Playboy #8
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Different Goals," a 1967 issue of Playboy, Jim Willoughby crafts a quietly unsettling story of marital tension and surreal release. A man takes his wife to the beach, where her persistent nagging leads to an increasingly strange and intimate act—she’s buried in the sand, inch by inch, with a strange calm that defies explanation. The story, written, drawn, and inked by Willoughby, unfolds with a deadpan precision that lingers long after the final panel.
In "Different Goals," a young couple checks into a beachside motel, their moment of intimacy interrupted when the boy abandons the room for a surfboard. The girl’s quiet disappointment lingers as he heads for the waves, leaving their shared evening uncertain.
In "Burying a Problem," a man's attempt to escape his wife’s constant nagging takes a surprisingly literal turn when he starts burying her in the sand at the beach—only to keep going long after she’s clearly buried. The story unfolds with dry wit and a surreal twist, capturing a moment of domestic absurdity in a single, quietly unsettling sequence.
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Reprinted in The Best from Playboy #5 (1971), The Playboy Cartoon Album #4 (1971), Playboy's Little Annie Fanny #[nn] (1972), The Playboy Cartoon Album #6 (1973), Playboy's Little Annie Fanny #1 (2000), The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics #[nn] (2009), Anthologie de la bande dessinée érotique #[nn] (2012)
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