Existing comment:
(39) "I'll be ready to leave, Pop, just as soon as Mr. Smith gets through showing us some stag film," ca. 1962.
Ink wash and charcoal. Published in Argosy magazine.
Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature
Prints and Photographs Division
LC-DIG-ppmsca-09116 (39)
Double entendres are classic sources of humor for gag cartoonists. Ed Dahlin (b. 1928) captures the innocence of a child watching some home movies about deer for a Boy Scout meeting with the bawdy sense of the term "stag film." Dahlin studied cartooning at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. He contributed gag cartoons to several publications, including, the Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Journal, Look, and Parade. He became the art director of McGraw Hill's filmstrip unit and eventually started his own production company, producing more than 2000 educational filmstrips. |