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Playboy Now Does Away With Cartoons…

Published Sun, 14 Feb 2016 16:09:48 -0600

We'd heard about the changes to Playboy Magazine, the elimination of nudity. This was met with mixed reactions at best. But we now get word that they will be eliminating something else the magazine is well known for… the cartoons. And I don't mean just nudity in the cartoons, I the cartoons all together are gone.

The word of this comes from long-time Playboy artist Dean Yeagle who says he just got confirmation from Playboy's cartoon editor that there would be no more cartoons.

Happy Valentine's Day! Just got a letter from Amanda, Playboy's cartoon editor, finally confirming what we'd suspected was coming…no more cartoons in Playboy. So here's an old one, for today:

Posted by Dean Yeagle on Sunday, February 14, 2016

This is rather shocking as one of the things that Hugh Hefner prided him self on was employing cartoonists. That is because growing up he wanted to be a cartoonist and when he started his magazine he wanted to help some of his friends from the industry get steady work. The Hero Complex did a nice article about Hugh's connection to the cartoons back in 2009.

This was the home for amazing talents like Jack Cole, Gahan Wilson, Harvey Kurtzman, Yeagle and many more.

If you take away the cartoons and the nudity… what is left to make Playboy unique from the dozens of magazines on the market like Maxium and FHM?

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