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Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021

Good Morning: The US Humor Magazine May 1919 – October 2021

With its slogan now “To Laugh That We May Not Weep,” the magazine kept its “independent, whimsical leftist slant” ...
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Buy Prints The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909

The Horny Monkey And A Nose Pick: Humorous Japanese Postcards by Kokkei Shinbun Sha – 1907-1909

Satire, erotica and humor are the substance of postcards published in Japanese satire magazine Kokkei shinbun ...
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Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)

Zodiac Love: Plaster Sex Sculptures by Tom Otterness (1982–87)

The Zodiac sculptures were suggested to Otterness by an acquaintance who owned a botánica in the South Bronx ...
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When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!

When Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freaks And Poddy Ruled The World!

Looking at Shelton’s early street art hero, the grinning pot-bellied Poddy Passumquoddy ...
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MAD Magazine’s Spoof Anti-Tobacco Ads

MAD Magazine’s Spoof Anti-Tobacco Ads

Back when 'everyone' smoked, tobacco advertising was everywhere. MAD noticed... ...
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This Little Book Contains Every Reason Why Women Should Not Vote – 1917

This Little Book Contains Every Reason Why Women Should Not Vote – 1917

A humorous suffragist pamphlet in which all of the inside pages are blank ...
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Ridiculous Hair – 18th Century Skyscrapers

Ridiculous Hair – 18th Century Skyscrapers

In the 18th Century hair got taller... and taller... and taller... ...
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The Masochists – A 1960 Study In Extreme Pain

The Masochists – A 1960 Study In Extreme Pain

In 1960, the brilliant Roland Topor illustrated a world of self-inflicted torture ...
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101 Best Picture Comparisons From Lilliput or Chamberlain and the Beautiful Llama – satire from 1940

101 Best Picture Comparisons From Lilliput or Chamberlain and the Beautiful Llama – satire from 1940

In the 1930s a Prime Minister who looked like a llama was part of a new satirical magazine's passion for the power of telling stories through photographs ...
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Ukraine-born American Artist Boris Artzybasheff’s Anti-Nazi Illustrations

Ukraine-born American Artist Boris Artzybasheff’s Anti-Nazi Illustrations

Boris Artzybasheff (25 May 1899 – 16 July 1965) created many of these abstract anti-Axis illustrations for America's Wickwire Spencer Steel Company (1901 - 1963) in World War 2. ...
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The English Dance of Death: Thomas Rowlandson’s Scathing Memento Mori 1814-1816

The English Dance of Death: Thomas Rowlandson’s Scathing Memento Mori 1814-1816

I love dispatch I strike at once The wit, the wise, the fool, the dunce; ...
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The Kat of Kazan : How Russian Lubki Inspired the Commoners and Lampooned the Tsar

The Kat of Kazan : How Russian Lubki Inspired the Commoners and Lampooned the Tsar

A Lubok praised god, monstered the enemy and hailed Russian superiority ...
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