Monday, August 13, 2012

18 March 1959 Afterburner

This issue's graphics were mostly from AFPS. Everything here really has the feel of another time period.
This banner was presumably locally made, and was for an editorial on planning.
This one appeared without text. I honestly don't get the joke. Is that a helmet he's holding out? So he's a homeless veteran? What?
I guess this is an effective way to encourage survival during a fire, though in 2012 we'd probably tell the guy to go straight for the exit rather than to crawl around looking for a fire extinguisher.
Rhymes of the Times from AFPS. Consistently lame and dumb.
Another AFPS poster by SeBO. SeBe? I love the 1950s way of speaking: "Let 'em out buddy!" And how about the use of Uncle Sam? It was probably this kind of stuff that turned good old fashioned American patriotism into a parody of itself.

This was local art accompanying a story about a fellow at Yokota who hand-built his own WWI-era Fokker.
An AFPS SNAFU cartoon. It's hard to believe that even in 1959 this one slipped through. It's funny, but more like "men's magazine" funny.
This is pretty funny too.

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