Cartoon Clichés of the South Seas
Mike Lynch has scanned and uploaded a number of old gag books in the past few months, but the desert-island theme of this collection really caught my eye (for what I assume are obvious reasons). Most of the humor is stale, un-P.C., and dated, but I still get a kick out of the fine line work on display.
[Link: SOUTH SEA CARTOONS compiled & edited by Harold Myers]
This might be an opportune moment to invite everyone to revisit my own tribute to lame, insensitive, tropical-island humor, the April, 1935 issue of Ballyhoo Magazine.
Comments
These are terrific! Especially the "cocktail shaker!!"
I'm enjoying your blog. Wonderful stuff.
Posted by: Kevin Kidney | April 30, 2008 3:01 AM
Thanks for the kind words, Kevin!
Posted by: MrBaliHai | April 30, 2008 6:46 AM
Hula Hula number sounds positionally (inserted by Firefox spelling correction) naughty! ;-)
(Written in a ICE with a lot of shaking, but no Hula)
Posted by: orangeguru | May 5, 2008 1:35 AM
It was pretty naughty stuff for 1935, nowadays, pretty tame.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | May 5, 2008 7:51 AM
Definitely not P.C., and even a bit racist and sexist to boot.
Posted by: staticbrain | May 5, 2008 11:14 PM