Cartoon themes, cops part 1

Caper, May 1960

Fun House, February 1979

Bo Brown

Fun House, February 1980

Cavalcade, July 1941

Playboy, October 1955

Charley Jones' Laugh Book, July 1954

Jay Irving
Collier's June 25, 1939

Syd Hoff
Esquire, June 1934

Reamer Keller
Gaze, August 1959

Joe Buresch
Hello Buddies, May 1955

SurfToons #8, 1 of 3

I think I posted issues of this before. It was part of the Petersen Publications family that included CARtoons, Hot Rod Cartoons, CycleToons, and Drag Cartoons. They were an outfit that published car magazines and because they were based in Los Angeles (they have a museum out there), they only used cartoonists from there, back when it was necessary to live near where you freelanced. This issue is from November 1967.

This piece is drawn by Gilbert Shelton. Before becoming an underground comics legend, he did a lot of work for them, Wonder Warthog was a main feature in Drag Cartoons and they published a magazine collecting his strips for them.

Dennis Ellefson

Gags: The Legend of Curly's Gold

You see, because I've been using the names of all kinds of sequels.

Bachelor, March 1963

Cad, May 1969

I know most middle aged men at the time fantasized and/or cheated on their wives or behaved piggishly in some way but did a lot go to prostitutes or was it just wish fulfillment?

Jem, January 1962

Jem, March 1959

Bernard Wiseman
Jem, October 1965

Lo Linkert
Knight, September 1966

Laff, July 1952

Sir Knight, June 1958

Sir!, February 1954

Hi-Life, July 1963

Hi-Life, March 1958

Slim Johnson
Male, June 1971

Man, April 1966

Man to Man, November 1965

Broadway Laughs, part 2

More gag cartoons from the August 1974 issue of Broadway Laughs

Believe it or not, sometimes I feel guilty about posting as many T&A cartoons as I do.

With this batch, though, most of the the women in them seem to be enjoying sex and having control of their bodies, which most would agree is a good thing. None of the “you'll get this job if you're a good lay” theme or body-shaming or marital strife common to many of these cartoons. The beefcake challenge I proposed earlier is still in effect. I don't feel gratuitous nudity is wrong, just that there's a disproportionate amount and I'm not only trying to promote my own preference.