Cartoons I don't get #39

Cavalcade, February 1942

Donald Reilly
Playboy, July 1968

Playboy, December 1959

This time it was them that forgot the caption and not me.
For Laughing Out Loud, March 1960

Hello Buddies, June 1952

I might get this if I knew who this was. I think the joke is that a television personality is covering an ancient biblical event.
Punch, April 1984

Judge October 9, 1909

This caricature by Miguel Covarrubias is of someone. Damned if I know who, though.
New Yorker April 4, 1925

Bruce Cochran The Realist, June 1963

In the cartoon world, you'd think there were more topless restaurants than the one or two that existed in real life and they were places that married couples went.
Sir!, October 1967

These next two are from Sex to Sexty, circa 1970s

Bill Wenzel

Punch January 8, 1920

27 Jokes

This was supposed to have been up a couple days ago but I chose early July to come to my parents' house. The reason this has anything to do with anything is that a storm knocked out their internet and it won't be back for a week or so. I can only use it for an hour or so at this local restaurant that has wi-fi service, longer when the library's open, even then only during daytime. My parents seem to think the internet is just a toy I use like one would watch TV. It's also the way I get paid from some places. Their scanner is wireless so I can't use that either. Luckily I scanned these cartoons a while ago. Who says we're not living on the cutting edge of technology?

Anyway, this is none of your concern. Here is the next installment of cartoons from an issue of 1000 Jokes from sometime in the 50s or 60s. I posted the first few pages of 1000 Jokes last week.

John Dempsey, best known for the nudist colony cartoons in Playboy.

Harry Mace

Chon Day

Bob Schroeter

?, Stan Hunt, and Henry Boltinoff

Paul Peter Porges and two cartoonists I can't identify.

Two cartoons by John Ruge

Frank Owen and Dick Ericson

Eli Stein, John Norment, Bob Barnes, and Paul Peter Porges.

Leo Garel

Al Ross

Some guy and Jeff Keate

Great Cartoons of the World Series 7, part 10

Were in the home stretch with Great Cartoons of the World, Series 7. Here are the final thirteen cartoons.

There's no title in the book, but it looks like these three by Terrence “Larry” Parkes were from the same article in Punch.

Bruce Petty

Bill Tidy

Stan Hunt for The New Yorker

Robert Day in the New Yorker

Charles Elmer Martin

These next two were by Jules Stauber

Leslie Starke

Adolf Born for Dikobraz

Also Jules Stauber.

Great Cartoon of the World, Series 7, part 1

There were several volumes of this series, one every year, which I've been posting. This one is from 1973 and also edited by John Bailey.

Jean-Jacques Sempé

Michael Ffolkes

Jean-Jacques Sempé

Charles Elmer Martin, who did this The New Yorker cartoon, is written about in the introduction thusly: Charles Martin (C.E.M.) is an impressive figure who wears a light beard and looks like one of Robin Hood's men. He has a lively, inquiring mind, is constantly looking around to see what is going on, and has a vast appreciation of textures and moods. His drawings are surprising in their delicacy, at times approaching filigree work.

It says of Charles Saxon, another New Yorker cartoonist: Saxon does not look like his work—close-knit features, an open, alert expression, the solid muscularity of the athlete, and a cool, keen eye—but when he starts to talk about his work. He is emotional, even saturnine about life. His private sense of humor can rarely be detected in conversation, but it is sufficiently evident in his drawings. He has taken material of the twentieth century, has narrowed it down to a comfortable section that includes the upper middle drawer of the upper middle class, and has become a leading authority on it.

New Yorker's Stan Hunt is: ...an excellent example of the work matching the artist. He is hypersensitive with a special insight into the fears that haunt people—illness, failure, and that indefinable feeling that something will get you. All expressed in his cartoons right on the nose.

Boris Drucker is ...saturnine, gloomy, and philosophical, but his work is funny and gay. There is a genuine laugh connected with every cartoon he draws, and he is one of the best gagmen in the business. He looks like a Dosteofskian journalist leading a kind of Kafkaesque like, but somewhere in the depths of Drucker there is a lot of humor.

[Frank] Modell has what has been called “a ready wit”. His work is a true expression of his personality. He is rascally, cynical, and bubbling over with the fun of everything. Very little surprises him. There is not much naiveté in his work or in his nature. The subjects he covers are the subjects he is really interested in, and he does not force himself into any vein that goes against what he can observe easily in his life.

The editor in his intro doesn't mention the foreign cartoonists featured in the book, like Miroslav Barták...

...or Stanislav Holý.

Charles Addams

Forty years ago a plane crashing into a building didn't have the weight it does now, like in this cartoon by Pit Grove.