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1902 cleaning woman:    "A Scrub and her Bed - the Plank."

           

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"I'm bored ... I think I'll become a beatnik!"      a Rod Filbrandt cartoon

           

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a Charles Harper illustration about salmon swimming upstream 
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"Little miseries of the human life"     by J.J. Grandville

           

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"Bonnie Boredom says: Save Boredom stamps"    National Lampoon Magazine,  1972

           

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Pushwagner art,  1970       see full size

           

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a Rod Filbrandt cartoon   "Why me?"

           

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"The 'Joy' Baby Tender and Walker"

           

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Gahan Wilson for National Lampoon Magazine       see full size

"Is it fun chopping them up?"    "Yeah. I like it. Get's stuff out of your
system. It feels good. But don't tell your mother or any of those ladies
I said that, okay?"    "Okay, Mr. Shackly."

           

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an 1866 school bully from a children's book

           

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a Randolph Caldecott illustration,  1899       see full size

           

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Life and Death:  no information about this mirror image

           

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an Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale illustration

           

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"It only hurts when I exist!"    a Bernard Kliban cartoon about meditation 
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Robert Crumb's    "Cradle to Grave"
                

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an L. Leslie Brooke children's book illustration       see full size

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Ben Tolman art

           

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at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris

           

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a Juan Gris painting,  'The Day'       see full size

           

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"Bob tingled with the joy of living"     a Harrison Cady children's illustration
           

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"Saturday Morning"   a Mary Kay Brown cartoon for  

National Lampoon Magazine
           

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a Max Klinger painting of the opposite of life

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"My God - it must really be bad tonight!" 
a Gahan Wilson cartoon about the news       see full size

           

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1822:   "Of a hundred men who are born, 50 die before the 10th year,

20 between the 10th and 20th, 10 between the 20th and 30th, (etc.)
Therefore, 6 only live to be above the age of 60."
           

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an 1800s school book shows very common everyday symbols for children of those times

           

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a David Weidman children's illustration
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an E.C. Vey cartoon for National Lampoon Magazine       see full size

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"Ed Everyman"    by Robert Crumb       see full size

           

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"Rocket Sam"      by Chris Ware

           

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Rod Filbrandt:  "Sometimes I forget how to shave ... I always end up bleeding."
"Sometimes I forget how to sleep ... I always end up shaving."