Playboy comics, 1967

Eldon Dedini
Playboy, April 1967

Virgil Partch
May 1967

Shel Silverstein
June 1967

March 1967

Charles Elmer Martin
July 1967

John Dempsey
August 1967

cartoons I don't get # 37

What am I missing here? Wouldn't it make more sense for him to keep sampling wines until he gets increasingly more drunk and the waiter is increasingly more frustrated? Seems to pay off too abruptly.
Claude Smith
Playboy, September 1959

Sex to Sexty, circa 70s

Life January 5, 1905

Rowland Wilson
Playboy, March 1970

Cavalcade, April 1942

They're all wearing leis and the guy has a reducing machine right next to his bed. Why?
Esquire, June 1934

Punch December 15, 1915

Punch, April 1984

Alden Erikson
Playboy, January 1968

The Realist, October 1965

Hello Buddies, May 1955

Gahan Wilson
For Laughing Out Loud, December 1964

Charles Elmer Martin
For Laughing Out Loud, December 1964

cartoons I don't get #27

I only get it when I have something to say, otherwise I don't.

I have a set of discs of the complete New Yorker cartoons. Only problem is that in order to fit all the cartoons on two discs, you can't have the highest resolution or size, so you can't see all the detail. Charles Addams was one of the greatest gag cartoonists of all time and there's obviously some kind of gag here, but I have no idea what it is.
New Yorker December 15, 1956

Robert Day
New Yorker December 15, 1962

Perry Barlow
New Yorker December 16, 1961

I've got a lot of cartoons where the punchline is that somebody turns out to be gay. Not necessarily homophobia per se when the idea of two men being a couple wasn't an occurrence in everyone's frame of reference, more of an absurdity than anything else. I don't know if that's what's being intimated or if maybe I'm reading too much into it. Maybe I'm the bigoted one and what the boss had been holding in all this time was that the file cabinet in the lower right is transparent.
Mischa Richter
New Yorker December 17, 1960

Claude Smith Playboy, December 1967

Playboy, December 1967

Robert Kraus
New Yorker December 18, 1954

Charles Elmer Martin
New Yorker, December 19, 1959

Eldon Dedini
New Yorker December 23, 1961

Perry Barlow New Yorker December 24, 1955

Barlow
New Yorker December 26, 1954

I guess after seeing a bunch of cartoons I can't make heads or tails of, when I see an obvious joke I just don't get it out of habit, and that's why it's here. But just because the joke about a toy turning out to be real is so painfully obvious doesn't excuse the head-scratchers here.
Otto Soglow
New Yorker December 27, 1952

Playboy, January 1968

Cartoons I don't get 24

This first one's not one to not get, but I included it because although it's sold as wish-fulfillment it's actually surprisingly progressive for the fifties.
Hello Buddies, May 1955

Monsieur, September 1965
The poor reproduction doesn't help.

I have disks of the complete New Yorker cartoons from 1925 to 2000. It's a good thing to have except in order to fit 75 years worth of cartoons onto two disks, they're not the highest resolution so you can't always tell what's going on. I don't even know where this is. A beach?
Rea Irvin
New Yorker August 15, 1925

Cavalcade, August 1942

Is this supposed to be a caricature of someone? I guess it's like if 100 years from now someone was trying to decipher a cartoon about Anthony Scarmucci. Who? Exactly.
Judge October 9, 1909

E, G. Lutz
Life February 16, 1905 Either they published a really small edition of the magazine or there were really big spiders then.

Charles E. Martin
Playboy, May 1968
I've mentioned before that views and humor about race have changed over time but here's a case where it looks like a stereotype has disappeared altogether. Is this what people supposedly wore in Hong Kong?

Playboy, December 1953

Punch September 26, 1915

Same issue of Punch

Punch December 8, 1915

Henry Boltinoff
Real, January 1953

Donald Reilly
Playboy, April 1968