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Isn't it funny, that in this era of hardcore, and FREE porn via GOOGLE, a few old geezers drool and throw away hundreds of dollars on...cartoons?

You can get anyone to draw you some porn for a fiverrrrr.

You can download and print out HUNDREDS of porn cartoons.

Oooh ooh, but on eBay, a few old jackasses outbid each other by $50 or $75 or $200 to buy "vintage" cartoons. Vintage? We're talking the fucking 70's! W

Amazing. Below, some recent sales of individual cartoons that were published in a mag stupidly titled "From Sex to Sexty."

This was sort of "Mad Magazine for Hayseeds."

Back in the 70's, when you could get all the truly raunchy AND funny cartoons you wanted via underground comix by Crumb and others, or by thumbing through HUSTLER, a small bunch of dopes (the same who thought "Hee Haw" was funny, bought "From Sex to Sexty."

You can STILL buy old copies on eBay for only a few dollars, but look at how much idiots paid a few days ago for ONE original page!

Yeah, the Lynn Harrison (no, not a famous name) cartoon IS cute. But for nearly $200 fucking dollars, you could BUY A WHORE FOR THE NIGHT.

For $200 you could have unlimited downloading from a slew of porn websites, or "premium memberships" at the major bootleg sites like Rapidgator and Deposit, which all the porn website pirates use. $200 gets you more porn photos and movies than you can watch in a LIFETIME.

How often are you going to stare at that fucking Harrison cartoon? You're gonna frame it and put it on your wall??

You could buy every issue of "Sex to Sexty" for $200 on eBay. Rip out a page and frame it, and nobody would know if it was an original or not.

Nearly $200 for an unfunny cartoon? That's more than the cartoonist got for drawing it. MUCH more.

A slight and sad irony here, is that the money does NOT go to the cartoonists. Of course not.

The seller is the PUBLISHER of that old, long-dead magazine. Like all scummy publisher bastards, he didn't pay for one-time usage. He had the cartoonists over a barrel. He bought ALL rights.

Now that he's discovered EBAY, he's been cagey, and doling out maybe a dozen a week, keeping the suckers drooling and looking and fighting each other to add to their "collections."

The publisher calls the shots now, as he did back then.

What could the freelancers do but say "Oh, sure, sir, OK, a chintzy check and YOU own the rights." Playboy-level artwork, this is NOT. Look at that Dawson asshole. Every chick has the same facial expression, the same ballooning tits. The guys have the same giant noses. Hefner, who published Vargas and Dedini and other REAL talents, would've refused to let that guy in the door! Most of these "Sexty" guys could NEVER have sold to Playboy, or half the mags at the next few levels down. There was also a BIG drop in pay from Playboy to Gem or Nugget, and down to "Sexty." Figure $50 for a full page cartoon if you were lucky.

If cartoonists held out for more money, or demanded their art back, they simply didn't get any work. They were told, "I got plenty of cartoonists willing to work with me for what I'm WILLING to pay."

True enough. The freelance world always was and still is loaded with scabs, and a lot of disorganized, desperate dimwits. There is no union. Anybody can submit cartoons and low-ball somebody trying to make a living at it.

When you get a bit older, which is usually when you realize that half your life is over, you are no longer interested in COLLECTING shit. You know that nobody will want it and that when you go to sell it, you'll be laughed at.

But...as we see, there are still a few suckers out there who think they'll live forever, or think that old "girly" art from unknowns will rise in value. No, it won't. Already there are sellers on EBAY making chump change by putting 50 or 100 girly mags on a DVD-ROM, or a few hundred cartoons on a CD-ROM. There are "archive" websites as well as forums where everything is digitized and tossed around. So, you have an ORIGINAL cartoon? So what, here's a few hundred you can print out and they'll look JUST like 'em.

Ronnie Barker used to collect saucy postcards. Guess what he did. He put them into a book so EVERYONE could enjoy them, at a fraction of the price HE paid to collect them. What a rich, NICE fellow to do that. Oh, and the market for the original postcards? Almost nil. Who needs 'em when you can buy the book?