Humorama Spanking Cartoons

[daneldorado]

Hi... Here are two DSD toons we have probably all seen before, but I have never seen them in such good scans. Hope you enjoy.

If you DO enjoy them, let me know. Even if you DON'T enjoy them, please let me know that too.






Check out the badge number on that cop. Remind you of anyone?

Cheers,
Dan

[hugob00m]

These are great! Thank you for posting them! I have seen both of those cartoons before, but not such high-resolution scans. The ones you found show the original brushstrokes, and most important, the appealing roundness of the ladies' backsides the way DeCarlo drew them!

[web-ed]

[Note: moved this topic over here from "Comic-Book and Superhero Spanking"]

These are great, Dan - two from your namesake, Dan DeCarlo, who may have been the most consistently excellent of the Humorma "Big Five" spanking cartoonists (Ward, Wenzel, Stiles, DeCarlo, and Homer).

First, the Cop Spanks Speeder one is a much clearer scan than the xeroxed copy I had posted in the Humor Section years ago, to which this version will now be added. Always watching for the possibility of creating secondary gags in your own work, you have alerted us all to another in DeCarlo's as well: the cop's badge number, 714, will always be remembered by those of us past a certain age as belonging to Sgt. Joe Friday on the Dragnet radio and television shows. (Actually, I don't suppose the badge# could have been on radio - I'm not old enough to have heard the program on radio, although I know it was there). The first of the three T.V. versions came out in the early 50's, and DeCarlo must have had it in mind when he did this cartoon. Dragnet was so unique in its way that humorists have never been able to resist poking fun at it. (The famous phrase, "Just the facts, Ma'am" is attributed to Jack Webb playing Friday, but I don't know if he ever actually said it).

The Principal Spanks Teacher appeared in Humorama with a couple of different captions. I have both versions in the files, and they will be posted later this year as part of the Humorama series. I do have one excellent scan I made from Mike's collection, but it was torn from whatever digest it appeared in and is slightly less complete than this version. Anyway, you can't go wrong when a female teacher is on the receiving end of corporal punishment for a change!

Thanks for contributing these. It bears repeating (and I'm sure to repeat this over the next year) that having a good-quality scan makes a great deal of difference. The artist's intention (and skill) become much more apparent, and in some cases the drawings become more erotic as well.

[jimc]

yes, they are great original scans. I never paid any attention to the cops badge # until you brought it up. And yes Sgt. Friday was a memorable charactor of the times. I do think that i did watch the episode where he did say "just the facts,maam" and did remember that after Dragnet was Emergency (where his ex-wife Julie London and her current husband Bobby Troup were in it.) and Adam-12 and i wrote a fan fiction story about it. i think i was 12 or 13 at the time and this was this line in it that just seemed to make my heart race when i heard it and i carried out the scene to its logical conclusion even though it did not happen in the show. I alwys liked this particular model of Decarlo as it is Veronica from the Archie comics and i always thought Veronica was the most spankable of all the comic book stars. Although i did often think of almost all the comic strip women as being spankable (there were always some that i wanted more than others to be spanked and did trace them getting spanked in a composite way {a spanker from somewhere else spanking a posed other figure})and Veronica was one i used the most it seems. Have a great day.
Jim

[web-ed]

I'm creating this topic so I can merge the various Humorama-themed posts underneath it, with the object of beautifying the board a little.

I'll also take this opportunity to mention that although I have enough Humorama cartoons to run one each week through the remainder of 2011, I've still been researching further into these "spankers" as the editor called them. The most significant question is, how many more "spankers" are there that we don't yet know about? By straining my eyes examining all the available thumbnailed cover scans, I believe I've identified two cartoons that haven't been seen before. Unfortunately, I don't have any details, except the publication dates of the digests, which may not have been the first time the cartoons appeared. I can't even make out who the artists are, although in other two cases I recognized Bill Wenzel cartoons which either have already been posted on CSR or will be shortly. Needless to say, I will continue to hunt for these two cartoons and any others which may turn up.

