Great Cartoons of the World, Series Nine

I've skipped ahead mainly because I'm missing some numbers in the series, though here is the one from 1975. I don't have the dust jacket for this one.

The first cartoon is by Adolf Born Frank Modell for The New Yorker Charles Saxon for The New Yorker Adolf Born for Dikobraz Miroslav Barták for Dikobraz Michael Ffolkes Ton Smits Robert Day The next two are by Jerszy Filsak for Szpilki Jules Stauber

Update: Photobucket declared the cartoon below to be obscene. Two more from Michael Ffolkes in Punch Here's the first part of the introduction by editor John Bailey:

: The general public only has a hazy notion of the life of a cartoonist. Last week a man asked me how much a cartoonist gets for a cartoon. “Two or three dollars?” he hazarded. Yesterday, a cartoonist told me he is thinking about buying a castle, so it must be more than that.

A cartoonist takes some hard pains to remove the appearance of hard work from his drawing. The finished product has a look of ease. In fact, some of the most successful cartoons look so easy that the reader is under the impression he could do it himself. It is this that leads some readers to ask cartoonists what they do for a living.

When an audience is told too plainly that is going to be made to laugh, the reaction is apt to be “Is that so?” or “We'll see.” Everything must seem casual. The manner of a cartoonist's drawing can be compared to the delivery of a comedian, which is aimed at removing resistance to laughter

More from this book and this introduction next Saturday.