Playboy #11
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"Inventing the Wheel" is a surreal, offbeat tale from 1969, written and illustrated by B. Kliban, whose distinctive style brings a wry, absurdist humor to this peculiar scene: a lone man perched atop a desert statue of a woman, legs akimbo, peering down between her spread limbs. The cover by B. Kliban complements the story’s oddball tone, capturing the same curious, deadpan moment with the same unmistakable hand.
In "Inventing the Wheel," a prehistoric moment of accidental genius unfolds when a caveman shapes a rock into a wheel—only to watch it roll away and bonk a woman on the head. Dragging her by the hair back to his cave, he sets the stage for a very early, very odd kind of romance.
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Reprinted in Playboy #8 (1970), The Playboy Cartoon Album #5 (1972), Playboy's Gahan Wilson #[nn] (1973), The Best from Playboy #7 (1973), The Playboy Cartoon Album #6 (1973)
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