my fave
I have many favorite Kliban cartoons but near the top of the list is Fuck this primitive shit!
While we’re out searching for Kliban cartoons, has anyone run across a digital copy of the one from Playboy showing a flavor list on the wall of an ice cream parlor that says “Corn, Wood, Liver, Vanilla”, and the caption is the employee’s comment to the patron “We’re out of vanilla…”?
Yes, Mix, I saw that one in at least two places yesterday when I was looking for Beowulff’s $10k slice of pie. Try googling and if you can’t find it come back here and let me know and I’ll scout it out for you. It’ll be a present from me for your tenth anniversary on the SDMB.
In my search, I came across this collection of good ones (Map Filth: “Hey Europe, eat my Florida!”). And now the last one, “Bad Pun disturbing a Rhyme,” is bothering me. Any guesses on what it’s supposed to mean?
I don’t recall that caption on any Kliban cartoon.
Me, neither. It’s a bit too narrative for him. Maybe Gahan Wilson, instead?
Or Shel Silverstein?
Do you recall the G.W. cartoon about the lady of the manor and the delphinium bed? One of my favorites.
I’ve gone through my George Booth and my Gahan Wilson books as well as all my Klibans and I haven’t seen this cartoon yet. I have spent a few awesome hours looking at some of the best damn cartoons ever created, tho, so it hasn’t been a total loss… 
As terentii noted, it was in Playboy (which is where I must have seen it). I wonder if it never made it into any collections.
I considered briefly that it may have been a Gary Larson cartoon, but no luck in searching that archive, either.
Thinking about the issues of Playboy I had before I started buying them regularly (1983–2007), the cartoon may have appeared in the April or August '79 issue (PoMs Missy Cleveland and Dorothy Stratten), but this is merely a guess based on my impression of them.
Two other possibilities: May 1977 (Shiela Mullen) and December 1981 (Patricia Farinelli), but these are less likely.
One other possibility: November 1977 (Rita Lee). I didn’t own many copies before 1983, but I definitely remember having this one and those above. The time frame is about right, too.
This is so weird! I can see the cartoon clearly in my mind’s eye: It was a b&w line drawing in the lower left-hand corner of a left-hand page. For some reason, I associate it with the summer of '79, which was a busy time in my life. I was into Kliban at the time, too, which may be why the memory is so strong.
Anyway, the above issues do supply some kind of starting point. I’d look first in the August '79 issue. The alternative is to start slogging through every issue from January 1983 on. (Not an entirely unpleasant task :o, but I just don’t have the time!)
I think this cartoon may have been one of those in the limited-edition series 14 Klibans of gentlemen in a fancy pie diner.
Muchas gracias, guys! Going up on my cube wall 
Speaking of B. Kliban and King Kong…
Well, I am losing hope of ever finding it.
I was in a very cool bookstore today (Arcana, in Culver City), and happened to see the book "playboy 50 years the cartoons.” I looked up all the Kliban entries in the index, and it wasn’t in the book. I then leafed though the book, in the off chance that it was another artist, and didn’t see it anywhere.
sigh
Kliban also drew for the National Lampoon, and I’m pretty sure that was where this cartoon appeared.