This is an oldie: I didn’t get when it when I first saw it 50-odd years ago…
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Me neither. Maybe she hasn’t gotten to doing missing teeth yet.
Possibly that you don’t expect a middle-aged woman to be defacing advertising?
She’s choosing to contest the advertiser’s suggestion that women are valuable precisely to the extent that they resemble the spokesmodel. Perhaps because she finds it difficult to compete at her horribly advanced middle-age and is thus intensely jealous of the pretty l’il thing in the bloom of youth.
When people see vandalized ads, they tend to picture adolescent youth, specifically MALE youth, as the culprits. Or, at least, that was the fundamental assumption, I believe.
Maybe she’s a little envious of the youthful beauty on the ad and thus defaces her with a moustache?
Down-market version of the creation of “L.H.O.O.Q.”
At first I thought that the ad was for lipstick and that she was using that lipstick to add a beard and mustache. But the ad is for toothpaste.
Relayed from Ron:
It doesn’t make much sense because it’s 1 of 2. The next one shows her turning around to leave and she has the same beard and mustache as she just drew.
That link goes to (a quite worthwhile) full web page of Addams cartoons. Here is an embed of the particular four-panel block that Julien found, which contains the original posted segment:
@ Julien (9) – I think Bill would have been very glad to learn that the original sequence was really four frames, and not just two, but your link was especially valuable because it contained an Addams cartoon that I had never seen before (and do not understand, so I’ll post it as a CIDU).
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Me neither. Maybe she hasn’t gotten to doing missing teeth yet.
Possibly that you don’t expect a middle-aged woman to be defacing advertising?
She’s choosing to contest the advertiser’s suggestion that women are valuable precisely to the extent that they resemble the spokesmodel. Perhaps because she finds it difficult to compete at her horribly advanced middle-age and is thus intensely jealous of the pretty l’il thing in the bloom of youth.
When people see vandalized ads, they tend to picture adolescent youth, specifically MALE youth, as the culprits. Or, at least, that was the fundamental assumption, I believe.
Maybe she’s a little envious of the youthful beauty on the ad and thus defaces her with a moustache?
Down-market version of the creation of “L.H.O.O.Q.”
At first I thought that the ad was for lipstick and that she was using that lipstick to add a beard and mustache. But the ad is for toothpaste.
Relayed from Ron:
It doesn’t make much sense because it’s 1 of 2. The next one shows her turning around to leave and she has the same beard and mustache as she just drew.
Oh, that’s good.
I hate when half-gags are in circulaion.
This is a four images comic strip, one of my favorites ! Here is a link http://whatido.com/posts/inspiration-day-charles-chill-addams !
Thanks very much, Julien!
That link goes to (a quite worthwhile) full web page of Addams cartoons. Here is an embed of the particular four-panel block that Julien found, which contains the original posted segment:
@ Julien (9) – I think Bill would have been very glad to learn that the original sequence was really four frames, and not just two, but your link was especially valuable because it contained an Addams cartoon that I had never seen before (and do not understand, so I’ll post it as a CIDU).