cartoon themes: christmas

Al Stine
Playboy, January 1954

Eldon Dedini
Playboy, January 1963

Alden Erikson
Playboy, December 1963

Whitney Darrow, Jr.
The New Yorker December 1, 1962

Ace, January 1973

William Steig
Esquire, January 1934

Charles Edward Martin
The New Yorker December 8, 1962

Frank Modell The New Yorker December 12, 1963

The New Yorker December 15, 1962

The New Yorker December 19, 1964

The New Yorker December 22, 1962

Howard Shoemaker
Playboy, December 1967

Claude Smith
Playboy, January 1968

Cartoons I don't get #26

New Yorker December 13, 1952
Bernard Wiseman

New Yorker December 14, 1957
Frank Modell

Playboy, December 1962
John Dempsey
I know it's about his penis. But since it's at a nudist colony I'd think everyone would recognize his penis, not just those two women. The real question, though. is why some people wear flip-flops and some don't.

Playboy, December 1965
Eldon Dedini
The punchline is that what he does is have sex, but I only know that because the cartoon is from Playboy. I'd have no idea what they were talking about otherwise.

New Yorker December 16, 1961
James Stevenson
This only makes sense in some states. There's been a gift counselor gag in almost every batch of cartoons I've posted, so it's been established that was once a mainstay at most stores, but in some states wine and liquors only at their own store is something completely unknown.

New Yorker December 4, 1954

Hello Buddies, Winter 1950

New Yorker December 5, 1953

New Yorker December 6, 1952
Robert Day

New Yorker December 6, 1958

New Yorker December 10, 1955
Claude Smith

New Yorker December 12, 1959
Saul Steinberg is one of those cartoonists you don't get because there's nothing you're supposed to get. Just cool drawings. I'll be devoting a couple posts exclusively to his cartoons after I'm done with this holiday stuff.

New Yorker December 16, 1961

Comical-type art in America

These are more illustrations from Comic Art in America. These first few cartoons are from the chapter A Century of Magazines: From Corny Almanacks to The New Yorker and most here originally appeared in the New Yorker

Frank Modell, 1954

Robert Day, 1947

Alan Dunn, 1954

Whitney Darrow, Jr., 1958

There are captions for all the cartoons now. They say:

The unforgettable Bobby Clark, made even more unforgettable in this caricature by AL HIRSCHFELD This was before he did the “NINA”s he's known for.

One of DON FLOWERS' curvy creations in a moment of fierce intellectual effort. Flowers' general title for this is Modest Maidens. (1949)

A Miss Jones by GREG D' ALESSIO, a versatile cartoonist who here specializes in the thought processes of stenographers.

The irrepressible REAMER KELLER this is from one of his Sunday pages. (1959)

VIRGIL PARTCH ignoring time and space again.

AL ROSS plumbs the mysteries of creation. (Look)

A sample of ED REED's Off the Record. (1955)

Frank O'Neal's FRANK O'NEAL's Short Ribs. O'Neal was a top-ranking panel cartoonist before he created this strip, which is one of the best of the simple, stylized, daily-gag strips.

Life's Like That, a FRED NEHER panel of 1959.

GEORGE CLARKE's panel The Neighbors. Only barely an exaggeration, and the basic problem is every parent's. (1948)

AL FAGALY and HARRY SHORTEN's There Oughta Be a Law. More happy cynicism.

A Side Glance by GAILBRAITH (WILLIAM GAILBRAITH CRAWFORD), who once directed his shafts at the moneyed and their mistresses, but in his newspaper pansl pokes fun at the happy middle classes.

DUDLEY FISHER's Right Around Home. Confusion, if not chaos, is Fisher's specialty. (1945)

They'll Do It Every Time, JIMMY HATLO's popular creation. The stuffed shirt punctured.

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