Cartoons I don't get #42

The Realist, August 1967

The Realist, December 1964
Edward Koren

Playboy, February 1963
Don Addis

Sex to Sexty, mid 70s

Sex to Sexty, mid 70s

Cavalcade, circa mid-40s

Hello Buddies, June 1952

Judge October 9, 1909

Punch, April 1984

Punch December 15, 1915

Punch June 14, 1965

Sir!, October 1967
Reamer Keller

Punch, April 1984

Great Cartoons of the World Series 7, part 9

More from Great Cartoons of the World, Series 7. There are probably links to previous ones at the bottom of this post in the LinkWithin boxes.

The first three here were by John Glashan.

Michael Ffolkes

Miroslav Barták for Dikobraz

Jules Stauber doing a motif Virgil Partch was most famous for.

Mischa Richter for the New Yorker

Frank Modell also for The New Yorker.

Lee Lorenz for the New Yorker.

Edward Koren, now Vermont's cartoonist laureate for... see if you can guess.

Terrence “Larry” Parkes in a series of gags for Punch

Great Cartoons of the World VII, part 8

These are more excerpts from the seventh annual volume of Great Cartoons of the World from 1973.

The first cartoon by William Steig was in the New Yorker.

In the foreword, editor John Bailey describes what the contributors look like (previous examples can be seen in previous installments):

Steig is a true intellectual in the physical form of a dockworker. He is mainly surprising—he looks tough, but he is gentle and civilized. He never speaks without expressing his sense of humor, most often with some detectable ironic twist. Nothing about the artist's following of the artist being an avid follower of orgone therapy. On the other hand, there are and were several cartoonists that believed in all sorts of medical, religious, and political quackery but it usually doesn't spill into their work.

Vahan Shirvanian, also in the New Yorker.

Mischa Richter

Bruce Petty

Vladimir Renčin in Dikobraz

James Stevenson

Charles Elmer Martin

Edward Koren

Hans Moser

Whitney Darrow, Jr.

The final two were drawn by John Glashan.

Great Cartoons of the World VII, part 3

Now more as I continue to go through the 1972 book Great Cartoons of the World, Series 7...

But first, here's some of what editor John Bailey says in the foreword:

Whenever there was a new showing of Picasso's work, Saidenberg, who was Picasso's agent, was pestered by gallery-goers who wanted to know what Picasso was really like. There is a great curiosity about anything created. “Who did it?” people say. “What is he like?” Then: “What is he really like?”*

Everyone is aware that a trembly milquetoast of a tiny little man not infrequently produces frighteningly sadistic and overpowering work, and that a brute with low instincts sometimes creates a lovely, ethereal work of art. There are no rules, and often there is an apparent contradiction.

The title of these cartoons by based on the theme of books from John Glashan is a play on the novelty song ”La Plume De Ma Tante”.

And this is by Jean-Jacques Sempé

Hans Moser

William Steig for New Yorker

Edward Koren, also for The New Yorker. The editor writes of him in the foreword:

On seeing Koren's extraordinary animal drawings, one could be excused for imagining them to have been done by a very elderly gentleman with the palsy, sitting in a cold-water flat somewhere, surrounded by strange boxes of strange stuff, from hundreds of years ago. But one meets a stylish, contemporary figure.

*I'd also add to the FAQs: “Were you on drugs when you did that?”