What started out as simply another look at the fun midcentury cartoon stylings of Joe Carpenter, aka "The Master of Circular Drink Tray Art" (CLICK HERE if you missed it earlier this month), has now equally turned into an educationally Googled lesson into the wild world of psychological gaming manipulation and strategic card shark maneuvers. Yep, I never knew diddly squat about playing cards (except for Go Fish and War!), but now I know everything I could ever hope to know about false-carding, sandbagging, "Hold Ups", ducking, etc. I still don't drink alcohol, but I feel like I'm ready for Vegas anyway, baby! Annnd of course, don't forget to enjoy the funny Joe Carpenter art below while serving up all of this dirty handed deception 'n card party dranks!
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This is super adorable. Every facial expression is top notch and it sits in that uncanny cartoon vs realistic valley.
All the smoking kind of dates this!
The last item is the best. The expression on that woman is so murderous. Great work. Glad to see more from this guy.
I am speechless and spellbound. The color theory on this!!! The art!!! I think we need a class field trip to Vegas. But can it be Vegas, 1957?
Annnnd once again Brian reveals another of his unlocked fetishes upon us-- his need to be kicked in the shins under a table by a gal in heels!
It can! And I'm already feelin' smoke saturated just thinking about it! SING! "Bright light city gonna set my soul, gonna set my soul on fire..."
For almost all of the followers of AEET who are Generation X, and most if not all who are millennials, Generation Y and Z, the guy in the third picture is using a slide rule (which was the equivalent of a pocket calculator or a smart phone of today.)
Who says you don't learn neat stuff from AEET?
I like the art found on this tray, it could have been published in a booklet on bridge, in fact maybe it was.
Neat find as always, Karswell.
And hey, sometimes even ‘ol Karswell learns a thing or two in the comments as well! :)
Super! Joe Carpenter, expert tray cartoonist. What a hill to plant one's flag on. Man, the mid-century was wonderful; any little item could be tricked-out like a novelty greeting card. I very much love it.
I dig all these toons, but my favorite two faces are the ladies in the background of the slide rule image. They look so much like real people it's hard not to assume they're women Carpenter actually knew.
And for the record, a slide rule is still the easiest and most functionally ergonomic way to make multiple scale calculations for people who design things using paper (that can be both "many things recalculated to the same scale" or "many scales recalculated to the same size"). I myself used one at my copy shop all the way through the aughts, just to quickly figure enlargement percentages. I had a cell phone with a robust calculator in my pocket, but when some customer with fifty newspaper clippings wants them all "as big as possible on legal-sized paper" (a typical order in court disclosures, for example), the handy circular slide was really the only way to go. So that at least brings us up through the millennials.
Good to know that the slide rule still has its place in the 21st century. Old tech isn't bad tech if it gets the job done.
Agree!
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