Great Cartoons of the World Series 6, part 9

The next to last of this particular book, series 6 of Great Cartoons of the World. Confused by the numbers? They don't mean anything. Just ignore them.

Vahan Shirvanian for The Saturday Evening Post

Terrence “Larry” Parkes for Punch

Robert Day

J. M. Bosc

Barney Tobey for The New Yorker

Vahan Shirvanian in Look

William O'Brian

Sure, this cartoon by Jean-Jacques Sempé for Denoël but keep deluding yourself into thinking it's okay, because it's French.

Vahan Shirvanian

Guillermo Mordillo

Ton Smits

Vahan Shirvanian

Alex Graham for Punch

Ton Smits

Great Cartoons of the World Series 6, part 5

Continued from last week, excerpts from the 1972 edition of Great Cartoons of the World, Series 6.

From the introduction written by editor John Bailey again:

It is rare of any artist to treat of timeless issues. Very little art of any kind has survived. The timely cartoonist, by contrast, must be ahead of his time and be able to predict a trend. When something new appears he must decide whether or not it is going to fizzle out before he can get his cartoon to market. He must think quickly and think ahead in order to avoid turning in dated work. He deals not only with what is generally current, but with what happened last week and what will happen this week.

It is a common experience to try to remember a funny cartoon, and not quite be able to remember it. Too many fine cartoons are thrown out with the fish. This book, then, is an attempt to put some of the best cartoons between hard covers, where they will be safe. I am perfectly sure that some of them will be valid twenty years hence. And—timelessness is tricky—I am pretty sure that at least a few will be valid a hundred years from now

Another handiwork cartoon from Punch by Terrence “Larry” Parkes

Norman Thelwell

Jules Stauber

J. M. Bosc

Ton Smits

Norman Thelwell again

Robert Day

The rest of this post is by John Glashan

Great Cartoons of the World Volume 4, part 3

More from the 1970 book Great Cartoons of the World, Volume IV continued from last week.

Terrence “Larry” Parkes for Punch Volker Ernsting William Steig in The New Yorker These two pages by Stanislav Holý John Glashan Stanislav Holý again, this time for Dikobraz Barney Tobey for The New Yorker Stanislav Holý J. M. Bosc did the cartoon written about in the book's introduction:

Steig's woman giving her husband a hot dog [in a future post] is not all different from Bosc's convict who, when he reaches home, finds himself in another prison. Hans-Georg Rauch Quentin Blake John Glashan

Great Cartoons of the World Volume IV, part 1

Got the second volume of this after the ninth one which is why I've been moving around in numerical order. So far the binding is such that I can scan something that goes across two pages but we'll see how that goes as I go further to the center of the book.

Here is the cover to this series, from 1970. The front flap explains the book as well as some specific cartoons, which we'll get to as they appear. Says editor John Bailey:

The cartoonist is not the same as the rest of us. His eye is diagnostic, like the doctor who can tell what the problem is as soon as the patient steps over the threshold.

You and I see around us the honeymoon couple, the man with too many children, the husband and wife who hate each other, the TV repairmen who exaggerate and overcharge, and the deliveries that come too late, to which we merely say, “Oh yes, that's the way it is with me.” The cartoonist penetrates more deeply, seeking the ludicrous, searching for cartoon ideas.

The cartoonist knows what we are up to. He sees through the surface and status of fancy manners, and through the illusion and fakery of the facade we build up, and observes what is really going on. For example, that the married couple, with their arms around each other, lighting each others' cigarettes, are really out to kill each other. When he shows us this truth, we laugh. Nothing is quite as funny as the truth.

J. M. Bosc Vladimir Renčin for Dikobraz Miroslav Barták for Dikobraz Frank Modell for The New Yorker Norman Thelwell in Punch Two pages by Jean-Jacques Sempé for Editions Denoël Ton Smits Chon Day for Saturday Evening Post John Glashan Jules Stauber Ed Arno for Look