Cartoons I don't Get #35

In many cases here, it's not a question of “What's going on?” but “Why?”

Sex to Sexty c. 1970s

Is this a game of boxing where the rules are that the crew are also the opponents and the fight still goes on on between rounds? Hello Buddies, 1950s

Cavalade, August 1942

Playboy, February 1960

Is that a frowning mouth or her ear?
For Laughing Out Loud, March 1960

Judge October 9, 1909

Cartoonists would have the woman's manner of dress vary depending on which publication they sold it to, or would redraw it, which looks like the case here. I still can't tell exactly what “Big Ed” did and if that smudge is her lipstick or just a smudge in the printing.
Knight, September 1966

Playboy, December 1967

Life January 5, 1905

As notorious as The New Yorker is for their fact-checking, they didn't seem to notice the driver's sides were on opposite sides. Or is that the joke?
New Yorker August 25. 1925

Punch, April 1984

Punch September 26, 1915

Punch December 22, 1915

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

Click's Cartoon Annual 1940

I thought I'd have the seventh volume of Great Cartoons of the World by now (which I found for only 36 cents) to print excerpts from like I've been doing every Saturday, but the Christmas rush seems to be delaying much of the mail. Here instead are the first few pages from 1940's Click annual, a magazine I've posted excerpts from before.

The cover is by Peter Arno. They had a lot of cartoonists known for work in higher-profile magazines but with less craft. I think it's probably because they were paid less.

Ed Wheelan

Barbara Shermund

Ted Key

I believe this was one of the Roth Brothers.

Reamer Keller

Dorothy McKay

more pages from Esquire

From the March 1962 ESQUIRE

From the December 1961 ESQUIRE

from the October 1969 ESQUIRE

From "I Can Afford to be Sick",April 1970 ESQUIRE illustrated by Lou Myers

From "A Little Treasury of Non-Negotiable Verse", May 1970 ESQUIRE, illustrated by John E. Johnson



From "John Rennon's Excrusive Gloupie" (hey, don't blame the messenger), December 1970 ESQUIRE, illustration by David Levine


From ESQUIRE, January 1970

From ESQUIRE, October 1957