I want one-panel gag cartoons for Christmas

Dorothy McKay
Esquire, January 1934

Esquire, January 1934

Charles Rodrigues
Hi-Life, August 1964

Chon Day
The New Yorker December 12, 1964

Charles Addams
The New Yorker December 15, 1962

Robert Day
The New Yorker December 19, 1964

Alan Dunn
The New Yorker December 19, 1964

Eldon Dedini
Playboy, January 1967

Phil Hahn and Paul Coker, Jr.
Playboy, December 1964

Douglas Sneyd
Playboy, December 1967

Punch December 22, 1915

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

Cartoons I don't get #26

New Yorker December 13, 1952
Bernard Wiseman

New Yorker December 14, 1957
Frank Modell

Playboy, December 1962
John Dempsey
I know it's about his penis. But since it's at a nudist colony I'd think everyone would recognize his penis, not just those two women. The real question, though. is why some people wear flip-flops and some don't.

Playboy, December 1965
Eldon Dedini
The punchline is that what he does is have sex, but I only know that because the cartoon is from Playboy. I'd have no idea what they were talking about otherwise.

New Yorker December 16, 1961
James Stevenson
This only makes sense in some states. There's been a gift counselor gag in almost every batch of cartoons I've posted, so it's been established that was once a mainstay at most stores, but in some states wine and liquors only at their own store is something completely unknown.

New Yorker December 4, 1954

Hello Buddies, Winter 1950

New Yorker December 5, 1953

New Yorker December 6, 1952
Robert Day

New Yorker December 6, 1958

New Yorker December 10, 1955
Claude Smith

New Yorker December 12, 1959
Saul Steinberg is one of those cartoonists you don't get because there's nothing you're supposed to get. Just cool drawings. I'll be devoting a couple posts exclusively to his cartoons after I'm done with this holiday stuff.

New Yorker December 16, 1961

Comical-type art in America

These are more illustrations from Comic Art in America. These first few cartoons are from the chapter A Century of Magazines: From Corny Almanacks to The New Yorker and most here originally appeared in the New Yorker

Frank Modell, 1954

Robert Day, 1947

Alan Dunn, 1954

Whitney Darrow, Jr., 1958

There are captions for all the cartoons now. They say:

The unforgettable Bobby Clark, made even more unforgettable in this caricature by AL HIRSCHFELD This was before he did the “NINA”s he's known for.

One of DON FLOWERS' curvy creations in a moment of fierce intellectual effort. Flowers' general title for this is Modest Maidens. (1949)

A Miss Jones by GREG D' ALESSIO, a versatile cartoonist who here specializes in the thought processes of stenographers.

The irrepressible REAMER KELLER this is from one of his Sunday pages. (1959)

VIRGIL PARTCH ignoring time and space again.

AL ROSS plumbs the mysteries of creation. (Look)

A sample of ED REED's Off the Record. (1955)

Frank O'Neal's FRANK O'NEAL's Short Ribs. O'Neal was a top-ranking panel cartoonist before he created this strip, which is one of the best of the simple, stylized, daily-gag strips.

Life's Like That, a FRED NEHER panel of 1959.

GEORGE CLARKE's panel The Neighbors. Only barely an exaggeration, and the basic problem is every parent's. (1948)

AL FAGALY and HARRY SHORTEN's There Oughta Be a Law. More happy cynicism.

A Side Glance by GAILBRAITH (WILLIAM GAILBRAITH CRAWFORD), who once directed his shafts at the moneyed and their mistresses, but in his newspaper pansl pokes fun at the happy middle classes.

DUDLEY FISHER's Right Around Home. Confusion, if not chaos, is Fisher's specialty. (1945)

They'll Do It Every Time, JIMMY HATLO's popular creation. The stuffed shirt punctured.