Great Cartoons of the World series 9, part 4

Cartoons from the 1975 book Great Cartoons of the World, Series 9

This is by Norman Thelwell Stanislav Holý for Dikobraz Miroslav Barták William O'Brian for The New Yorker Whitney Darrow, Jr. forThe New Yorker Stanislav Holý again Pit Grove William Steig, who's spoken of much in the introduction. Saul Steinberg too even though he's not in this book:

”Thanks to the media, people are under the impression that they know everything these days, and cynicism is wide-spread. During the past twenty years humor has become psychiatrically oriented, based on what is going on inside oneself, and telling everyone what a mess one is. No longer can one translate the practical joke into a cartoon. That became old-fashioned when Steig did The Lonely Ones. His work and Steinberg's were the principal influences on the modern cartoon. Humor became more serious. Steig's work was not dependent on technique, and his technique changed as his ideas changed, and his exploitation of the relationship between men and women became more bitter.

“The same thing is true of Steinberg except that his interests are different. Steinberg explores a large hunk of life and then goes on to another hunk of life. He examines the western United States, carrying the subject far beyond caricature until it is drained, then turns his attention to warfare and death, from Don Quixote to the atom bomb.

“Steig's little man sitting in a box, and Steinberg's women knitting big long men with long legs, are all very Freudian, but transcend psychiatry. Psychiatry is merely there. Both know human nature, the bizarre, the foolish, and the weird, so well that one might say psychiatry agrees with their findings, as it does with Shakespeare's.

“Psychiatry is not enough. Because of the four-cent magazine approach to Freud, people Think they understand motivation. There is hardly a taxi driver who won't explain what made three generations of Rockefellers tick, and your dumbest friend will tell you that so-and-so has an Oedipus complex. Norman Thelwell for Punch Jerszy Flisak Terrence “Larry” Parkes Boris Drucker.

GREAT CARTOONS OF THE WORLD series 9, part 3

This is more from the book Great Cartoons of the World, Series 9 from 1975.

Stanislav Holý Mike Williams for Punch Tony Munzlinger Barney Tobey Sven Aagaard Adolf Born Mischa Richter for The New Yorker Boris Drucker Jerszy Flisak for Szpilki Jules Stauber Alex Graham for Punch Mike Williams for Punch These two pages are by Terrence “Larry” Parkes Continuing with the introduction:

”The cartoonist is required to make fresh comments on life in a climate that doesn't encourage individuality. Jackie Mason was banished. Mort Sahl was banished. Jerry Lewis was quashed. Don Rickles has to say he doesn't mean it. Television was responsible for a kind of uniformity of life which results in a kind of humor which begins, “Did you see Reasoner the other night?”

“In spite of this it is still possible to learn the craft. Burlesque, vaudeville, and most cartoon markets are gone, but if one turns on the television set too soon, and gets Merv Griffin while waiting to watch Cannon, one sees unheard-of comics, or a new cartoonist appearing in the pages of The New Yorker.

“The cartoonist who has the ability to keep his finger on the pulse of life is in no trouble, but he must make subtle and continual changes in his work. If he is not influenced by sculpture and film he is done for, like the woman who was well-dressed in 1950 and insists on wearing the same fashion in 1975, or the actor that is still thrashing around in TV, projecting the same thing he did on the stage two decades ago.

“Dorothy Parker said that a cartoonist needs a disciplined eye and a wild mind. I can vouch for the latter. Three cartoonists of my acquaintance, all of whom live in Connecticut, had taken the same train home after showing their sketches to The New Yorker. At the first stop a man across the aisle got up and left the train. When the train had started again, they noticed he left a package in the baggage rack. They opened the package and saw that it contained a cake. They agreed that the cake would be stale before they could locate the owner and decided to eat it. They had broken the cake into sections and were eating it when the man came back. He had been to the washroom.

“Freud Would Have been pleased at the amount of psychic energy released.”