If I had cropped out the iconic Saturday Evening Post header from this comic, and presented it to you as the work of an as yet unknown, edgy young cartoonist, you may have believed me. As it is, it’s (silent) serial art on the cover of a mainstream magazine in 1961.  The artist is Constantin Alajalov, who between 1952 and 1962 created many more of these short visual stories about modern life and its trappings. Now that’s something.
(via The Trap Of Solid Gold, Steve Scott’s excellent blog on the work of John D. MacDonald, who wrote a story for this issue of the Post)
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