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Playboy: 50 Years: The Cartoons

by Hugh M. Hefner (Editor)

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For 50 years, Playboy magazine has showcased the world's best and brightest cartoonists. Their spectacular stable of artists includes luminaries such as Buck Brown, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Jules Feiffer, Shel Silverstein, Doug Sneyd, Gahan Wilson, and hundreds of others. Hip subversives and sly revolutionaries all, Playboy's artists have continually proffered a sophisticated brand of humor sorely missing in other mens magazines. Now, Playboy celebrates its golden anniversary with this glorious collection of the finest and funniest cartoons. Handpicked by Hugh M. Hefner himself, the pages are filled with the distillation of the entire cartoon archive, offering insightful commentary on topics from the sexual revolution to relationships, money, and politics. More than 450 cartoons feature sweet young things, terrible tarts, winsome wives, suitors, and studs -- a riotous chronicle of five decades of Playboy cartoons.… (more)
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By far the majority of the cartoons in this collection (supposedly selected by the wizened libertine Hefner himself) are about sex, and they mostly seem to be the same old leering haw-haw gags. What Hefner describes as “humor of a more sophisticated nature” mostly just means topless.

Humor ages even faster and more embarrassingly than we do, and too many of these gags rely on what must have been the heady novelty of seeing things like nudists, lesbians, or transsexuals joked about in print: “That’s my son, Donald, before he decided to become my daughter, Denise.” Shock value, which often provokes nervous laughter in itself, has been pretty well leached out of these subjects now that 12-year-olds have high-speed access to fantasies more depraved than Caligula’s.
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For 50 years, Playboy magazine has showcased the world's best and brightest cartoonists. Their spectacular stable of artists includes luminaries such as Buck Brown, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Jules Feiffer, Shel Silverstein, Doug Sneyd, Gahan Wilson, and hundreds of others. Hip subversives and sly revolutionaries all, Playboy's artists have continually proffered a sophisticated brand of humor sorely missing in other mens magazines. Now, Playboy celebrates its golden anniversary with this glorious collection of the finest and funniest cartoons. Handpicked by Hugh M. Hefner himself, the pages are filled with the distillation of the entire cartoon archive, offering insightful commentary on topics from the sexual revolution to relationships, money, and politics. More than 450 cartoons feature sweet young things, terrible tarts, winsome wives, suitors, and studs -- a riotous chronicle of five decades of Playboy cartoons.

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