I don’t think any of the clubs look suitable for the intended purpose, which presumably is for the tongue-tied gentleman to acquire a wifelady who will continue to breathe for more than a second after their initial introduction. The clubs in the bag seem built to kill, with most designed to split open the skull and the one with the single nail to give a deep stab wound/ sever the jugular/ put out an eye. I think the best incel dating strategy sites of the time would have advised using a plain, smooth club with a soft goatskin cover so as to render the intended beloved unconscious long enough to initiate capture without leaving leaky cracks in the headbone.
For cave people, those are suspiciously cleanly-made outfits. To say nothing of the golf club bag. And usually when cavemen are depicted, they’ve got scruffy facial hair, they’re not clean-shaven.
While I think Billybob is correct, the drawing raises a lot of questions.
I think I get it, but it’s rather horrific. As narmitaj says, I believe it’s based on that cartoon idea of a caveman hitting a woman on the head with a club and dragging her back to his cave by the hair.
In this case, the caveman’s clubs are stored and selected like golf clubs.
If they’re supposed to be cave people, why are they wearing a bikini and swim trunks? Are they suggesting that MODERN men hit women over the head with clubs?
“Are they suggesting that MODERN men hit women over the head with clubs?”
Freud would tell you that the clubs are substitutes: clubs, cars, it’s all the same; in the end, the bigger the club, the smaller the…
“Are they suggesting that MODERN men hit women over the head with clubs?”
Freud would say that the clubs are substitutes; clubs, cars, it’s all the same: in the end, the bigger the club, the smaller the…
This unsettling drawing by the same artist makes it pretty clear what the guy’s going to use the club for. And yes, as narmitaj points out, it’s still the “wrong” club for that trope.
I was wondering whether this sort of “humor” ever explicitly appeared in B.C., and discovered a bit of surprising news: the women have been given names by Hart’s grandchildren:
So, cave people wore 1960s leopard print beachwear, and cave guys carried around maces and other medievel weaponry?
Good thing he didn’t try drawing a desert island cartoon; it would have been two people dressed in armor, in the middle of a forest.
Given his selection of clubs, it appears that he does this regularly, as opposed to the typical caveman who clubs one woman and marries her for life. But again, those clubs are lethal so he has to keep finding new women. Necrophilia in caveman times? I suppose it’s possible.
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caveman golfer is selecting the proper club.
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Except, of course, it’s not a golf ball he’s planning to hit with it.
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She’s enraptured by the flowers, while he sees beauty in his golf clubs?
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He looks like he’s dancing with his golf club, or playing it like an electric guitar.
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I don’t think any of the clubs look suitable for the intended purpose, which presumably is for the tongue-tied gentleman to acquire a wifelady who will continue to breathe for more than a second after their initial introduction. The clubs in the bag seem built to kill, with most designed to split open the skull and the one with the single nail to give a deep stab wound/ sever the jugular/ put out an eye. I think the best incel dating strategy sites of the time would have advised using a plain, smooth club with a soft goatskin cover so as to render the intended beloved unconscious long enough to initiate capture without leaving leaky cracks in the headbone.
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Kinda brings a whole new meaning to the phrase, “I’d hit it.”
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Do we even know these are cavepeople rather than just a couple wearing identically patterened swimsuits?
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It looks like a cartoon from the 1960s and the chap looks a bit like Spiro Agnew.
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It’s from a 1953 book, Man The Beast. Maybe it makes sense in context with accompanying text, or as part of a series of illustrations.
http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/partch.htm
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narmitaj, I was thinking LBJ and Agnew’s love child.
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He sort of looks like LBJ.
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Oh geez, narmitaj is right. It does look like the former crook-in-chief’s partner.
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If there’s one thing that those two taught us, it’s that “Honesty is the best policy“.
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billybob got it in one, though I admit the nitpicks everyone else mentions are valid. Still, I’m confident in that interpretation.
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For cave people, those are suspiciously cleanly-made outfits. To say nothing of the golf club bag. And usually when cavemen are depicted, they’ve got scruffy facial hair, they’re not clean-shaven.
While I think Billybob is correct, the drawing raises a lot of questions.
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I think I get it, but it’s rather horrific. As narmitaj says, I believe it’s based on that cartoon idea of a caveman hitting a woman on the head with a club and dragging her back to his cave by the hair.
In this case, the caveman’s clubs are stored and selected like golf clubs.
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If they’re supposed to be cave people, why are they wearing a bikini and swim trunks? Are they suggesting that MODERN men hit women over the head with clubs?
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Does today’s Monty count as a Death?
https://www.gocomics.com/monty/2020/02/26?ct=v&cti=1583166
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“Are they suggesting that MODERN men hit women over the head with clubs?”
Freud would tell you that the clubs are substitutes: clubs, cars, it’s all the same; in the end, the bigger the club, the smaller the…
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“Are they suggesting that MODERN men hit women over the head with clubs?”
Freud would say that the clubs are substitutes; clubs, cars, it’s all the same: in the end, the bigger the club, the smaller the…
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Great. Lousy internet connection.
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It can’t be good!
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It’s Virgil Partch. Don’t worry about it.
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The image on the cover of the book this cartoon appeared in seemed to be the follow up:
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This unsettling drawing by the same artist makes it pretty clear what the guy’s going to use the club for. And yes, as narmitaj points out, it’s still the “wrong” club for that trope.
https://pbase.com/csw62/image/67965252
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I was wondering whether this sort of “humor” ever explicitly appeared in B.C., and discovered a bit of surprising news: the women have been given names by Hart’s grandchildren:
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The Partch woman is clothed in the comic yet naked on the book cover? You’d think it would be the other way around.
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Before and after, I presume.
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So, cave people wore 1960s leopard print beachwear, and cave guys carried around maces and other medievel weaponry?
Good thing he didn’t try drawing a desert island cartoon; it would have been two people dressed in armor, in the middle of a forest.
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Given his selection of clubs, it appears that he does this regularly, as opposed to the typical caveman who clubs one woman and marries her for life. But again, those clubs are lethal so he has to keep finding new women. Necrophilia in caveman times? I suppose it’s possible.
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ignatzz: “…Are they suggesting that MODERN men hit women over the head with clubs?”
I’m afraid the there are some (all too many) who would do so if they could get away with it. Some of same even become Important People.
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As far as I’ve seen, though, Jane and Grace have yet to be named in the actual strip.
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Oh no, They’ve used the names.
https://www.gocomics.com/bc/2019/09/27
Every time one gets used, inevitable comments occur asking when the received names.
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