My all-time favourite to date, has to be one (by whom, I have no idea) – a good many years ago now – in the now-defunct British humorous magazine Punch. It derived from Edward Lear’s poem “The Owl and the Pussycat”-- in particular, the portion of same:
"… And there in a wood, a Piggy-Wig stood
With a ring in the end of his nose.
‘Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for a shilling
Your ring?’ Said the Piggy, ‘I will’ "…
(they use it as their wedding ring in the shortly-to-be-performed ceremony).
The cartoon shows the Owl and Pussycat negotiating with the Pig, for purchase of ring; caption has the Pig saying, “Don’t think I’m unwilling; but are you quite sure the world is ready for what you two are planning to do?”
I recently went through a 650 page collection of New Yorker cartoons covering the period 1925-2005 and I think my favorite among them is this one though I also smiled at this.
Another long-ago one which delighted me, which has just come back into mind for some reason. Not, I think, by anyone famous; it was a non-sex-related oddment in a girlie magazine.
The cartoon shows a bunch of eighteenth-century American soldiers. The sergeant is saying to the lieutenant, “I’m a bit worried about Doodle, sir. He keeps sticking a feather in his hat and calling it macaroni”.
It has taken me a couple of years but I finally found the deaf/blind one. The artist was Shoemaker. I think first name is Howard. Did quite a few for Playboy. Google Shoemaker cartoons in Playboy.
Glad to see Quino’s appreciated here. This one is a lot more than funny. Hope that link works. In the upper left-hand corner, it should show a guy walking around outside in a world where people have no clothes.
Glad to see this zombie thread – I got a lot of laughs from the posts.
One of my favorites was in Playboy almost 50 years ago. A couple is having sex on a table. In the foreground is a small boy, clearly a younger brother of one, who says: “Hey! We eat off that table!”
An old New Yorker cartoon I saved from one of those page-a-day calendars a few years ago. A guy is sitting in a hotel room, talking on the phone, with an impatient look on his face. “Yes yes, I love you too honey. Now put the dog on.”
(The reason I saved it is because there used to be a guy who sat next to me at work, who actually would ask his wife to put the dog on the phone!)
Two penguins speaking with each other, surrounded by millions of other penguins.
“You want to know what we need around here? I’ll tell you what we need around here. We some damn name tags around here.”
Here’s a cartoon from way back (even before 2016) from Mother Goose and Grimm. It must have been popular, because I can only find it on coffee mugs. You have to “cursor over” the image of the mug to see the whole panel.
