Be careful who's lookin' over your shoulder when the new issue of Plowboy arrives in the mail-- things might get a little wild! This is a funny bit of (70's?) cowboy comedy, attached and shellacked on a large slice o'log. The artistry looks might familiar too, but with no signature anywhere on it, (and nothing comin' up on a Google search), it could be one of a dozen different Mad Magazine style wannabes, --and doin' a durn tootin' decent job at it too, I reckon!
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Whoever the artist was they sure had talent.
It is hard to pick out the most notable character in this drawing, though for me I choose the horse, since drawing a realistic horse isn't an easy thing to do.
I might be wrong, but under the post of the mailbox, what might be the outlines for blades of grass look like the letters M C, then possibly the letters aul or oul , maybe the artist snuck his signature in.
Plowboy, the magazine that put wild in the wild west.
That's a good catch, JMR777. I'm pretty sure that says "McCaulley" and this image looks like the work of one Bud McCaulley (1932-2014), unknown to me til now, who specialized in western and frontier gags just like this one. He doesn't seem to have a Wikipedia page, but there's a book called McCaulley Did It which is how he signed his work (and you can see the remains of a mostly scratched-off "did it" after his name here, too).
I like it. It is definitely in a Mad style (with specifically Frazetta-style watercolor washes), and quite a competent one at that.
OK that's a crazy amount of character work. It's really fabulous, there is so many little gags going on, the wild eyed horse, cowboy, bird, snake, and then what was probably a wild-eyed gopher who paid for his sins!
Biting the neckerchief, the raised hair, the mail in the mailbox. That's a great piece of art.
That said, I don't want to know why he took his gloves off!
Aye! Good detective work gang! Thank you :)
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