"The Artistic Career of Corky" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves.

The artist Corky, a friend of Bertie's, wants to get approval from his uncle to marry his fiancée Muriel.

His friend, Bruce "Corky" Corcoran, a struggling artist, relies on an allowance from his rich uncle Alexander Worple, who runs a jute business.

Jeeves, taking inspiration from Worple's comment, believes that the picture could be the foundation for a series of comedic drawings, and suggests the title "The Adventures of Baby Blobbs".

I'm a bit foggy as to what jute is, but it's apparently something the populace is pretty keen on, for Mr. Worple had made quite an indecently large stack out of it.

"[4] In contrast to Bertie, Jeeves speaks in a continuously lofty, formal manner, with long sentences and a high proportion of scholarly words.

Jeeves's speech is sometimes used as a source of humour, such as when Bertie has to translate Jeeves's erudite language for others, which occurs in "The Artistic Career of Corky": "The scheme I would suggest cannot fail of success, but it has what may seem to you a drawback, sir, in that it requires a certain financial outlay.

It was only some time later, when I was going into the strange affair which is related under the title of "The Artistic Career of Corky", that the man's qualities dawned upon me.

[6]Under the title "Leave it to Jeeves", the story was illustrated by Tony Sarg in the Saturday Evening Post, and by Alfred Leete in The Strand Magazine.

It was slightly rewritten when included in Carry On, Jeeves (1925) and retitled "The Artistic Career of Corky".