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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 1654
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The top 10 places to avoid this summer as JD Vance holidays in the Cotswolds... Relief as Trump puts the thumbscrews on Putin... Yes, Prime Minister: secret script at last revealed... Nation has no interest in Sir Ed Davey proposals... An AI Doctor Writes... Conspiracy theory hits ironyometer... Shock as protester turns out to be middle class... Gregg Wallace diagnosed with ‘awfulism’... The Garden Path by Raynor Winn, as told to Craig Brown

Winn loss
Salt in the wounds for the Salt Path writer

Summit amiss
Update on the royal rift

Doctors & purses
MD on the latest doctors' strikes

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