Bob Eckstein
- Location
- New York City, New York,
- Birthday
- February 27
- Title
- Publisher of Today's Snowman.com
- Bio
- Snowman expert, author of The History of the Snowman and cartoonist for the New Yorker, Reader's Digest, Wall Street Journal and others.
Twitter; snowmanexpert
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Thank you for providing
the links (I'm not on Open
Salon on a
regular basis and
I…”
February 08, 2010 01:02PM - “Fantastic. I was put on
a low/no salt diet after blood
tests
Friday as a result
t…”
February 08, 2010 10:37AM - “Thanks, Grape.”
February 06, 2010 01:01PM - “No, I'm not giving up
sexting or cartooning for Lent
(and I
can't give up TV
for…”
February 06, 2010 11:38AM - “Delia, I was referring
to Open Salon.”
February 04, 2010 11:02PM
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Not only was this the first museum exhibition of Steampunk art but it was the most popular event the Museum of the History of Science has ever had. The show is in Oxford, England and up until February 21st for those in the area.
Snowman Collection, Top 10 (Christmas Day Edition)
Snowman Collection, Top 100 (Nine For Christmas Eve)
I'm Spending Christmas on Horse Tranquilizers
And it's not because I'm spending three days with my family. Last night I was up all night very sick and just get a prescription filled.
At the same time a wonderful blogger here on Open Salon informed me that her mother passed away. She just bought a signed copy… Read full post »
Snowman Collection, Top 100 (The Far East, #60–#46)
Today's are photographs have no historical importance but make up the sweetest images in my collection to warm up this cold spell.
The Snowman Collection – Top 100 (#81 through #72)
I'm going to take it up a notch. I decided to continue posting dialy but at ten items at a time. Here my following has dwindled to under ten people (thanks to the faithful stilll here) and I will return to my blog, Today's Snowman (not sure what happened here as… Read full post »
The Snowman Collection – Top 100 (#91 through #82)
I'm going to take it up a notch. I decided to continue posting dialy but at ten items at a time. Here my following has dwindled to under ten people (thanks to the faithful stilll here) and I will return to my blog, Today's Snowman (not sure what happened here as… Read full post »
The Snowman Collection – Top 100 (#92)
This winter I want to share my favorite snowmen from my personal stash of over 1,000 antique collectibles, photographs and artwork. The collection was on display at the Albright Memorial Library in Scranton, PA (and on TV a couple of times). Each day I will post a countdown of the top… Read full post »
The Snowman Collection – Top 100 (#93)
This winter I want to share my favorite snowmen from my personal stash of over 1,000 antique collectibles, photographs and artwork. The collection was on display at the Albright Memorial Library in Scranton, PA (and on TV a couple of times). Each day I will post a countdown of the top… Read full post »
The Snowman Collection – Top 100 (#94)
The Snowman Collection – Top 100 (#96)
The Snowman Collection – Top 100 (#97)
The Snowman Collection – Top 100 (#98)
The Snowman Collection – Top 100 (#100)
This winter I wanted to share my favorite snowmen from my personal stash of close to 1,000 antique collectibles, photographs and artwork. The entire collection was on display at the Albright Memorial Library in Scranton, Pennsylvania (and on television a couple of times). Each day I will post a count… Read full post »
I have the worst luck! Just as I'm getting some press as a snowman expert, along comes this Tiger Woods stealing my spotlight. The thanks I get for being a spectacular husband.
I actually drew up a couple of questionable Tiger Woods cartoons when the latest wrinkle of the… Read full post »
Welcome to Part VI of the popular 18 part series on writing your first novel presented by those who don't know jack. Actually, that's not true as I'm actually surrounded by people in the know and fortunate to benefit from their insight. Three neighbors of mine are higher ups in one… Read full post »

In light of my ill-timed cartoon yesterday on writers shooting themselves and some of the mud-slingin, name-calling posts (crap headlines like; "Why Do ---holes Join OS?" Gee, why don't you tell us, buddy? If I hear another dirtbag making fun of another OS writer I swear I'm… Read full post »
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