What Am I Doing Here? Existential absurdist cartoons from the 1940s

[frauenfelder]

Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/10/11/what-am-i-doing-here-existent.html

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[Papasan]

My personal fav.

[gracchus]

It’s like a collaboration between Charles Addams, Dr Seuss, Werner Herzog, and David Lynch.

[SpunkyTWS]

How nice to know I’m not the only one to feel this way. And by “nice” I mean “disconcerting”.

[8080256256]

I’d say this one is pretty… suggestive.

[joematango]

I’ve been looking for this book for over 40 years! It was in my dad’s library when I was a kid and I loved it – long before I could read. I didn’t know the title or artist 'til your post and you can imagine what it was like trying to describe it to used booksellers.

[Uncascrooge]

[LearnedCoward]

The third through fifth pictures represent voting for Trump, third party, and Clinton respectively