Saw pathetic case of Earth-being overcome by sudden drop in temperature ~~~ Entire body rigid and covered with congealed moisture ~~~ was evidently en-route for home ~~~ Eyes and node turned into vegetable matter
Mr. Skygack Observes a Snowman
Category: Comics & Cartoons
Pieces of art, meant to tickle the funny-bone, tells a story, or to make a political statement, whether it be in a newspaper or a comic book.
Mr. Skygack Observes Snow
An in a lonely stretch of earth ~~~ Bewildering load of crystalized moisture is falling from upper regions round about ~~~ Further progress extremely difficult ~~~ Uncomfortably cool ~~~ Will remain in present location until such time phenomenon shall have abated ~~~ Mayhap longer.
Will Rogers, 1932
Caricature of Will Rodgers in Washington DC, from 1932
Obeying the Censors!
Cartoon on how to avoid be censored by the Hays code
Popeye the Sailor Man
Trade magazine advertisement for Popeye the Sailor man shorts.
When to be Nonchalant…
…when you have been whispering over the phone to your new boyfriend and discover the rest of the office force listening in over an extension line.
The Herald-Press, St. Joseph, Michigan, April 23, 1930
An editorial…
… for Christmas 1933. Advertisement/political cartoon from Better Theaters, Dec 16th, 1933
Something Different, Something New!
Advertisement for Scrappy from Columbia Pictures, 1931
Poor Fido
MRS. UNDERWATER: Dear Fido’s digestion seems to be utterly ruined.
CHORUS OF YOUNG LADIES: How too dreadfully awful!
MRS. UNDERWATER: Just to think of his eating a mule for breakfast, and then lunching on a stray lord that dropped off a horrid yacht. Dr. Pod said “Nothing could have saved dear Fido’s life if he had swallowed a duke.”
(From Brooklyn Life, October 19, 1895)
Memorial Day Heartbreak
Thou’rt gone, the abyss of heaven hath swallowed up thy form, yet, on my heart deeply hath sunk the dark night of grief and shall not soon depart.