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

Bride of gag cartoons

Chicks 'n' Chuckles c.1957

Adam Annual, 1960

Adam, September 1956

Adam, November 1959

Peter Wyma
Adam, December 1959

Adam, September 1963

Bachelor, March 1963

Perry Barlow
True, January 1953

Cad, May 1959

Glenn Bernhardt
Caper, May 1960

The Dude, January 1957

The Dude, May 1959

Hal Sherman
High, November 1958

New Yorker in Readers' Digest

The October 1941 issue of Reader's Digest had an article about the New Yorker cartoons.

Garrett Price

Peter Arno

Richard Decker, Richard Taylor

George Price, Peter Arno

(bottom)Barbara Shermund

Perry Barlow

(top) Helen Hokinson

(top)Carl Rose

(top) Alan Dunn

Chon Day

cartoons from an issue of TRUE

These are all the cartoons that were in a random issue of True sometime in the fifties.

I'm including the ads from this issue, too.

In addition to how there not only were there once more cartoonists and illustrations in advertising, sometimes they wouldn't have to feature the product at all, like in this ad for Nash Motors. Virgil Partch was probably their most famous cartoonist. In addition to their one-panel cartoons he did illustration for them. Years later when I worked at Nickelodeon magazine, they sometimes reprinted his cartoons but often had trouble dealing with his heirs, who didn't care about him. They even had him do some of the ads that were done in-house. Before Raleigh cigarettes were part of a larger conglomerate, they had all sorts of tobacco accessories. Robert Day I believe this is Perry Barlow Irwin Caplan Recurring feature by Hank Ketcham Chon Day