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a 1930 meeting room for discussing the perfect plan

      

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a Faber Planetary pencil sharpener and a blank sheet of paper are ready

      

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the objective is clearly defined ... a Bob Peak illustration

      

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if needed,  local thugs are available for sensitive jobs...

a J. Mahoney illustration       see full size

      

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art by Minjeong An       see full size

      

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a plan can be stopped by variables ...

Brueghel The Younger       see full size

      

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Warner Bros. animation,  1950s

      

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a story panel by Hergé,  1953

        

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a 1966 illustration

      

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a Carl Otto Czeschka illustration:  plans involving drawbridges and

 trickery can never be perfect,  or even remotely predictable

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an Edwin Georgi illustration:  wouldn't it be weird if there were people
who always had a scheming appearance  but who in truth were just
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a 1963 illustration

      

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a Mead Schaeffer illustration:   lurking on the beach at night . . .

we've all done it,  but what the hell were we thinking?

nothing good ever comes of this       see full size

      

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a Maurice Noble animation background for Warner Bros. 

... this looks problematic already       see full size

      

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an 1892 Harry Furniss cartoon about travelling lightly       see full size

        

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L. Leslie Brooke,  1897       see full size

             

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a 1914 fashion illustration

      

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  at the 1962 Worlds Fair,  the "World of Century 21" trip
began on "The Bubbleator"       see full size

      

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"Floating mines!  Jump ... or we're Dead!"      Joe Kubert comic book art,  1974  

      

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"Tnen they laughed heartily,  as if they already had the
 lad on the stake"   an E. Werenskiold illustration 
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a Hanna Barbera animation background by Art Lozzi

      

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a Henry Gerbault cartoon       see full size

      

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a Kay Nielson illustration       see full size

      

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a Jean Veber illustration       see full size

      

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a Louis Raemaekers political cartoon       see full size

      

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an Ernest Chiriaka illustration       see full size

      

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a Robert Anning Bell illustration

      

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Edward McKnight Kauffer,  1934 for Imperial Airways

      

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"Well, when do we start?"     a Stan Drake story panel