From the Dick Buchanan Files: Gag Cartoon Clichés 1949 - 1965 Part 3

And the clichés continue. This is the third installment of classic gag cartoon clichés, all collected and annotated by my hard-working cartoon loving friend Dick Buchanan. It's fair to say that the pretty much all of these cartoons have not seen the light of day since their initial publication. And there are some doozies here.

Thank you, Dick, and take it away:

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GAG CARTOON CLICHÉS
1949 – 1965

Here some more gag cartoon clichés from the 1940’s and 1950’s that give us a glimpse of everyday life of Americans as portrayed by the great and near great cartoonists during the era of the great magazines of the day.

Some of these clichés have appeared on many lists of cartoon clichés while others are ones I found to be prevalent during the course of my usual haphazard research. Keep in mind yours truly actually lived during those “good old days” and it wasn’t always pretty. But it was often pretty funny, at least on the surface.


ORDERING IN A RESTAURANT

1. GUSTAV LUNDBERG. Collier’s December 9, 1950.

2. CLYDE LAMB. The Saturday Evening Post April 18, 1953.

3. WILLIAM O’BRIEN. American Legion Magazine June, 1954.

ASKING THE BOSS FOR A RAISE.


1. LEW FOLLETTE. American Legion Magazine December, 1953.

2. HERB WILLIAMS. American Magazine March, 1949.

3. GEORGE la MENDOLA (George Dole). Liberty Magazine April 1949.

COMPLAINT DEPARTMENT.


1. JOSEPH G. FARRIS. Collier’s August 20, 1954.

2. TOM HUDSON. For laughing Out Loud October-December, 1957.

3. AL KAUFMAN. Look Magazine March 28, 1961.

ALIENS ON VISIT EARTH.


1. BOB BARNES. BALLYHOO Fall, 1953.

2. MORT TEMES. True Magazine August, 1955.

3. VAHAN SHIRVANIAN. 1000 Jokes Magazine December-February, 1965.

ALIENS ON THEIR HOME PLANET.


1. JOHN BAILEY. Ballyhoo Fall, 1953.

2. J. B (BUD) HANDELSMAN. Look Magazine February 12, 1963.

3. JOHN NORMENT. BALLYHOO Fall, 1953.