Punch October 27, 1915
Playboy, January 1961
John Dempsey
I guess the joke here is that she's out of his league? Or that he has a boner? What?
Nugget, February 1956
Army/Navy Fun Parade, April 1953
Frank Beaven
Esquire, January 1934
This wouldn't be unusual now, with the iPhone meant to be brought into the bathroom.
Good Humor, circa 1964
Jim Lindensmith
I get some of these cartoons. I don't know if I have enough for a post called “cartoons that don't age well”. The idea of cooking being in a woman's DNA is so foreign to me but I guess it wasn't to people reading Hello Buddies in June 1952.
by Gregory D'Alessio, who apparently was so proud of this cartoon, he signed it twice.
Punch October 6, 1915
Same issue.
This is almost 20 years before the Hindenburg disaster, so I have no idea what they're referring to. Or who either.
Punch October 27, 1915
Playboy, July 1968
Buck Brown
Is this a man or a woman? Another one to file under “cartoons that don't age well”
Esquire, June 1934
Dorothy McKay
Hello Buddies, c. 1951
Woman gets promoted, and her 34-year-old sister immediately assumes she’s
‘inheriting’ the job despite having no training for it: ‘Yesterday she
updated her LinkedIn to say she's starting at my company. She has not
applied’
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I wish careers were inherited; it would make things so much easier
No training, no education, only good old heritage. I'm not even joking; it
would be easi...
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