[05/09/2011 Update: I was surprised when I recently found one of the two mentioned, because it was another F/M scene by Kirk Stiles! That makes two, and it's certainly enough for me. I will probably post it, but not as part of the current Humorama series which is purely X/F. I still haven't found the other cartoon. Also, I believe the first ever Humorama spanking cartoon is still out there, but I'm not sure - all I have is a description. So at this time, I believe there are still at least two cartoons waiting to be found, and there may of course be more, especially from Bill Ward. When the series is concluded, I'll tally up the posted cartoons along with any others I know about and see where we stand.]

[hugob00m]

Besides Dan Decarlo, a cartoonist I really like is Bill Wenzel. There is one of his cartoons that I used to have a really good copy of and now all I have is this...

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Even at this resolution, you can see how good he is at drawing women's curves and suggesting the drape of their clothing (when they're wearing any) with a few penstrokes and an ink wash. You can see that this lady's dress is made of some kind of slinky, semi-sheer, curve-hugging fabric, and that she isn't wearing anything under it. PLEASE! Does anyone have a copy of this that was scanned at a higher resolution?

[hugob00m]

Here is another Bill Wenzel cartoon that I enioy...

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I don't think Wenzel ever drew his spankees with their skirts raised, but this girl's dress, stretched so tightly across her backside that it could almost burst, makes her look incredibly erotic, even though she's fully-clothed!

[hugob00m]

I just ran across this one recently...

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The positioning is terrible! It looks like the woman is about to slide off the man's lap and fall on her face! However, the shading more than makes up for this cartoon's faults. Again, with just a few well-placed penstrokes and some masterful application of an ink-wash, he's made the dress look like it's made of some kind of shiny gossamer fabric with nothing but skin underneath.

[web-ed]

Ask and ye shall receive! As it happens, I recently came into possession of copies from the original Humorama digests of both these Wenzel cartoons (and 60 others!). I spent a whole day scanning them at high resolutions, so now it's only a question of when I can get them all posted.

As for the General spanking one, yes indeed, that dress was stretched nice and taut across her backside! Bare bottoms were rare in Humorama during the 50's and 60's (the recent Earl Engleman "Spanking Breeze" being one) so this is the best we could reasonably hope for. This one has only rarely been seen on the web, so thanks for posting it here. [Later note: the bare bottom in Engleman's "Spanking Breeze" was found to be a later, altered version of the original, which had tight-fitting shorts - Web-Ed.]

The other one has appeared with two captions: the one on this version, which I believe to have been the original, and a later version which reads "A well-rounded education begins from the bottom up!". I came upon your version earlier this year, confirming what I had long suspected about the existence of an earlier caption, while the new scan is of the version with the "education" caption (but it does have the complete art).

In the future, the new high-quality scan of the "education" version will be added to the page linked to above, while the "General" one will get a new page in the ongoing "Humorama" series. When? I've been thinking I should mix up the new scans of The Big Five (Ward, Wenzel, Stiles, DeCarlo, and Homer) with the lesser-known artists, which is what I've been featuring so far. I promise to make an effort to get the "education" one out there soon. [12/09/2011 Update: I added another scan, this one from the cartoon's first appearance, to the linked page above - Web-Ed.]

I have three other Wenzel cartoons that have never been seen before, so stay tuned!

[web-ed]

I've come into possession of a few more Humorama "spankers" - not of the same quality as Mike's collection, unfortunately, but still of interest. The new totals by artist are:

Ward - 18
Wenzel - 2
DeCarlo - 8
Homer - 5
Stiles - 19
Morrice - 6
Ficklen - 1
Misc - 7
Total - 66

And this doesn't include alternate versions of cartoons already posted!

I figure I'll have to post two per week to get through them all by the end of the year, so beginning May 20 that's what I'll do.

I also found four more F/M ones - three by Ward and one by Stiles whose existence I had suspected from my examination of various Humorama cover scans. I'm not going to pollute the Humorama series with these, but I may post them eventually.

[web-ed]

Here is the earliest Humorama "spanker" I have been able to document, dating from 1955 (there are a couple of Bill Ward's I've yet to post that are definitely from 1957 and 58). [And one I forgot about when I wrote this from 1956]. Humorama seems to go back to 1938, but there's precious little information about its early years. This is from a cover scan and is very hard to make out, but based on the signature, the position of the spanking arm, and the loose-fitting yet clingy dress fabric, I think it's Bill Wenzel, which would jibe with a claim I've seen that Wenzel did the first "spanker" in 1955. At the moment, this is the only "spanker" whose existence I can definitely prove but which is not available to me in any usable form.
[01/11/2012 Update: I later obtained a usable version of this cartoon and expect to add another shortly from the July 1955 issue of Comedy.]

