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A Cartoon History
A Cartoon History

Edited by Nick Newman

23rd September 2013

Five decades of classic comic art

Featuring more than 1,000 of the funniest jokes ever drawn, Private Eye A Cartoon History is a decade by decade chronicle of the gags and issues that tickled the nation's funny bone sometimes with a sledgehammer.








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Private Eye Issue 1674
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My hell at the White House Correspondents' Dinner... Petrol station robberies soar... NRA reacts with horror to attempted assassination... Yes, Prime Minister – with Jim Starmer... This is the week that Starmer goes... That King Charles/President Trump state banquet menu in full... Polanski in new controversy... Euphoria: 'Is this the most disgusting series ever on television?'... The installation of that new Apple CEO in full... Memories of HM Queen Elizabeth II, as told to Craig Brown

Joint effort
MD on knee replacements

Sun stroke
The cost of harnessing too much solar energy

God's will
Trump's mission to win back the Christian right

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