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 :)
Thanks for solving the mystery, Mr. Cavin. You win the Sherlock deerstalker cap of the internet award.
While the signature might be scuffed, the rest of the art is in great shape for artwork from the seventies.
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