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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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Extreme weather hits Nurseryland... Who or what is a Palantir?... Lines on the recent Historic Developments in Operation Branchform... Keir Starmer admits using ‘disappearing function'... Conspiracy update: virus special... What do we call the new $250 bill?... World war excitement kicks off!... Is Ebola going to be on the plane?... Michael Heseltine on the beach, as told to Craig Brown

A Murray dance
MD on the new health secretary

On message
Hacks' mysterious Mandelson access

Party's over
Donald Trump's birthday blues

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