27 May 1959 Afterburner

Alright, we finally have a good selection of art and graphics after a number of issues that didn't have much of anything. All but one of these pieces are from AFPS, but that's ok.

This first one by Ortega is pretty good that makes its point. It accompanied an article on being careful when getting advanced pay.

People to People was a US military program in the 1950s encouraging Americans abroad to get to know the locals. Nice art by Jack Lebo.

Here's another Lebo cartoon as part of the SOP series. Everything here is wrong of course, which makes it's so interesting. As I've noted before, this is off-color and "humorous" in that 1950s/1960s Playboy kind of way.

Jack Lebo was a busy man.

Huh?

The only local piece in the 27 May issue. A variation of a banner for an on-going photo series. 

Operation Blonde was a recurring strip in US military papers that was low-brow with some occasional yucks. A kind of Sad Sack for the Playboy era.