Playboy: 50 Years of Cartoons

Dec 2015 · Chronicle Books

About this ebook

For over 50 years, Playboy magazine has showcased the world's best and brightest cartoonists. Their spectacular stable of artists includes luminaries such as Buck Brown, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Jules Feiffer, Shel Silverstein, Doug Sneyd, Gahan Wilson, and hundreds of others. Hip subversives and sly revolutionaries all, Playboy's artists have continually proffered a sophisticated brand of humor sorely missing in other men's magazines. Now, Playboy celebrates its golden anniversary with this glorious collection of the finest and funniest cartoons. Handpicked by Hugh M. Hefner himself, the pages are filled with the distillation of the entire cartoon archive, offering insightful commentary on topics from the sexual revolution to relationships, money, and politics. More than 450 cartoons feature sweet young things, terrible tarts, winsome wives, suitors, and studs—a riotous chronicle of five decades of Playboy cartoons.

Ratings and reviews

I purchased this ebook mainly for the illustrations but I was very disappointed in the image quality, some pages feature four images on a single page which are rather hard to see, some cartoons have text written in by the artists which were completely illegible due to the poor resolution. I used to have the actual hardcover version of this book and really loved the artwork but this digital adaptation was a big letdown.

Why is the resolution so poor

About the author

Hugh M. Hefner is editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine.