1. Our first two cartoons feature the trombone slide as the unlikely instrument of punishment - some of you may remember that Jack Cole did one along these lines which we've posted somewhere, probably on this forum, but we can't recall its exact location at the moment. The artist of #1? Bill Ward! This one appeared in the June, 1958 issue of Breezy.

This girl doesn't appear too bright, but she's learned not to stand too close to the bandstand in the future.

2. From an artist known only as "Hancock" comes a very similar gag, although this time the sore-bottomed victim of an "accidentally" applied trombone slide is herself a member of the orchestra!

We cannot help but note that the trombonist does not appear particularly contrite

3. We saw Lou Magila's second "spanker" over in the Humor Gallery on the main site last week. Here's Magila with a gag that revolves around the double-meaning of "sticking a pin in Georgia". This is a fully-drawn cartoon not typical of Magila, who more commonly created collages of drawings and old Humorama model photos. It does make more sense than most of his cartoons, but it's still rather odd that Johnny is either a kid or a very short man, and that he's wearing a tuxedo for some reason.

From the June, 1957 issue of Stare.
4. Pratfalls are never as good as spankings, but they offer a moment's amusement. Here's one from an issue of Whiz-Bang. The publication date is unknown, but this is not from the short time it was being published by Humorama. For the ice to have cracked that way it must have been a really hard pratfall


Artist unknown. Presumably from the Fawcett era, when this magazine was known as Captain Billy's Whiz-Bang.
5. What is it about very short men in offices that has such an appeal to cartoonists? Like Lou Magila, Stan Reid offers us a diminutive poindexter type whose solid work ethic gets him in Dutch with the boss, who's busy with working his secretary overtime



From the January, 1966 issue of Romp.
6. This last gag is straight out of Burlesque. Like the foot or swat to the behind, striking a match on someone's seat is a mark of complete and total disrespect - and we love it! Of course, the most refined form of violating a pretty girl's private space remains the spanking, but this will have to do for now.

From the September 1954 issue of Nifty, one of the Wolf Books. Nice bending-over position!
