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"Why shouldn't I use it? There's a good fifty miles left in these tires."
"Why shouldn't I use it? There's a good fifty miles left in these tires."

"Why shouldn't I use it? There's a good fifty miles left in these tires."

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1942
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon ink
DimensionsObject: 13 1/4 × 12 1/4 in. (33.7 × 31.1 cm) Sheet: 13 1/4 × 12 1/4 in. (33.7 × 31.1 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.0829
“If anything happens to me I want you to have the two good tires on my old flivver.”
“If anything happens to me I want you to have the two good tires on my old flivver.”
Alan Dunn
1942
"Temperature sixty-five degrees, humidity fifty-nine percent, winds out of the south at five miles an hour, barometer rising, and the dollar steady."
"Temperature sixty-five degrees, humidity fifty-nine percent, winds out of the south at five miles an hour, barometer rising, and the dollar steady."
Alan Dunn
1971
No Caption (letting air out of tires so truck can enter tunnel)
No Caption (letting air out of tires so truck can enter tunnel)
Alan Dunn
1951
"All right, I am afraid! I'm afraid to eat, to drink, to smoke, to drive, to fly, to breathe! And why shouldn't I be?"
"All right, I am afraid! I'm afraid to eat, to drink, to smoke, to drive, to fly, to breathe! And why shouldn't I be?"
Alan Dunn
1962
“Well anyhow, we landed at ____on the ___of ___ and now at ___ which is 90 miles from______.”
“Well anyhow, we landed at ____on the ___of ___ and now at ___ which is 90 miles from______.”
Alan Dunn
1942
Architecture was ill-prepared to cope with eyes that passed 50-60 miles per hour.
Architecture was ill-prepared to cope with eyes that passed 50-60 miles per hour.
Alan Dunn
1957
"I cud not understand why the doctors made so much fuss about my teeth but it is all clear now since I got some of the beef the army uses in beef stew."
"I cud not understand why the doctors made so much fuss about my teeth but it is all clear now since I got some of the beef the army uses in beef stew."
Alan Dunn
1941
"You told her, Gus - Don't bore Sylvia and eat your potatoes! Naomi, I ought to warn you there's ice cream - wine, dear, Naomi and George have no wine - I must apologize about the plumbing - I do wish the neighbors wouldn't go to the john while I'm giving a dinner - more limas, dear? - Limas, Sylvia? - Gus, more limas? - Duffy, do go on about Perry and what were his rubbers doing in the ice box -."
"You told her, Gus - Don't bore Sylvia and eat your potatoes! Naomi, I ought to warn you there's ice cream - wine, dear, Naomi and George have no wine - I must apologize about the plumbing - I do wish the neighbors wouldn't go to the john while I'm giving a dinner - more limas, dear? - Limas, Sylvia? - Gus, more limas? - Duffy, do go on about Perry and what were his rubbers doing in the ice box -."
Alan Dunn
1948
"I can give you Samuel F. B. Morse, Mr. Wells, or Mr. Fargo right away, but there's a half hour's delay in getting through to Alexander Graham Bell."
"I can give you Samuel F. B. Morse, Mr. Wells, or Mr. Fargo right away, but there's a half hour's delay in getting through to Alexander Graham Bell."
Alan Dunn
1970
"I suppose there's quite a story behind all this."
"I suppose there's quite a story behind all this."
Alan Dunn
1953
"We got it cheap because it's outside the fifty-mile television radius."
"We got it cheap because it's outside the fifty-mile television radius."
Alan Dunn
1939
"They agree to turn over control of the university to us, but there's an "if" to it. We have to grant the administration the same right to sit in, protest, and dissent that they granted us!"
"They agree to turn over control of the university to us, but there's an "if" to it. We have to grant the administration the same right to sit in, protest, and dissent that they granted us!"
Alan Dunn
1968