Last week cartoonist Bucky Cee gave me a copy of the book
Love From France, a collection of gag cartoons from 1955.
“More than 110 cartoons from the droll pens of […] many illustrate the battle of the sexes (otherwise called love) as it is fought in the incomprehensible Gallic tradition. The collection is offered as hilarious proof that in France lovemanship is a national art.”
And, in keeping with the new name for this column, this book does not disappoint in the international language of “what?” Here are a few examples...
He's making her do all the work by itself and it's snowing. Is that what's supposed to be funny? This also was drawn assuming readers in France wouldn't know who
the Addams family is.
Some of these are more sexist than incomprehensible. Like the notion that the man always has to be the tall one...
Or that if a man and a woman know each other, she must be a hooker.
Who did these cartoons, Mike Pence?
Jacques Faizant
