Cartoons: Just Another Day at the Office

Grab your cigarettes and plug in your rotary phone: It’s time for some mid-century office cartoons!

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Jack Markow
September 27, 1955

 

“…And another thing about this place: watch out for the ol’ man. He sneaks up on ya.”
Al Johns
September 17, 1955

 

“Well, this is luck! Finding you awake.”
Hank Baeb
August 20, 1955

 

“So, after I’d waited a decent interval for his apology, he thew me out.”
G. Parker
March 17, 1956

 

Bill Yates
October 24, 1964

 

“I’m a man of few pleasures, Hendricks. I happen to enjoy underpaying you.”
Walter Goldstein
January 13, 1951

 

“It’s for someone who didn’t get married, have a baby, or leave — Me.”
Orlando Busino
December 4, 1965

 

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Comments

  1. They’re all wonderful, but I’d have to say you saved the best one for last! #7 at the bottom by Busino. This unappreciated woman has every right and justification to be taking up a collection for herself here. The only change I’d have made in the caption would have been making the ending “Me, damn it!”

    Otherwise, these ‘toons show how ‘catty’ men are in the dog eat dog world of the American office place. The simplicity of the pre-computers desks, and yes, the smoking. Thank God that went with the wind by the late ’80s, but not before some early working years of my suit smelling of cig smoke. I can’t really complain about it anymore, but hate it when I still get an accidental whiff going to my car in the parking lot. If it’s cannabis, then oh well.

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