cartoons I don't get #41

Playboy, July 1963

Cavalcade, July 1942

Is there more to this?
For Laughing Out Loud, March 1960

I guess this is based on the “hung like a horse” cliché but I've never heard “hung like a centaur”
Sex to Sexty, mid 70s

He's not wearing a suit.
Hello Buddies, May 1955

I get that it's comparing the Wall Street bull to the golden calf, but are these supposed to be real people?
Life February 16, 1905

Helen Hokinson
New Yorker December 19, 1925

Playboy, March 1970

Howard Shoemaker
The Realist, June 1961

Frederick Opper
Puck June 16, 1880

The host of the British version of This Is Your Life, I guess.
Punch, April 1984

He's saying soldiers are fighting the Germans and it's taking away his movie business but how would they be able to see the battles without seeing them in newsreels, unless he's saying he's not getting enough business anymore because there are fewer civilians now. Which one is it?
Punch September 26, 1915

Punch February 4, 1920

New Yorker in Readers' Digest

The October 1941 issue of Reader's Digest had an article about the New Yorker cartoons.

Garrett Price

Peter Arno

Richard Decker, Richard Taylor

George Price, Peter Arno

(bottom)Barbara Shermund

Perry Barlow

(top) Helen Hokinson

(top)Carl Rose

(top) Alan Dunn

Chon Day

the last of CARTOON CAVALCADE 1941-1943

Syd Hoff, Collier's 1943


Carl Rose>, Collier's 1942


Helen Hokinson, Collier's 1942


These next two are from E. Simms Campbell, New York Journal-American 1942



These next three are by H. T. Webster, New York Herald Tribune 1942




Jefferson Machamer, Cartoon Humor 1942


Dave Breger, Saturday Evening Post1942


Virgil “VIP” Partch, PM, 1943

These next three by VIP were in Collier's in 1943.



See last week for more information about Larry Reynolds, who did this cartoon for Collier's in 1943.