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Can someone explain this old one-panel comic to me? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been looking at it on and off all morning and I just don't get it.

It's a New Yorker cartoon from 1967. New Yorker cartoons generally aren't especially funny, but I usually understand the point of the joke.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don’t have an answer, but looked up the artist to add some context for discussion:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Steinberg

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ah, so he was really a modern artist and not a cartoonist! That explains everything, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

His take on mid-century Major League Baseball is sort of equal parts adorable and unsettling. Other highlights of the issue: A Houston family is paid $75 to test a fallout shelter for 3 days, canned raw meat, and Chef Boy-R-Dee as mildly exotic party fare.

See page 58 (archive file pagination) for the Saul Steinberg piece.