cartoons I don't get #34

While I do get the joke intended in most, they just leave me saying “So?”

Punch February 4, 1920
The accused doesn't care about the trial or would rather not be arrested at all. So?

George Crenshaw
Charley Jones' Laugh Book, June 1954 The guy's trying to kill his wife. So?

Esquire, January, 1934
The picnickers are shocked that the grounds they thought were vacant turn out to be a nudist camp. So?

Man, April 1966
Stereotypical Mexican peasant women carry jugs on their heads. So?

New Yorker December 19, 1925
People walked into a movie not sure if they'd seen it before. So?

Punch September 26, 1915
A patient won't eat. So?

Punch December 22, 1915
This is mocking some celebrity or public figure I'm totally unfamiliar with.

Hello Buddies, Winter 1950 A joke done many times. A woman wins the race because her breasts are bigger. The joke couldn't be that the all-male audience just likes to look at them. But the joke would work better if one of the women were completely flat-chested and the other were absurdly endowed, and if they were both wearing the same color top, so it doesn't work as an optical illusion making it look like both womens' chests are the same size. If that's even the joke at all. It doesn't help that it looks like there's a white smudge. Or that the judge's pants are entirely black so it looks like he's standing on the finish line.

Life February 16, 1905
A classical violinist would like to play but everyone is more interested in the current ragtime tune (you can't tell comparing it to today's standards, but at the time this depiction was wilder than anything you could possibly imagine). So?

Punch April, 1984
They're African-American and live in the U. K. So?

Stag, circa 1941
Something to do with Nazis encountering Napoleonic ghosts? Is that what's going on? So?

The Dude, March 1957
The town's flooded, but one of the houses hit is a house of ill repute. So?

Playboy, September 1968 A play on words. So?

Gags: The Legend of Curly's Gold

You see, because I've been using the names of all kinds of sequels.

Bachelor, March 1963

Cad, May 1969

I know most middle aged men at the time fantasized and/or cheated on their wives or behaved piggishly in some way but did a lot go to prostitutes or was it just wish fulfillment?

Jem, January 1962

Jem, March 1959

Bernard Wiseman
Jem, October 1965

Lo Linkert
Knight, September 1966

Laff, July 1952

Sir Knight, June 1958

Sir!, February 1954

Hi-Life, July 1963

Hi-Life, March 1958

Slim Johnson
Male, June 1971

Man, April 1966

Man to Man, November 1965

More Mad-Men era humor features

I have magazines with yet even more features that would probably go in humor magazines like Cracked and Sick if they weren't too risqué for the time, or they wouldn't be more appropriate (there was a lot of crossover with the same publishers). Many were gag features I could cut up and feature as just gag cartoons but for now I have enough for the next couple years.

Bachelor, March 1963. Mort Gerberg

Jem, January 1963.

Mr., August 1965. Charles Dennis

Spree, April 1959. Also Dennis

The Dude, May 1959. Funny how they mention cartoonists the reader's demographic wouldn't know or care about.

Man's Life, August 1970. Bill Ward

April 1959 True Men, April 1959. Frank Beaven

Why is it not so surprising a lot of these titles have the word “Men” in their title?

Sir Knight, circa 1958

Laugh Parade, 6 of 6

This is the sixth part of the gag cartoons from the second issue of Laugh Parade. I've been posting them every Thursday and they can be found through the archives on the right, and the text accompanying those posts tell the possible origin of the magazine and those cartoons.

Jean Bosc did these first two.

David Pascal

This was the back cover. There were no ads.