A Very Playboy Christmas

Phil Interlandi, Gahan Wilson, Buck Brown, Eldon Dedini
Playboy, December 1969

Richard Taylor, Eldon Dedini, Alden Erikson

John Dempsey, Alden Erikson, E. Simms Campbell, Erich Sokol

Erich Sokol, Phil Interlandi, John Dempsey, Brian Savage

Claude Smith, Eldon Dedini, Douglas Sneyd, Alden Erikson

Dink Siegel, Don Madden, Phil Interlandi, Gahan Wilson

Every year they did Christmas cards, versed by Judith Wax, who I never saw anywhere else.
December 1966

December 1967

December 1968

December 1970

Tomi Ungerer
December 1970

cartoons that don't age well, part 1

I said I wouldn't go there, but I might as well get it over with.
I don't know whether to give a trigger warning or spoiler alert, so I guess readers will have to gamble.
These are cartoons that would never be printed today, so I will try to “save” some of them.

This is an organization of sports fans celebrating a member's birthday. Its membership is actually quite racially diverse (which you can't see) and it is only a coincidence that they happen to have hoods and robes, and burn crosses. Poor choice of wardrobe, I know.

John Dempsey
Playboy, November 1965

Charley Jones' Laugh Book, June 1954

Notice the spelling. They are not talking about American soldiers but the "calvary". I have no explanation for the native-wear that never really existed, though.

Bill Wenzel
Debonair, November 1968

Stereotypes aside, note the igloo in the background has a chimney. How would that work?
The Dude, November 1957

E. Simms Campbell was known for the theme of the harem, which is taboo for two reasons. Here there are two additional taboos. See if you can point them out. Now see if you're brave enough to say them over the internet.

Esquire, January 1934

They misspelled the Dutch village of Haarlem.

Gregory D'Alessio
Esquire, January 1934

Shaming aside, isn't the story supposed to be that Eve came from Adam's rib and not from somewhere else in the jungle? Or maybe this is just some other place and these are two different people?

Adam, July 1973

This borders between 'cartoons that don't age well' and 'cartoons I don't get'. If the “what else” is sex, I'm going to assume this is before the act, but if she's naked and in his bed, he's already there and wouldn't have to woo her or get her drunk.

If he's trying to slip her a mickey, that goes without saying he's an asshole, but again, if he has her in bed already he wouldn't need to. Maybe the joke is he's about to do something silly, but then you'd have to put the silly thing in there for the joke to work. Or maybe she's saying “what else” sarcastically, as in “that's all you've got?”

Adam, September 1963

Adam, September 1963

I think the people who did some of these would have voted for Trump. Not that it makes it better, that's just an observation.

Adam, October 1966

It's completely consensual.

Adam, July 1967

The planet they landed on takes more than 365 days to revolve around the sun, therefore four of their years is five of ours, making her 20. Still creepy, but legal.

Adam, May 1968

This takes place in a state where the voting age is in your thirties. Cad, May 1969

Cartoons of Playboy Past

Here's one of the very early Little Annie Fannys from before they started using assistants.

Their annual Christmas cards for the December 1963 issue. Obviously published before November 22, they had no idea what would happen then, and according to the Little Annie Fanny collection, excised all JFK material for their next issue at the last minute. As a bonus, the Kennedys are drawn by the great Jack Davis.

Also cards by Phil Interlandi, Gahan Wilson, Shel Silverstein, and Eldon Dedini.

From that same issue, the best of their cartoons from past issues up to that point. Also from the December 1963 issue.

On this page are John Dempsey, Erich Sokol, Phil Interlandi, and Bill Murphy

Phil Interlandi, Eldon Dedini, and E. Simms Campbell. I believe I posted the latter two before.

Charles Elmer Martin, John Dempsey, Dedini, and Claude Smith

Interlandi, Dempsey, Sid Harris, and Sokol

Interlandi, two by Murphy, and Dempsey. Everyone seems to be heterosexual at the nudist colony, but then again, this was before the protests at Stonewall changed everything.

Not sure who the upper left cartoonist is. The rest are Dempsey, Interlandi (again pre-Stonewall), and Gahan Wilson

cartoons I don't quite get 2

Often I don't get the cartoons I post and just pretend I do. Here are a bunch, a lot of which I can't figure out.

Esquire, June 1934
E. Simms Campbell

Good Humor, c.1964
Stu Schwartzberg

Playboy, January 1967

Punch October 6, 1915

Punch October 27, 1915

Real Men, August 1967

Fun House, February 1979

Hello Buddies, May 1955

Esquire, January 1934

Punch December 8, 1915

Swagger, January 1951

Playboy Poland, August 2012

Man, October 1972