These appeared in July, 1973. How many cultural references from that particular time can you recognize?
50 Years Ago in the New Yorker: A Cultural Reference Test
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Time for Comic Therapy
The Agony of de Feet
There’s an obvious reference to a security gate in this comic, but why just shoes and lower legs?
A hasty X-it?
X is sometimes used as a shorthand for Christ (hence Xmas) but that doesn’t seem to make the meaning clearer.
Can’t Grog this
Philip sends in this puzzler
Art I Don’t Understand (AIDU)
Because of his heritage, I assume that Liniers knows more about Picasso than I do. I just don’t have the knowledge of his paintings to know what Liniers intended here.
Clean up this joke
Usual John sent this in, noting “Attic cleaning month? It looks like five minutes to sweep away the cobwebs and he’s done. What in the world is the Wizard talking about?”
So, is this just poor execution, which would be cleared up by drawing more stuff in that attic (so it looks more like mine)? Or is there something specific about the objects up here, either the wheel or the box circled in red in the second picture?
60 Years Ago in The New Yorker
This is from May, 1963. A year later, Khrushchev will be forced into retirement, so we did find out who would be so much worse to deal with after he was gone. Was he seen to be on the ropes then? Nina was Nikita’s second wife, although they didn’t marry until 1965.
Yes, CIDU discourages political discussions, but the statute of limitations on this one is likely past.
70 Years Ago in the New Yorker
Please WHAT?
This Comic Doth Confuse Too Much
Comics I Don't Understand 