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As 50 year old birthday gifts go, this was a fun one -- the pictures were nice, but I read it for the captions.Oh, and somebody hid a Shel Silverstein book -- Don't Bump the Glump! and Other Fantasies -- right in the middle. Kind of nice post modern take of hiding your children's book inside your Playboy.
Well, it's what I expected it to be, so I gave it three stars. But it's not a book I'd personally want to have on hand. Free from Hoopla was okay. What struck me the most is how our perception of what's acceptable has changed, and how unfunny something that used to be considered funny has become.
Brought back memories...mostly amusing.
I would have liked dates for the cartoons. I want to know when they were published. Other than that, it was great.
1.5
Playboy cartoons are fascinating mostly because they’re thoroughly unerotic. They’re all suffused with this childish sense of giggling at titties. They’re supposed to be sexy and funny, at LEAST, but if anything they’re weirdly cowardly, never showing vulvas and extremely rarely showing penises. There are definitely genuinely erotic or pornographic comics, and these are in comparison just tepid and embarrassing. They aren’t even funny!
So dated and with all that's going on, too many of these have an uncomfortable male dominance
i was just reading it for the cartoons lol
The best part of this collection is the essay that introduces it. Short, but talking about the impact of censorship on comics and cartoons--it's a fascinating history. It also leaves a lot unsaid, quickly giving way to a mishmash of contextless cartoons: New Yorker-style single images with captions, some strips, and the occasional multi-page storyline.While today Playboy is a bit of a quaint idea, for the pre-Internet world it was a ground-breaking skin publication. The emphasis on serving the m...
A fantastic collection of cartoons by some of the masters like Gahan Wilson and Shel Silverstein and long time contributors to Playboy like Eldon Dedini, Doug Sneyd and Erich Sokol. Some are a product of their times and mores others are truly timeless. A great chronicle of the humor and art that Playboy has promoted since the 1950s.
Kinda hard to review. The work of Gahan Wilson in particular is unqualified genius and really has nothing stylistically in common with anything else. Jack Cole and Shel Silverstein and probably other people I forget do some good work but then there's still like 50-60% of the book that's somewhere from amusingly dated to painfully dated to painfully somehow someone thought it was funny this century. Absent objective signifiers like technology and politics, I'd swear there was nothing published af...
Interesting from a documentary standpoint. The techniques have changed. The humor here might be unacceptable for 2019. And the quality of the jokes is quite mixed. Some are hilarious. Some are not.
