Speaking of Jack Ziegler, he also illustrated this not long ago:

Fictoids? They are, writes Dutcher in Fictoids: Short Fiction ... Very Short ($12 in hardcover from Dutcher & Co. Inc.), "a bit of fictional history, making a statement or telling a story in one sentence. A typical fictoid tells who did what, when and where. A fictoid may even be partially true, but is never entirely true, or it would be a factoid. In fact, a fictoid is just a fictional factoid."

Dutcher's Web site (www.fictoids.com) explains that he got the idea in the late '90s watching CNN and its fascination with factoids.... No more wading through a long story to get to the stupid ending. The stupid ending is contained in the first sentence!

The invention of fictoids is also the story of a self-publisher. As Dutcher writes on his site, "In 2003, encouraged by family and friends, I decided to put my favorites into a self-published book. This led to a long period of negotiating with myself over which fictoids should be in the book. By this time, I had written hundreds of fictoids, but my inner-editor felt some of the fictoids were too easy, too abstract or just not funny enough to justify being in the book. There was also the issue of how many fictoids should be in the book.

"Once it was decided that the book should be around 200 pages, the editing continued, but each time I would write a new fictoid I would delete an old one." Dutcher goes on to say how he picked the illustrator, New Yorker cartoonist Jack Ziegler. Turns out you can go on the New Yorker Web site and pretty much hire their cartoonists. So he did.
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In the meantime, to the fictoids.... "In 1928, Fannie Footloose, a highfalutin flip flapper who loved to shimmy and Charleston, shocked Newport's high society when she suddenly fled the social scene and sailed off for Paris with foppish fashion photographer F. Stop Fitzgerald." More; sample fictoids.

I also decided the book needed some illustrations. Whenever I think of cartoons, I think of the The New Yorker magazine. So I went to their website and discovered they had set up a Cartoon Bank, where you can license the use of New Yorker cartoons, or hire cartoonists to draw new ones. After reviewing the online samples of several cartoonists they recommended, I hired Jack Ziegler as our illustrator last fall.

We selected thirteen fictoids to be illustrated, and Jack came up with the idea for the cover illustration and drew it as well. I felt that his work was so good, it raised the bar for the quality of the writing. This led to another round of editing....