Still at the beach

While it's still warm (it's actually still summer for a couple more days) here are some more beach cartoons

Don Addis
Playboy, February 1972

Male, Jume 1971

Fun House, February 1980

Frank Beaven
Hello Buddies, Summer 1954

Hello Buddies, Summer 1954

George Wolfe
For Laughing Out Loud, March 1960

Esquire, January 1934

Gregory D'Alessio
Army/Navy Fun Parade, April 1953

Good Humor, October 1964

Nugget, February 1956

Eldon Dedini
Playboy, July 1972

Mischa Richter
Playboy, July 1972

More Playboy 1965

Jules Feiffer
June 1965

Mischa Richter July 1965

August 1965

Gahan Wilson
September 1965

September 1965

They often did a parody of a famous art piece in each issue. This is the one they had in October 1965.

cartoons I don't get #27

I only get it when I have something to say, otherwise I don't.

I have a set of discs of the complete New Yorker cartoons. Only problem is that in order to fit all the cartoons on two discs, you can't have the highest resolution or size, so you can't see all the detail. Charles Addams was one of the greatest gag cartoonists of all time and there's obviously some kind of gag here, but I have no idea what it is.
New Yorker December 15, 1956

Robert Day
New Yorker December 15, 1962

Perry Barlow
New Yorker December 16, 1961

I've got a lot of cartoons where the punchline is that somebody turns out to be gay. Not necessarily homophobia per se when the idea of two men being a couple wasn't an occurrence in everyone's frame of reference, more of an absurdity than anything else. I don't know if that's what's being intimated or if maybe I'm reading too much into it. Maybe I'm the bigoted one and what the boss had been holding in all this time was that the file cabinet in the lower right is transparent.
Mischa Richter
New Yorker December 17, 1960

Claude Smith Playboy, December 1967

Playboy, December 1967

Robert Kraus
New Yorker December 18, 1954

Charles Elmer Martin
New Yorker, December 19, 1959

Eldon Dedini
New Yorker December 23, 1961

Perry Barlow New Yorker December 24, 1955

Barlow
New Yorker December 26, 1954

I guess after seeing a bunch of cartoons I can't make heads or tails of, when I see an obvious joke I just don't get it out of habit, and that's why it's here. But just because the joke about a toy turning out to be real is so painfully obvious doesn't excuse the head-scratchers here.
Otto Soglow
New Yorker December 27, 1952

Playboy, January 1968

Older Comic Art in America

Here are more cartoons from Comic Art in America by Stephen Becker. It's a book about the history up to that point (1959). I've been posting excerpts every Thursday, the previous installment is ""here where there's a hyperlink to the one before it which has the one before that and so on and so on an so forth.

The chapter before this, called Added Attractions just featured stills and model sheets from animated films so I won't bother with that. This is the next chapter, A Century of Magazines: From Corny Almanacks to The New Yorker. As the captions on the cartoons say:

”Dicky Colwell”, a drawing by JAMES ARKIN in 1808, when it was still practicable to quote Othello.

ALEXANDER ANDERSON's most famous cartoon, “Ograbme”, a sharp comment on the Embargo of 1813.

“Johnny Bull and the Alexandrians” by the great WILLIAM CHARLES, drawn in 1818.

An old CHIP BELLEW gag, which is practically a strip. BELLEW loved to draw dogs.

One of C. J. TAYLOR's he-she cartoons, done about 1907. From Judge

A fine HY MAYER from Puck, in about 1910.

A page is cut out here for some reason. I didn't print an ethnic stereotype cartoon they featured earlier so whatever was here must have been so much worse, If anyone else has this book and wants to send me copies or scans of pages 121-122 (and they're not so offensive), I'll post them.

Continuing with the captions:

There's no caption here. The cartoon is by T. S. Sullivant. Don't know the source or the year.

*Ahem* Continuing with the captions:

The primitive pun, by A.S. DAGGY, who was a popular cartoonist of the turn of the century. From Judge.

The Great ZIM (EUGENE ZIMMERMAN) drew this in 1908. After the first world war the Irishman ceased to be a victim of cartoonists, possibly because he was better assimilated. From Judge.

The next two cartoons are by JAMES THURBER in 1937, this and the rest (except for one) are from The New Yorker.

Helen Hokinson, 1926

PERRY BARLOW (mislabeled as Percy), 1954

MARY PETTY, 1940

RICHARD DECKER, 1958

OTTO SOGLOW, 1947

CARL ROSE, 1953

MISCHA RICHTER, from newspaper strip Strictly Richter