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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 1657
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'We want women to feel safer on the streets' says extremely scary mob… New Washington Ironyometer ironically not up to irony job... Conspiracy update: Cracker barrel special… Lives of the saints: St Lucy of Connolly… Reform Taliban controversy… Daily Mail hails 'politician who gets it'… Nurseryland to crack down on antisocial music… 'How accurate is the Daily Telegraph?' asks King and Conqueror… My summer holiday, as told to Craig Brown

Virgin's miracle
Branson's rail record has been rewritten

Carnal relations
Guess who's chasing clicks with tales of incest…

Don Peron?
Trump's love of state interference

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