Monday, September 26, 2016

Sixty Years Ago This Week

Monday Cartoon Day.

This is where I left off, I think.

A truely remarkable series that represents American cartooning in the fifties at it's safest (but still well drawn).

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Smurfswacker said...

Reading these harmless cartoons it's difficult not to notice the casual sexism underlying many of them. Today Americans romanticize the honest, hard-working, upwardly-mobile fifties. But read their magazines, watch their TV shows, and one is overwhelmed by the level of misogyny in both entertainment and advertising.

8:20 PM
Ger Apeldoorn said...

Yeah, but I sort of miss it. I don't think it actually is misogyny, I think it is venting. I am afraid there is more misogyny these days and less venting/more taboos. And I don't know if those two facts are related. I honestly don't, maybe the new generations have found a better way to deal with their negative feelings than sarcastic humor.

3:10 AM

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