Chicago Spanking Review Special Series

The Humorama Spanking Cartoons!

#224 - Fireman's Carry Spanking

From the January 1957 issue of Snappy. Art by Bill Ward. Posted by the Web-Ed on 01/29/2021 (click to increase in size).

We have seen spankings done in the over-the-shoulder position before, mainly on stage (as for example in Kiss Me Kate), but it's pure staging convenience (and not very convenient at that) and of course nowhere near as practical as over-the-knee. Since there's no particular advantage of over-the-shoulder to the artist (it can't be any easier to draw than OTK), we're not sure what made Bill Ward think of using it here. Was he looking for alternative positions, having already done so many spankings in both the OTK and bending-over positions or did the idea of a fireman as the spanker start his imagination going? Whatever it was, we think Ward deserves a lot of credit on the score of pure imagination, and the use of the flat side of the fireman's axe as a paddle was clever also.

Note that we say "clever" and "imaginative," not "practical". It's possible to spank over-the-shoulder, sure, but there's no advantage to it if you're not directing a play in which the set offers no place for the spanker to sit down and take the spankee OTK. And the flat side of an axe makes an even more awkward spanking paddle than that of a sword. And the gag is pretty much incomprehensible. On the plus side, Ward drew a nice round bottom on the spankee, surrounded by "stinging effect" lines that make it clear she's feeling those rather awkward strokes. This is overall a very unique spanking cartoon, and the last one of Ward's that we have discovered (not the last one he did) from his long career at Humorama.