Of course, there may be others, but I've gone over all the existing cover scans I can find. There was only one other I was looking for, and when I recently got a copy it turned out to be a Kirk Stiles F/M - rare, but not what we want here.

The first Humorama "spanker"?

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[jimc]

hi web-ed,I must have gotten a bad scan because i can not make it out at all. It must be great to have found all these great books. Thank you for continuing your search. have a great day.
Jim

[web-ed]

Jim,

The problem is that I extracted this from a small-sized scan of the cover. Since the spanking itself is only a small fraction of the cover, the resolution is terrible. And this is how I've searched for evidence of more Humorama spankings! All of the ones I found this way I could immediately recognize except this one and the Stiles F/M (which I found later). So there may not be any more. Alas, I found this one too late to pick up a cheap copy of the issue - mostly sellers want way too much money for these old Humorama digests, so I can't afford to collect them on the off chance I might find a spanking cartoon none of us has ever seen. I might be picking up an old issue of Joker soon, so let's keep our fingers crossed that it's got a "spanker" in it!

[web-ed]

I just discovered the existence of a Bill Wenzel "spanker" in which Pierre runs his reducing salon by (you guessed it) spanking the female patrons! Unfortunately I don't have a good scan of it, but I'll try to get one.

[06/20/2011 Update: Found the issue of Jest on the cover of which this one appeared. As an extra bonus, a larger version appears inside, along with another George Morrice spanker that I had never seen before!]

[hugob00m]

I ran across this cartoon that, although it doesn't show a spanking in progress, it looks like it could be the lead-up to one... especially after I re-captioned it.

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The man's hand twitching by his side, makes it look like he's thinking of the same thing one of us would be thinking of!

[overbarrel49]

hi boom,

hey, thanks for posting this. i too noticed the twitching hand and to go along with that the evil smile on his face looks like he's thinking spanking to me . good find. thanks, phil

[butch46163@yahoo.com]

Love the way Ward teases his readers.Every body knows that the curvy lady will be getting her birthday spanking real soon!!!

[butch46163@yahoo.com]

HI CSR I have seen you posting many spanking drawing from Bill Wenzel Dan Decarlo and Bill Ward but never anything from Don Flowers did he ever draw spanking comics ?? I was trying to buy the book call The GLamour Girls Of Don Flowers but could not find it anywhere. If anything I hope CSR could find drawings from this artist and post them on your website. THANKs CSR!!!!!

[hugob00m]

I don't think I've ever seen a spanking cartoon by Don Flowers. The closest I ever saw was one that mentioned spanking in the caption. The picture showed two women and one man sitting in a room together, and apparently the two women were a mother and her daughter. The caption was something like, "If I marry your mother, then I'll be your stepfather, and I'll get to spank you every night."

[web-ed]

b00m,

I loved your enhancement of this Ward cartoon! The man's expression and twitching hand certainly do make it look like a Birthday Spanking is on his mind!

Butch,

Like b00m, I've never seen a spanking cartoon by Don Flowers. That doesn't mean there aren't any, of course - he had a long career, and he could even have done one under a pseudonym. I haven't seen a copy of The Glamour Girls Of Don Flowers although it is available from Amazon.com (cheap, but I still can't affort it!). Of course, if I learned there was a spanking cartoon inside, I'd hock my grandmother or something to raise the necessary cash, and of course if I ever run across a Flowers "spanker" I'll be quick to post it.

I have posted Humorama "spankers" by artists other than the Big Five (Ward, Wenzel, Stiles, DeCarlo, and Homer) in the past, and if it's any consolation to you, here are the other artists we'll be seeing along with them as part of the Humorama Series before the year is out: Frank Beaven, Herc Ficklen, George Morrice, Paul Hamilton, Paraschos, Quentin Miller, Wyatt, and Reamer Keller.

02/05/2013 Update: I later did further research on Don Flowers and did not come up with any spanking cartoons. I saw one of his cartoons in an unexpected place recently, so it's still possible there's one out there, but I think it's very unlikely.