Spanking cartoon
Very soon after the new style of humorous drawings, the cartoon, emerged in the mid-19th century, artists began to draw spanking cartoons. These were either illustrations for stories, poems, or newspaper articles, or were "standalone" humorous cartoons with just a short line of text, or no words at all.
Vintage spanking cartoons
These cartoons presented the subject of spanking for the first time from a whole variety of new perspectives. What used to be a serious, grave matter - the subject of punishment - was now reflected with new eyes that saw the richness of its many facettes, from the humorous to the pathetic, from the cruel to the romantic, from the contradictory to the absurd. Spanking proved a subject ideal for the cartoon. The audience loved it because everyone would immediately sympathize with the poor chap suffering the painful and embarassing chastisement.
Many 19th century spanking cartoons were drawn by artists such as Wilhelm Busch, the "grandfather of the comic". In the beginning of the 20th century spanking postcards became very popular. These were postcards that featured a humorous spanking cartoon, usually accompanied with a short line of text which was often a pun or other play with words.
When the first comics in the modern sense of the word came up in the early 20th century, a lot of them made use of the great popularity of the spanking theme. For more on the "golden age of spanking in comics", see spanking in comics.
The subject of spanking was also often used methaphorically in political cartoons which appeared in newspapers. Here, the spanker and the spankee characters were often caricatures of politicians or nations.
Political spanking cartoon from Germany, World War I.
Bestrafung an der frischen Luft, cartoon by Thomas Theodor Heine.
In the 1960s and 1970s the practice of spanking children became increasingly frowned upon, and this put effectively an end to the popularity of spanking cartoons which were now considered politically incorrect, cruel, and "not funny" anymore.
Modern spanking cartoons
The 1990s brought a renewal of the spanking cartoon with the emerge of the first spanking art Internet fan communities. Among the fans were some who used their creative potential, became hobby spanking artists and shared their artworks for free with other fans.
Also, some of the vintage cartoons from the early 20th century, which were now in the public domain and could therefore be reproduced without copyright infringment, became popular again. Some of the spanking postcards were reprinted. Other vintage cartoons were scanned by their owners and shared with other fans digitally via the Internet.
Links
- Spanking Satirical Cartoons
- Spanking cartoons on Cartoon Stock
- French spanking cartoons on Discipline Domestique
- Another cartoon: "Smacking Machine"
- Another cartoon: "Tanning studio"
- Spanking fox cartoon
- Spanked fox cartoon
- Sinclair the wolf spanks Trevor the fox
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