Sunday, January 4, 2015

Signs of Laughter

Signs of Laughter, edited by Tom Gallagher for Fawcett Gold Medal Books in 1970 is a silly collection of real signs, (some planned, some just happened that way) and given an extra kick to the funny buns with some very well drawn illustrations. There's a great St. Augustine quote at the beginning of the book taken from the De Doctrina Christiana (published in 397): "A sign is a thing which, apart from the impression that it presents to our senses, causes of itself some other thing to enter our thoughts." Indeed, St. Augustine, indeed!


















9 comments:

J_D_La_Rue_67 said...

Is the one on the cover a real sign?
Pretty stupid, no?
The others are clever, tough, and very funny.
Love n. 9!

Mr. Karswell said...

>Is the one on the cover a real sign?

well it's obvious they meant "remove your clothes from the machines", not your body!

J_D_La_Rue_67 said...

Yes but why leave some of your clothes IN the machine AFTER the washing? Who would do this?
I mean, unless you're Nick Kamen...

Mr. Karswell said...

I've found clothes left in dryers by previous users when using public laundromats before... socks mostly.

Craftypants Carol said...

i like the nude crossing lady. she looks like she's doing the watusi across the street

JMR777 said...

Funny comics then and now. Maybe these were the proto-Failblog images before the dawn of the internet.

Mr. Karswell said...

haha, maybe!

Ok, back to doing the Walktusi

Mestiere said...
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Mr. Karswell said...

Give her a ring :)