I’ve been looking at it on and off all morning and I just don’t get it.

It’s a New Yorker cartoon from 1967. New Yorker cartoons generally aren’t especially funny, but I usually understand the point of the joke.

  • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev
    0·
    4 months ago

    If it’s got cultural context, I’m not sure of it, but otherwise it looks like it’s just got a theme of incompleteness that the brain fills in similar to some optical illusions like the Kanizsa triangle. The man has no legs, the chair is incomplete, the table’s top edge isn’t there, the nose.

    I do notice some decoration on the collar and shoulders that might point to it being a specific person. Do you know which issue it is from 67?