Z")
this one? [http://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/Escher-Get-your-ass-up-here-New-Yorker-Cartoon-Prints\_i9373588\_.htm](http://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/Escher-Get-your-ass-up-here-New-Yorker-Cartoon-Prints_i9373588_.htm) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-see-this-cartoon/731981/3 "2015-09-20T17:57:58Z")
Maybe [this](http://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/Escher-Get-your-ass-up-here-New-Yorker-Cartoon-Prints_i9373588_.htm)? Crap! I’ve been Merc-ed! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-see-this-cartoon/731981/4 "2015-09-20T17:58:43Z")
[Here ya go.](http://imgc-cn.artprintimages.com/images/P-473-488-90/67/6740/HA7Z100Z/posters/robert-leighton-escher-get-your-ass-up-here-new-yorker-cartoon.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-see-this-cartoon/731981/5 "2015-09-20T17:59:45Z")
Triple play! ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-see-this-cartoon/731981/6 "2015-09-20T18:50:00Z")
Three correct answers to a question in four minutes. We may have a new record. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-see-this-cartoon/731981/7 "2015-09-20T21:14:36Z")
Well if you look at the impossible steel it \*does \*form a triangle. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-see-this-cartoon/731981/8 "2015-09-20T22:25:48Z")
Bingo. All of the above. So it was the New Yorker. Does anyone know when? Why couldn’t I find it. I went through the last two page by page. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-see-this-cartoon/731981/9 "2015-09-20T22:28:40Z")
Is it just me; I think it would have been funnier if the caption was “Escher, get your ass down here!” Alternatively, the guy who’s yelling could be looking up. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-see-this-cartoon/731981/10 "2015-09-21T00:15:26Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > Does anyone know when? There’s actually text at this link: > [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > this one? > [http://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/Escher-Get-your-ass-up-here-New-Yorker-Cartoon-Prints\_i9373588\_.htm](http://www.condenaststore.com/-sp/Escher-Get-your-ass-up-here-New-Yorker-Cartoon-Prints_i9373588_.htm) According to it: > [@](#): > > Original artwork available for this print! > > For original art inquiries, please call 212-286-7133 or email [originalart@newyorkerstore.com](mailto:originalart@newyorkerstore.com) > > Published February 4, 2013 > > “Escher! Get your ass up here.” > > A men works on the sky scraper beams as the foreman calls down for more workers. All typos from original sources. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-see-this-cartoon/731981/11 "2015-09-21T00:34:08Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Is it just me; I think it would have been funnier if the caption was “Escher, get your ass down here!” > > Alternatively, the guy who’s yelling could be looking up. Or standing sideways on one of the upright beams. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-see-this-cartoon/731981/12 "2015-09-21T08:43:16Z")
The other guy should be standing on the bottom of the other beam.