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Brant Parker
September 28, 1957
Johnny Hart
September 14, 1957
O’Brien
September 8, 1956
Bill Yates
September 7, 1957
Geo Gately
July 6, 1957
Carl Thomas
June 8, 1957
Joseph Zeis
May 4, 1957
Joseph Zeis
April 27, 1957
Roy Wilson
November 17, 1956
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These cartoons are very funny Post editors. Fran, you need to lighten up! My favorite cartoons are also the ones that are the most degrading and embarrassing too, because they are the funniest. I’m sure that’s why Bob likes those best as well and made good points. The men look dreadful because they’re really banged up and in the hospital. That’s kind of the whole point here!
Mr. Knox, good points as well. Charles, you’ve got to be right about a lot of men having had accidents in the mid-’50s for them to be spoofed in cartoons. My guess is that these men tried to do things themselves they shouldn’t have, refused help, and had the accidents. I’m glad you found them funny too. Mike, that should help you see their timeless nature and that you didn’t have to ‘be there’. Keep up the good work, we need the laughs, and thank you.
There must have been something in 1956/1957, when all these cartoons were published, that made so many men completely bandaged up. A lot of accidents I guess. Anyway, despite the comments, I found them funny. They reminded me of the last scene in the 1963 film “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”. My favorite was the one about the bear.
People from different ages definitely look at the world through different perspectives.
I guess ‘being there’ makes a big difference.
Get real people! They are cartoons? Yes they are “extreme”situations, but nonetheless the humor is there. If you want to find fault, find it in the women that make the outrageous comments in regard to the patient.
Why would The Saturday Evening Post run cartoons of such dreadfully looking men in hospital beds like this? I think they’re disturbing and make me feel uncomfortable. I don’t know whose more to blame, the editors in the 50’s or now! Why does Bob always find the ones that are the most degrading or embarrassing to be the funniest, time after time, aiding and abetting your choices?
I’m always looking for the most degrading cartoon which is usually my favorite, but good grief Post editors; these are ALL degrading and brutal! I can’t do it! God: “Yes you can, now do so Robert!” ‘Well when you call me THAT…’
#4’s (painting the roof) has to be the worst. Look at her facial expression as she says it, and her husband’s–bandaged head to toe. Terrible. And #6—‘try not to think about it’. Then #7 (happy birthday) & #8 (dental appointment).
These wives I’m presuming must have felt their husbands got themselves into this predicament, thus no sympathy. Can you imagine the hospital/doctor’s bills?? I wonder if they got bills months later from doctors that ‘weren’t in the network’ but were there to flit in and out of the room with a Tylenol?!