Progress Cartoons

You are here.

Artist:
Leighton, Robert
Search ID:
CC123483
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3364x2373 pixels (unwatermarked)
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caveman, cavemen, primitive, primitives, prehistoric man, prehistoric men, evolution, evolving, evolve, evolves, evolved, darwin, darwinism, charles darwin, chart, charts, map, maps, direction, directions, you are here, directing, location, locations, timeline, evolution of man, prehistory, progress, progression, biology, education, educating

"We'll start out by speaking in simple declarative sentences."

Artist:
Cotham, Frank
Search ID:
CC123995
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3691x4173 pixels (unwatermarked)
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language, languages, linguistic, linguistics, education, educate, educating, teach, teaching, history, historic, historical, learn, learning, speak, speaking, oral history, stone age, stone ages, iron age, iron ages, neanderthal, neanderthals, homo erectus, homo sapien, homo sapiens, caveman, cavemen, cave man, cave men, cave-man, cave-men, prehistory, prehistoric, cave, caves, declarative, simple, simplicity, complicate, complicated, complex, progress, progression, progressions, progressive

"Jason is cute as a bug, but he sure is one thickheaded little sucker."

Artist:
Lorenz, Lee
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CC38649
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2056x1831 pixels (unwatermarked)
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parent-teacher conference, teacher-parent conference, parents night, parent's night, school report, school reports, school, schools, schooling, cute, cuteness, thickheaded, intellect, intellects, iq, iqs, teacher, teachers, classroom, classrooms, progress

"What about that! His brain still uses the old vacuum tubes."

Artist:
Cotham, Frank
Search ID:
CC32705
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2126x2067 pixels (unwatermarked)
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brain, brains, mind, surgery, surgeons, surgeon, doctor, doctors, medical, medicine, operation, operations, patient, patients, vacuum tubes, vacuum tube, computer, computers, first-generation, first generation, technology, progress, circuit, circuits, hospital, hospitals, surprise, evolution, evolve, evolving, technologies, digital, digitalisation, digitalization

"When I was your age, things were exactly the way they are now."

Artist:
Leighton, Robert
Search ID:
CC134575
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2889x2182 pixels (unwatermarked)
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caveman, cavemen, neanderthal, neanderthals, progress, progressive, technology, stagnant, stagnation, father, fathers, son, sons, parent, parents, parenting, technological progress, nostalgia, nostalgic, generation gap, generation gaps, prehistoric, prehistory

The Three Graces

Artist:
Chast, Roz
Search ID:
CC43873
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2199x1358 pixels (unwatermarked)
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virtue, virtues, virtuous, age, aging, growing old, middle age, middle-age, faith, hope, charity, graces, christian, christians, three graces, uncharitable, excited, aged, modern-life, magazine, magazine, bitter, bitterness, progress, progresses, life, jaded, unimpressed, thinking, thoughts, daughter of zeus, daughters of zeus

Before and After.

Artist:
Mueller, P. S.
Search ID:
CC40178
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2780x2038 pixels (unwatermarked)
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age, aging, gaining weight, fat, fatten, fattening, teenager, teenagers, pant, pants, trouser, trousers, filling, fattens, unhealthy, ages, aged, fashion, fashions, contrast, contrasting, progress, life, baggy pants, baggy trousers, loose, clothes, clothing, process, processes

"It's cool, but you kinda miss the trumpet fanfare, right?"Sign: "WELCOME JOSH!"

Artist:
Dernavich, Drew
Search ID:
CC132644
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4761x4012 pixels (unwatermarked)
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heaven, angel, angels, welcome, welcoming, st. peter's gate, entering heaven, entrance, entrances, enter heaven, dead, death, dying, fanfare, trumpet, trumpets, billboard, billboards, lights, name in lights, modern life, modernising, modernizing, modernisation, modernization, innovation, progress, technology, arrival, arrivals, new arrival, new arrivals

"And, in the ongoing saga of Western civilization, declines continue to lead advances by a wide margin."

Artist:
Mankoff, Bob
Search ID:
CC35309
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3045x2894 pixels (unwatermarked)
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television, media, news, stock market, stock report, stock reports, the west, western civilization, western civilisation, advance, advances, advancement, progress, progressive, progressives, decline of western civilization, trump, donald trump, political correctness, politically correct, market report, market reports, mankoff

Angry White Males.

Artist:
Chast, Roz
Search ID:
CC37159
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2120x1932 pixels (unwatermarked)
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angry white males, white, man, men, anger, angry, angers, psychology, psychological, where are they now?, family, families, fashion, fashions, reason, reasons, progress, progressed, education, college, family, families, pants, model railroads, outlet, outlets, conservative, conservatives, reactionary, reactionaries, politics, political

"This just in! A fifteen-man nineteen-forties swing-era-style big band was discovered intact today in Brno, Czechoslovakia."

Artist:
Miller, Warren
Search ID:
CC32005
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2204x1979 pixels (unwatermarked)
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report, reporting, reports, tv, news, t.v., television, televisions, music, musical, archaeology, archaeological, swing, band, bands, nineteen forties, 1940s, 40s, uncovered, progress, forgotten, forgets, big band, big band era, big band swing, brno, czechoslovakia, czech republic, discovered, backwards, absurd

Progress

Artist:
Mankoff, Bob
Search ID:
CC42216
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2935x3292 pixels (unwatermarked)
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statues, telephones, cellular, cellphone, cellphones, cell phone, cell phones, cell, cells, mobile, mobiles, digital age, smartphone, smartphones, progress, businessman, businessmen, modern life, progress, pedestal, pedestals, memorial, memorials, statue, statues, sculpture, sculptures, technological advances, technological advancements, mankoff

Coming Sooner Than You Think.

