more unwoke cartoons

I post cartoons that might have been acceptable thirty or more years ago (by white males anyway) but here are some more, plus some that might have been wrong even then.

I hate that word “woke” though. Just that it's replaced “politically correct” now that's been taken away from us. What's better? Enlightened? Evolved? Anyway, here's a baker's dozen of cartoons they wouldn't print today.

Cavalcade, c. 1940s

Cavalcade, February 1942

Cavalcade, March 1943

Martin Filchock
Gaze, August 1959

Mike Williams
Punch June 6, 1973

Rake, January 1962

Saturday Evening Post May 6, 1944

Fury, March 1962

Buck Brown
Playboy, April 1968

Stanley Rayon
Gee-Whiz, April 1967

Al Stine
Rogue, October 1964

Topper, August 1963

Great Cartoons of the World Series 9, part 7

I'm starting to wear out the binding from my copy of Great Cartoons of the World, Series 9 from 1975 so I hope you enjoy these cartoons.

This one is by Boris Drucker. Adolf Born for Dikobraz Whitney Darrow, Jr. Mischa Richter for The New Yorker Stanislav Holý Jerszy Flisak for Szpilki Barney Tobey George Booth, again for The New Yorker Mike Williams in Punch James Stevenson in New Yorker again Four-pager by John Glashan

GREAT CARTOONS OF THE WORLD series 9, part 3

This is more from the book Great Cartoons of the World, Series 9 from 1975.

Stanislav Holý Mike Williams for Punch Tony Munzlinger Barney Tobey Sven Aagaard Adolf Born Mischa Richter for The New Yorker Boris Drucker Jerszy Flisak for Szpilki Jules Stauber Alex Graham for Punch Mike Williams for Punch These two pages are by Terrence “Larry” Parkes Continuing with the introduction:

”The cartoonist is required to make fresh comments on life in a climate that doesn't encourage individuality. Jackie Mason was banished. Mort Sahl was banished. Jerry Lewis was quashed. Don Rickles has to say he doesn't mean it. Television was responsible for a kind of uniformity of life which results in a kind of humor which begins, “Did you see Reasoner the other night?”

“In spite of this it is still possible to learn the craft. Burlesque, vaudeville, and most cartoon markets are gone, but if one turns on the television set too soon, and gets Merv Griffin while waiting to watch Cannon, one sees unheard-of comics, or a new cartoonist appearing in the pages of The New Yorker.

“The cartoonist who has the ability to keep his finger on the pulse of life is in no trouble, but he must make subtle and continual changes in his work. If he is not influenced by sculpture and film he is done for, like the woman who was well-dressed in 1950 and insists on wearing the same fashion in 1975, or the actor that is still thrashing around in TV, projecting the same thing he did on the stage two decades ago.

“Dorothy Parker said that a cartoonist needs a disciplined eye and a wild mind. I can vouch for the latter. Three cartoonists of my acquaintance, all of whom live in Connecticut, had taken the same train home after showing their sketches to The New Yorker. At the first stop a man across the aisle got up and left the train. When the train had started again, they noticed he left a package in the baggage rack. They opened the package and saw that it contained a cake. They agreed that the cake would be stale before they could locate the owner and decided to eat it. They had broken the cake into sections and were eating it when the man came back. He had been to the washroom.

“Freud Would Have been pleased at the amount of psychic energy released.”