Policeman Spanking

6 comments to Policeman Spanking

• sixofthebest

  June 14, 2012 at 4:18 pm · Reply

  Gilbert and Sullivan, those English operetta expects. Once wrote a line that went something like this. “A policeman’s lot is ‘not’, a happy one”. Well if they would look at this spanking cartoon. They would prove to be wrong. Because, this cop, is smiling, all the way to this naughty lady’s bare bottom. And one must admit, he is enjoying his labour.

• Bibliophile

  June 20, 2012 at 4:18 am · Reply

  This is the work of Texan cartoonist Jack “Herc” Ficklen (1911-1980), best known for his political cartoons for The Dallas Morning News:
  http://www.baylor.edu/lib/poage/index.php?id=57020
  http://www.baylor.edu/lib/poage/index.php?id=57142

  It was not a one-off. The following example comes from a 1957 edition of the saucy US magazine Humorama (Bill Ward and Mad Magazine stalwart Dave Berg were fellow contributors) and the above is very likely from the same source. The caption reads, “I suppose this is one of your between meals smacks!” (ho ho):
  http://images.ha.com/lf?set=path%5B4%2F8%2F3%2F0%2F4830477%5D%2Csizedata%5B220x350%5D&call=url%5Bfile%3Aproduct.chain%5D.

  I’m currently trying to crack the French. I suspect the original English caption may have been slightly different, too idiomatic for direct translation.

  • Richard Evans Lee

    June 20, 2012 at 4:45 am · Reply

    Thanks as always.

  • Bibliophile

    June 20, 2012 at 2:11 pm · Reply

    “Between meals” at higher resolution:
    http://www.chicagospankingreview.org/humorpage/herc_between_snack_spanking.html.

• Bibliophile

  July 24, 2012 at 10:41 am · Reply

  Here’s the same cartoon with its (pretty feeble) English caption, “Your dad said to either take your pants down or take your licence away”:
  http://www.chicagospankingreview.org/humorpage/herc_cop_spank.html

  The literal meaning of the French is fairly straightforward and may be presumed to chime with the original, though I’ve been unable to verify the implied idioms: “Your father has asked me to explode either your licence or your backside.”

  Two more Herc spanking cartoons:
  http://www.chicagospankingreview.org/humorpage/herc_pulling_rank.html
  http://www.chicagospankingreview.org/humorpage/herc_missed_payment_spanking.html

  • Richard Evans Lee

    July 24, 2012 at 11:49 am · Reply

    Makes sense. Thanks.