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A selection of wordless cartoons from GREAT CARTOONS OF THE WORLD Edited by John Bailey, copyright 1967 by Crown Publishers, New York, NY. This is the first book in what became a series of John Bailey-edited GREAT CARTOONS books.
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The above cartoon by Larry made me laugh out loud. There are levels of meaning here.
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The cool dude is Jean Paul Belmondo from "Breathless." The kid's expression is so great, that I get the context even though the fellow in the large thought balloon is not well known these days as he would have been in 1966. A bullseye by the French cartoonist Pierre Adebert.
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Zacek draws a sad desert island gag.
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Czech cartoonist Vladimir Rencin with what may be termed a political cartoon about war.
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The Saturday Evening Post mainstay cartoonist Henry Syverson's dynamic pen line is so animated.
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Gallagher's cartoons just blast forth with his animated line work.
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Vahan Shirvanian made me laugh out loud at the above 4-panel gag.
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A great gag cartoon can make you think. Charles Martin's cartoon gives me cold comfort about health care. Over 50 years later, the writing still resonates.
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Anatol Kovarsky plays on perception in this breezily drawn (no pun intended) 2-panel exercise.
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-- Edited from a blog entry of seven years ago today.
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