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– The Folio Book of Humorous Verse, 2002 (illustration by Posy Simmonds)

#crocodiles #couples #relationships #Posy Simmonds #Mervyn Peake #humorous verse #insensitivity #stares #staring #stalemate #heterosexuality #anthropomorphism #thick skin

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(via Atlas Obscura)

#frogs #giant frogs #raising giant frogs #nufont giants #a new industry #new industries #frogs' legs #canned frogs #frog canning #a future in frogs #small ponds #good markets #New Orleans #1937 #the Great Depression #breeders #books #failure

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Cover illustration by Bold, 1925

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#Walter de la Mare #De la Mare #trees #broomsticks #birds #birds in trees #possums #possible possums #tales #Bold #pseudonyms #unknown illustrators #dust jackets

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Fat Feet (Red Grooms, 1966)

#Red Grooms #feet #fat feet #cats #marmalade cats #cats in windows #avant-garde animation #cartoon cats #animation

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Robert Crumb, self-portrait age 17, c.1960 

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#Robert Crumb #Crumb #cats #books #typewriters #writers #17-year-olds #boys #boys with cats #typewriters and cats #adolescents #self-portraits #Old Virginia #papers #bedrooms #mess #messy bedrooms #note #notes #November 5 #Sundays #boys with glasses #skinny boys #nerds #zines #proto-zines #imaginary magazines #imaginary periodicals #17-year-old boys #youths

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Tropical Forest With Monkeys, Henri Rousseau, 1910

#Henri Rousseau #forests #tropical forests #monkeys

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- Helen Bannerman, The Story of the Teasing Monkey

#monkeys #Helen Bannerman #bananas #teasing #body image #diets #weight loss #coconuts #personal grooming #stories

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Dod Procter, “Bill and Cat,” c. 1925

#Dod Procter #cats #boys #tabby cats #boys with cats #cats with boys #boys on chairs #armchairs #cats on chairs #boys with cats on chairs #cats with boys on chairs #boys with cats in armchairs #cats with boys in armchairs #boys in socks #socks #boys named Bill #Bill Procter #Procter family #British woman artists #1920s woman artists #British woman painters #1920s woman painters

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Cat, Antonio Frasconi, 1965

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#cats #Antonio Frasconi #Frasconi #woodcuts #woodcut prints

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Polish matchbox cover, 1961 (via matchbloc.com)

#tigers #zoos #matchboxes #polish matchboxes #polish zoos #polish tigers #matchbox covers #polish matchbox covers #matches #zoos in 1961 #poland

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- James D. Carney, “Wittgenstein's Theory of Picture Representation,” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Volume 40, Issue 2, 1981

#Wittgenstein #ludwig wittgenstein #James D. Carney #picture representation #cats #cats on mats #the cat sat on the mat #philosophy #analytic philosophy #diagrams #resemblance #representation #symbols #cat philosophy #cats and philosophy #philosophy and cats #philosophy of cats #mat philosophy #mats and philosophy #philosophy and mats #philosophy of mats #aesthetics #art criticism #The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

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Mitsumasa Anno, Anno’s Britain, 1982 (via archive.org)

#Mitsumasa Anno #Anno Mitsusama #Anno's Britain #Britain #horses #boats #ruins #negative space #hail and farewell #coasts #coastlines #fields #rowboats

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Dan Baldwin, “Like Wow Man,” 2014 (via Ewbank’s)

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Marcel Broodthaers, “The Farm Animals” (detail), 1974

#cows #Broodthaers #Marcel Broodthaers #mislabelling #taxonomy #surrealism #belgian surrealism #cars #farm animals #landrovers #austins #rolls royces #mercedes #volkwagens #bmws #Citeon 2CVs #simcas #Renault 4ls #chevorlets #cadillacs #chrystlers #maseratis #fiats #jeeps

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(via archive.org)

#elephants #starlets #cinematographers #cinematography #hollywood #the ASC #ASC #American Society of Cinematographers #RSC #1937 #events of 1937 #September 1937 #male gaze #partial nudity

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Zygmunt Waliszewski, “Lying Dog,” 1855

#Zygmunt Waliszewski #Waliszewski #dogs #lying dogs #beds #dogs on beds

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The Murders in the Rue Morgue, illustration by Audrey Beardsley, 1894

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#murders #the murders in the rue morgue #Poe #Edgar Allan Poe #Beardsley #audrey beardsley #orangutans #murderers #earrings #Poe and Beardsley #murder mysteries #killer apes #apes