Artist:
Chast, Roz
Search ID:
CC43944
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1808x2552 pixels (unwatermarked)
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future, futures, growing old, older, aging, ages, aged, science, science fiction, science-fiction, sci-fi, computer, computers, progress, progressing, understanding, understood, technology, technologies, tech, invention, inventions, cautious, out of touch, in touch, foreshadow, foreshadowing, predict, predicting, development, development, life, old

Sideshow of the future.

Artist:
Chast, Roz
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CC35909
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sideshows, sideshow, circus, circuses, fair, fairs, fayre, fayres, exhibition, exhibitions, exhibits, exhibit, future, futuristic, satire, satirical, freak, freakish, freaks, freakshow, modern life, modern-life, families, family, technology, technologies, progress, progresses, generations, generational, show, shows, travelling-show, travelling show

"Technically, we have an open marriage, but so far there's just Michael and me."

Artist:
Smaller, Barbara
Search ID:
CC141213
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5700x4139 pixels (unwatermarked)
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open marriage, open, marriage, open marriages, marriages, married, marry, marries, open relationship, open relationships, husband, husbands, wife, wives, spouse, spouses, lonely, unsuccessful, ineffective, ineffectual, progress, progressing, awkward, awkward conversation, pointless, useless, relationship, relationships, technicality, technically, formal, formally, de facto

"Oh, great, more innovative variations on things."

Artist:
Kaplan, Bruce
Search ID:
CC141284
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5282x4250 pixels (unwatermarked)
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news, newspaper, newspapers, tech, technology, technologies, invent, inventions, innovate, innovation, innovations, innovative, improve, improvement, sarcasm, sarcastic, useless, pointless, angry, unprovoked, upgrade, upgrading, upgrades, progress, progressing, progression, progresses, middle age, out of touch, generation gap

"Basically, we're all trying to say the same thing."

Artist:
Wilson, Gahan
Search ID:
CC29109
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clock, clocks, watch, watches, time, age, analogue, analog, digital, hand, hands, minute, hour, hourglass, hourglasses, sandglass, sandglasses, sand clock, sand clocks, head, heads, same, technology, progress, innovation, invention, inventions, face, faces, timer, timers, keeping time

"Because I've already said all I can say in this particular medium."

Artist:
Gerberg, Mort
Search ID:
CC32056
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evolution, evolve, evolved, evolves, legs, leg, land, science, scientific, sciences, biology, biological, darwin, darwinism, darwinian, theory of evolution, evolutionary theory, science, scientific, scientist, scientists, scientifically, medium, mediums, art, arts, animal, animals, talking animal, talking animals, fish, fishes, artistic, artistically, nature, natural, onward and upward, progress, progressing, progression

"Next week we'll try sitting in a chair."

Artist:
Stevens, Mick
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CC123438
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fainting couch, fainting couches, therapy, therapist, therapists, cliche, cliches, cliched, chair, chairs, sit, sits, sitting, psychologist, psychologists, psychology, psychiatrist, psychiatrists, psychiatry, mental health, progress, progresses, progressing, baby steps, bad habit, bad habits, lazy, laziness, get better, gets better, getting better

"I saw Elvis kissing Santa Claus."

Artist:
Barsotti, Charles
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CC35105
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therapy, therapists, therapist, counselor, counselors, counseling, counsellor, counsellors, counselling, psychology, psychologist, psychologists, psychiatry, psychiatrist, psychiatrists, psychoanalysis, santa, santa claus, father christmas, elvis, elvis presly, progress, making progress, dream, dreams, strange dream, strange dreams, childhood trauma

"Hard to believe this was all rain forest just fifteen years ago."

Artist:
Dedini, Eldon
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CC29997
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city, cities, urban, urban living, city life, city living, modern life, modern cities, skyscraper, skyscrapers, traffic, air pollution, noise pollution, noisy, noise, crowded, cityscape, rainforest, rainforests, rain forest, rain forests, forest, forests, nature, environment, environmental destruction, destruction, destroy, deforestation, depletion, clearing, clearance, progress

"When the dust settles we're all going to be very dusty."

Artist:
Cullum, Leo
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CX301149
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business, businesses, businessmen, businessman, office, offices, executive, executives, businesswomen, businesswoman, saying, sayings, expression, expressions, when the dust settles, clear, clarity, progress, dust, meeting, meetings, dusty

"If you ask me, he's come too far too fast."

Artist:
Lorenz, Lee
Search ID:
CC34760
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animal, animals, talking animal, talking animals, insect, insects, bug, bugs, butterfly, butterflies, caterpillar, caterpillars, nature, science, biology, metamorphosis, transformation, transformations, too far, too fast, progress, progression, promotion, promotions, gossip, gossiping, development, developing, progressing, advancing, advancement

Donald Trump leads the Republican party as several people try to hold the Republican elephant back.

Artist:
Steed, Edward
Search ID:
EQ100259
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6600x8700 pixels (unwatermarked)
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party leader, party leaders, leader of the party, leader, leaders, leading, lead, leads, president, presidents, trump, donald trump, president trump, president donald trump, never trump, #nevertrump, activist, activists, activism, republican, republican party, gop, party of lincoln, hold back, holds back, holding back, held back, progress, progressive, progressives, regress, regresses, regressing, unstoppable

"The greatest advance of the digital era has been the rebranding of narcissism as sharing."

Artist:
Byrnes, Pat
Search ID:
BA500391
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2224x2012 pixels (unwatermarked)
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social media, social networking, social network, social networks, post, posts, posting, sharing, newsfeed, newsfeeds, technology, computer, computers, online, internet, digital era, narcissism, narcissist, narcissists, ego, egotistic, egoist, egoists, egotistical, vain, vanity, self-centred, self-centered, selfie, selfies, rebranding, advancement, progress, millennial, millennials, modern life