“We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde, writer and satirist; 1854-1899
Black and white cartoons – general humour
In this gallery is a selection of my general humour cartoons, many of which appeared in Punch, Private Eye and The Spectator magazines.
Click on the small images to enlarge, so that you can read the captions.
All images ©Stan Eales. No reproducing without permission.
You bastard_lion mat
A cat is angry at seeing a hunter’s lounge with a lionskin mat
TV_offensive material
A middle-aged couple are watching a warning on a TV screen
Three bears_crytsal meth
Three bears and Goldilocks. ‘And who’s been eating my crystal meth?’
Sugar house_diabetes
A witch’s sugar house; a doctor is telling the witch that she has diabetes.
Solidarity
A lone man hauls along a ‘Solidarity’ sign
Rolls Royce Harrods trolley
A posh woman pushes a Rolls Royve shopping trolley in Harrods
Rolls Royce back patch
A bar scene. Three leathered bikers have back patches. Next to them, a businessman in a pin-stripe suit has Rolls Royce back patch.
Mind if I smoke?
People are waiting at a bus stop in a street that is very polluted with traffic fumes. One man is about to light a cigarette and asks someone close by, “Mind if I smoke?”
Modern day Narcissus
Man looking at TV set while filming himself
Monday morning_Munch
A man staring into a mirror sees Munch’s ‘Scream’
One day son_junk mail
A logger and his son look on a forest of pine trees
People my parents warned me
A tramp begs with the sign, ‘I have become one of the people that my parents warned me about’.
Prisoners_sawn bar in window
A prison cell with a sawn window bar. Guilty prisoners have arrows on their clothes pointing to the culprit.
Replaced by a woman
A man enters the front door, back from work for the day. In the adjacent bedroom, his wife is in bed with another woman. The man calls out, “You’d never believe it. I got replaced by a woman at work today.”
McDonalds in Garden of Eden
Two fat American tourists meet Adam and Even in the Garden of Eden
Mafia concrete boots
Mafia men surrounding a man in concrete boots
Light shining from arse
A naked man looks at his backside in a mirror. Light is coming out of his rear-end, bouncing off the mirror into his face.
Life in the fast lane
A sports car stuck in a traffic jam
Life as an adult
A man on a Psychiatrist’s couch
Leather bar
A group of leather-clad guys are drinking in a Leather Bar. A bunch of angry cows enter. One of the guys says, “This looks like trouble.”
Junk life
A man in a room surounded by junk items: Junk TV, junk novels, junk food, junk art, junk music etc
Has been_Never will be
Two tramps sitting on the sidewalk. One wears a T shirt, ‘Has been’. The other wears a T shirt, ‘Never will be’.
Have sex with my wife
A rich man and his butler observe the wife of the former on a chaise longue. She sits, provocatively and seems domineering and sex crazy. The rich man says to the butler, “Jeeves, be a good chap and have sex with my wife for me, will you?
Honestly Giles
A man is about to hang himself but is making a mess of tying the noose. His butler hands him a silver tray on which sits a revolver, The man says, “Honestly Giles, I don’t know what I’d do without you.”
Humans migrate to mate
Two birds flying over a red-light area of town. One says, “This is where the human species migrates to mate.”
Indians_smoke signals
Two indians looking at smoke signals. One is saying, “It says that their video conferenceing is temporarily out of order.”
Is there a ring
A wedding where the bride and groom have numerous piercings. The priest asks, ‘Is there a ring?”
Junk in cows food
Two cows looking a trough of their food. One is saying, “If you think they put lots of junk in our food, you should see what they put in their own.”
Happiness
A man struggles in the direction of a sign that reads ‘Happiness’. But he is shackled by being tied to all of his worldy possessions.
Forgotten your name
A couple sit in a cafe surrounded by brand names. The man says, “I’m sorry but I think I’ve forgotten your name.”
Gentlemen its a fake
Three men in a modern art gallery are looking at an exhibit, which is a fresh turd. One expert observes the shit with a magnifying glass and declares, “Gentlemen, its a fake.”
Evolution_ape to trendy
Evolution of man from an ape to a trendy person
Emotional breakdown service
A depressed man has hung himself on the small crane of a breakdown trunk. The sign on the truck reads, ‘Fred’s Emotional Breakdown Service.’
Egyptian doctors prescription
Egyptian women looking at hieroglyphs on paper. “It’s a prescription from my doctor, but I can’t read his terrible handwriting.”
Drugs I can handle
Tramps sitting in an alleyway. One is saying, “Drugs I can handle. It’s reality that’s lethal.”
Dorian Grays web site
A fat, ugly old man sits at a computer. On screen is his home page. He is pretending to be someone more handsome, Dorian Gray.
Desert island_SOS bottle
Desert island man throwing a bottle with SOS note in it
Desert island car
A man on a desert island has cut down the few trees and fashioned a car out of them
Car Sutra
A couple having sex in a car, The man is looking at a book entitled ‘Car Sutra’.
Boy Scout and suicide knots
A boy scout helping a man to commit suicide by tying the right knots in his noose.
Bad Blues Extravaganza
A depressed man has hung himself before performing at a blues concert
Artist with shit canvases
A painter discharges a toilet on a platform in order to create his paintings.
Artist painting swirls
A painter in a linear room paints a swirly canvas
Abstract expressionist artist
An abstract expressionist painter is dead, having blown his brains out on to his canvas. Nearby, observers are saying, “He was an abstract expressionist, right until the very end.”