I’ve been looking at it on and off all morning and I just don’t get it.
It’s a New Yorker cartoon from 1967. New Yorker cartoons generally aren’t especially funny, but I usually understand the point of the joke.
I’ve been looking at it on and off all morning and I just don’t get it.
It’s a New Yorker cartoon from 1967. New Yorker cartoons generally aren’t especially funny, but I usually understand the point of the joke.
Although the comments seem to have figured out there is no meaning. If I were to force a political meaning out of this, I’d say it have to do with someone being nosy. Perhaps there was some journalist who’d found smth big recently, had it been 5 year later I would’ve said Watergate.
One google search shows the biggest event in the US in 1967 being the Detroit riots (I’m not 'merican), but perhaps this calls the cops as being nosy in the affairs of others.
In 1967 Vietnam protests were really gaining steam. This was the year of the Pentagon march with Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman, and countless other activists. If there was a political meaning to this cartoon, it could have been related to the war and its backlash.
The sort of ‘military’ style to the guy’s jacket makes me think you are on to something.
'Merica shoving its nose in Vietnam where it ought not have.