Chicago Spanking Review Special Series

The Humorama Spanking Cartoons!

#222 - Wasted Scotch Spanking

Art by Bill Ward. From the November 1962 issue of Comedy. Posted by the Web-Ed on 10/30/2020 (click to increase in size).

This one was first posted by HugoB00m on the forum back in 2017 (see A "Lost" Ward Cartoon?). Because it isn't new to CSR readers, we decided to post it now rather than later as part of the ongoing Humorama Series. That way, we can save a few surprises for the future, including two more cartoons by Ward.

It's a very good example of Ward's spanking cartoons and in style it could easily have come from 1957. In fact it appeared in 1962, which as we pointed out on the forum raises a number of interesing questions, the first one being whether the 1962 appearance was a reprint. We think not, for at this point there are only three digests left from 1955-60 that we haven't seen, all from late in that era, making it unlikely this cartoon would have been reprinted so soon (6 or 7 years was more typical). The second question is whether there are any more Ward non-reprint "spankers" from 1960's Humorama digests, and the jury's still out on that one.

Here's what B00m had to to say about it:

"The lady's bottom is fully covered, but the way her dress drapes, it appears to be made of some thin slinky fabric that would allow her to feel the impact of the spanking. (And allow him to feel the firm curves of her buttocks!) The gag of using expensive alcohol that was intended for drinking as a substitute for antifreeze was used by other cartoonists. I wonder if anyone ever did that? I like this picture. It must've been one of Ward's earlier works. The woman's breasts are big, but not grotesquely so... and her backside definitely looks spankable!"

We don't know if any wives actually used expensive (grain) alcohol as anti-freeze (a spankable offense to be sure), but according to my grandfather, back in the 1930s inexpensive wood alcohol was used that way. The only problem is that it would sometimes ignite, and cars could be seen going down the road with blue flames coming out of their radiators!