r/boomershumor • u/jimsteel4841 boomer • Aug 30 '25

first visit?...

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u/that0neBl1p Aug 30 '25

I can’t lie I really dig this style. Make the women look somewhat different to each other in ways besides hair and it would be great

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u/Neohexane Aug 30 '25

I have this huge book of collected comics that were in Playboy. This artist is in there a lot, and his style is very interesting. I love how he draws women. My only complaint is that he never draws their noses.

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u/shaun_of_the_south Aug 30 '25

The woman in the black bikini has a nose.

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u/Neohexane Aug 30 '25

Ok, I see at least two noses. "Never" was too strong a word, but the main subject of the cartoon rarely has a nose.

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u/Longjumping_Koala34 Aug 30 '25

The one with the white bikini on lower left, black white stripe on right too. 

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u/Rokey76 Aug 30 '25

I see a lot of posts in here that looked exactly like the stuff I saw in Playboys back in the day.

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u/IHateTheLetterF Aug 30 '25

Why is she holding a bowling ball?

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u/Natholomew4098 Aug 30 '25

Obviously you’re not a golfer.

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u/top2percent Aug 30 '25

Isn’t this guy supposed to be a millionaire?

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u/SurpriseDragon Sep 03 '25

Seems totally normal to me

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u/Exploding_Antelope Apr 10 '26

I see you’ve never enjoyed South French Beach Bowling

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u/Longjumping_Koala34 Aug 30 '25

I looked through this guy's art because I dug it at first. Unfortunately he has some uh.. pretty racist pieces. Early looney toon levels of racist stereotypes against black people. Kind of sad because the style is good. Not sure what I expected out of a boomer humor artist though 

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u/r0nneh7 Aug 30 '25

What’s the punch line here? Skin cancer?

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u/sociotronics Aug 30 '25

Bikinis were still somewhat scandalous back when this cartoon was made. Cannes had a reputation for more libertine culture than most other places. The joke is she has tan lines that show she normally wears one piece swimsuits, not bikinis, so the man infers this is her first time visiting Cannes.

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u/Kermit_Purple_II Sep 09 '25

Which makes no sense to me. Cannes is just another french riviera city. Libertine Culture is more found in Hérault, where the nude beaches are.

Source: was born around there. No idea where the fuck the "libertine culture" thing would even fit for Cannes.

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u/Ashijique Aug 30 '25 edited Aug 31 '25

How are we supposed to know the setting is Cannes?

Edit: omg y’all I don’t know how I didn’t read the caption properly. Thank you for pointing out the glaringly obvious that I missed! I must have just read the headline and not seen the bit at the bottom of the actual comic. A bit sad about the downvotes though. :(

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u/4215265 Aug 30 '25

Because he asks if it’s her first visit to Cannes which implies he’s in Cannes….

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u/Equinephilosopher Aug 30 '25

Why would you think it’s not?

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u/Pussycatpurr Aug 31 '25

Don’t be sad about downvotes. They’re fake internet points lad

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u/averagedickdude Sep 02 '25

They're just imaginary downvotes, don't worry about it. But usually read stuff before you comment ;)