Psychedelic Kliban

 I've previously published this 1967 psychedelic poster, by Kliban, elsewhere on this blog, but I found a contemporary newspaper article that provides some context.

San Raphael Daily Independent Journal 1968-06-28

Kliban cartoons from "Absolutely No U.S. Personnel Permitted Beyond This Point" (1972)

Kliban was one of the major contributors to this 1972 collection of anti Viet-Nam war cartoons entitled "Absolutely No U.S. Personnel Permitted Beyond This Point". It was published by Delta and names Bill Lee (Editor), Jules Feiffer (Introduction), Ron Wolin (Foreword). The full list of contributors can be seen below.

In contrast to his Cat cartoons, these perhaps demonstrate his political opinions more clearly.

I'm  unsure if any of these cartoons had been published previously, but they represent perhaps the biggest collection of Kliban cartoons in a single publication outside of his later books.

In my opinion, not all these cartoons are up the high artistic standard of his typical published material, and stylistically a couple seem to be earlier works. I guess the subject matter may have prevented then from being published elsewhere until this collection presented an opportunity for their publication.  

Front Cover

Rear cover

Kliban cartoon from Look magazine 1963-02-12