…and now a word from our sponsor.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN called it “[the] famous poster by Gerry Mooney”. It’s been referenced everywhere from Encyclopedia Britannica to The Simpsons. I’ve sold over 5,000, to teachers, lawyers, pilots and even regular people. A parole officer in Florida ordered six for his clients.

I first published the Gravity Poster as a two-color promotional mailer for my illustration business when I landed in New York. It caught the attention of the editor at ISAAC ASIMOV’S SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINE and they asked if I could spin this humor up into a regular feature for their magazine. Thus began a three-year gig with my “Mooney’s Module” feature appearing in each and every issue beginning in July 1982, until they found me and had me escorted from the building.

Some of the wacky ideas they let me get away with. A few of these were later published as color postcards.

In 1986 I published the glossy, full color version, sold a bunch, and then Al Gore or someone invented the internet, and I sold a bunch more. It has been reproduced and analyzed in books on law, medicine and philosophy. It was developed into a fake radio ad by the American Comedy Network.

Page 72 of the February, 2004 issue of Scientific American. You could look it up.

And it turns out I still have a couple laying around! So if you like a little levity with your gravity, the price is still the same, $15.95 covers the poster and all postage and handling, and I personally pack and ship each one. You can have them autographed, or sent to another address, or both, why not.

All orders are processed through PayPal, a trustworthy and secure gateway, and you don’t need a PayPal account to pay this way.

Sorry but at this time my PayPal account can only accept U.S. orders. If you want to order one for overseas delivery, drop me a line and it can be easily arranged.

Click here to visit the purchase page and to read the HISTORY OF GRAVITY!

Also, some great framing news…

When I published the Gravity Poster at 16″x24″, it was a nice size for the poster, but it was never a standard frame size, so framing the Gravity Poster could get expensive, or you just stuck it up with thumbtacks.

But these days, it’s the same dimensions as a digital photo, so 16″x24″ is now a standard frame size and is easily available at Michael’s, Amazon, or any art or framing place. You can get the Gravity Poster into a frame for around twenty bucks.

Thanks again for stopping by my blog! Dickens will return soon, and in the meantime you can drop me a line at dickens@mooneyart.com.

Author: mooney2021

I worked as a commercial illustrator in the New York market for over 40 years, creating work for such clients as The New Republic, Forbes, Parents, Prevention Magazine, Consumer Reports, Publishers Weekly, Institutional Investor, Black Enterprise, MAD, CBS, American Express, and others. I spent the last fifteen years of my career creating litigation graphics, i.e., anything a lawyer may need to present in court, including video editing, animation, interactive graphics, text screens, and illustration. I worked on many cases that you read about in the papers assuming you were reading papers fifteen years ago! I'm also a longtime Charles Dickens fan and spent five years illustrating his great BLEAK HOUSE with 40 new linoleum cut graphics. I've done linoleum printing demonstrations in bookstores, was an invited speaker at the University of London's "Dickens Day" in 2025, and will be teaching a week-long linoleum printing class at The Dickens Universe at UC Santa Cruz in July 2026.

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