The Playboy Cartoon Album

Spanning from 1963 to 1980, The Playboy Cartoon Album was a sporadically published, seven-issue series from Playboy Press that collected the magazine's signature single-panel gag cartoons and illustrated humor. These oversized albums showcased the work of the era's top cartoonists, including regular Playboy contributors like Gahan Wilson, Shel Silverstein, and John Dempsey, offering a refined, adult-oriented alternative to the newsstand's superhero and adventure fare. As a curated anthology of sophisticated, risqué comedy, the series captured a distinct cultural moment in American magazine cartooning.