This one appeared in an issue of Playboy (December, probably). People standing around a fireplace which contains a skeleton in a Santa Claus suit. Caption: “We found what’s been blocking your chimney since last Xmas, Mrs. Smith.”
This was in an issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Two astronauts are in a rocket which has landed somewhere. They’re looking out their viewport and see short people in funny clothes dancing around the rocket and two legs in striped socks projecting from under the rocket. Caption: “Ding dong, the witch is dead!”
Many of the best Thurber cartoons feature dogs. One I have hanging on my office wall shows a park scene with a Walter Mitty-type walking his small terrier, who’s straining on his leash to get to a much larger hound being walked by a prototypical overbearing Thurber woman, who snaps at the man,
“Are you two looking for trouble, mister?”
There’s also the one of the man seated in his living room easy chair reading a book, while a fire-breathing dragon comes up behind him. The man is saying to his frantically barking dog,
“Shut up, Prince! What’s biting you?”
One last, seasonally apt Thurber - a woman and man walking in the country, the woman saying “I said the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces - but to hell with it.”
This just reminded me of one by Charles Addams. A psychiatrist is tied to a chair, and an eerie little man is peering at him and saying “Tell me, doctor…when did you first notice this paranoia of mine?”
XKCD is brilliant. My second-favorite cartoon series of all time.
Calvin & Hobbes just might be the best cartoon series ever written. Although I’m not sure if it resonates with girls as much as it does with guys (my mom and sister didn’t really get the appeal).
The Venus de Milo is complete, and is carrying a dustpan, broom, bucket and mop.
Caption is “It is believed that the Venus de Milo was vandalized by early feminists”.
