The cartoons were originally printed in Dikobraz, The Morning Telegraph, Nebelspalter, The New Yorker, The New York Herald Tribune, Saturday Review, The Saturday Evening Post, Paris Match and Punch, as well as from Bärmeier & Nikel, Harper & Row and United Features Syndicate.
The editor says in his introduction:”The cartoonist shares with the dramatist the problems of character, at staging and lighting, and of showing the audience the world through his eyes. He is provided with quite a small stage—a rectangle on the page of a magazine—and he is given no second chance, as is the novelist, who, after a bad chapter, is able to recapture his audience in the next, or the dramatist, who can muddle along but save everything in the last act. The cartoonist must be right the first time. He must be brief, sometimes saying the same thing for which the novelist requires three hundred pages. His principal equipment is a lively mind that grasps essentials easily.”
The first cartoon is from Guillermo Mordillo
Jean-Jacques Sempé
J. M. Bosc
George Price, of whom the editor says:”The zany, insane characters of Price are practically immortal. The Rembrandt of the eccentric distorts these everyday, humdrum squares, and with an electric line sketches his characters in acid, and—set in 1910 attitudes and lost in roomfuls of all the electrical appliances known to man—they comment on the mechanized society that is driving them mad.”
James Stevenson
Jules Stauber, who the editor sites as “rearranging reality and making humdrum stuff seem new.”
Hans-Georg Rauch
Chon Day
Henry Syverson
Claude Smith
John Glashan
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