The Kliban Bible and the Freak Brothers

B. Kliban
Playboy, December 1974

Gilbert Shelton and David Sheridan
January 1975

John Dempsey
February 1975

Mal Hancock
April 1975

Some comics anachronisms from Playboy

Right before the surgeon general's warning was required in cigarette ads.

Playboy, June 1971

At that time, they weren't allowed to show pubic hair in the magazine, except in cartoons I guess. Having it be the aesthetic standard makes it somewhat dated.

Alden Erikson
July 1971

August 1971

Not sure how you can play this game when it's made of light instead of paper but I suppose you can resize it to the right proportions before printing it out and gluing it to cardboard.

Gilbert Shelton September 1971

J. B. Handelsman

The International Comix Conspiracy

Playboy, December 1970

Although the underground movement changed the face of comics and begat alternative comics, part of it was another boys' club, and Playboy was there to cover the aspects of it that would be of interest to its readers.

January 1970

November 1970

And here was an ad from the December 1970 issue, artist unknown

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