A Very Playboy Christmas

Phil Interlandi, Gahan Wilson, Buck Brown, Eldon Dedini
Playboy, December 1969

Richard Taylor, Eldon Dedini, Alden Erikson

John Dempsey, Alden Erikson, E. Simms Campbell, Erich Sokol

Erich Sokol, Phil Interlandi, John Dempsey, Brian Savage

Claude Smith, Eldon Dedini, Douglas Sneyd, Alden Erikson

Dink Siegel, Don Madden, Phil Interlandi, Gahan Wilson

Every year they did Christmas cards, versed by Judith Wax, who I never saw anywhere else.
December 1966

December 1967

December 1968

December 1970

Tomi Ungerer
December 1970

Cartoon cliches: cheating spouses

Bill Ward
Wildcat, May 1968

High, November 1958

Charles Dennis
Jaguar, May 1970

Slim Johnson
Man, October 1971

Dink Siegel
Playboy, February 1968

Monsieur, October 1967

Arnold Roth
Playboy, December 1961

Richard Taylor
Playboy, May 1968

Playboy, May 1968

This Is It #22

Stag, July 1964

Stag, Fall 1941

Jack O' Brien
The Dude, February 1957

cartoons I don't get 13

“Don't get” doesn't always mean I don't always understand the joke. Sometimes I say “don't get” as in “What's the point?”

Esquire, July 1934
Syd Hoff

These next two were submitted by Devlin Thompson and come from the January 1978 issue of Popular Cartoons
I was confused by this one at first because I thought the guy's eyes were open. This would be funnier if “up in the air” had a double meaning and there was a hat or something in the background to show this guy was a pilot.

Reamer Keller

Louis Priscilla
Sir!, February 1954

The idea seems to be he's sawing the mallets so she'll have to bend down further, but her dress is too long to look up no matter how far down she bends, or maybe he intends to look down the front of her blouse?
Good Humor, circa 1964

Hello Buddies, Winter 1950

Charles Rodrigues
Hi-Life, August 1964
Is it that he has tools attached to his artificial arm?

Stag, Fall 1941
I guess the woman's talking but the older man is the one with his mouth open.

Man, April 1966
So she's talking to two guys at once. So what?

Ed Arno
Penthouse, October 1978

Richard Taylor
Playboy, December 1964

These two are from Punch October 27, 1915

Playboy, January 1967

Gahan Wilson

Illustrations by Bill Utterback

Eldon Dedini

Jules Feiffer

Richard Taylor
I posted a cartoon with almost the same gag last Thursday ten years earlier in one of their sleazier competitors.

Howard Shoemaker

John Dempsey

Buck Brown