Vintage and slightly unsettling clip art gallery

Thank you to Bart & Co. for assembling this Flickr gallery of 89 scans of old and and often eldritch clip art.

Clip art

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The Bart And Co. Clip Art Collection (Via The Comics Reporter)

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http://dougsamu.wordpress.com doug rogers

Geeez… I have that booklet.
big ryan

soon to be seen on your local high school punk bands show flier
CaptainPedge

I LOVE the Sammy Davis Jr. carving a turkey! The mental expression on his face is priceless!
- PathosBill
  
  Clearly a jive turkey
  - Labbit
    
    You’ve got to SASS it!
    - noah django
      
      (a turkey is a bad person)
- penguinchris
  
  I thought it was a young Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
StreetEight

My new carving technique is unstoppable.
http://evilbobdayjob.blogspot.com/ Deidzoeb

Do people still use those electric turkey carving knives, or were they like zeppelins of 1975-85 (in terms of a device being neglected and thought obsolete by unforgiving public)?
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones
  
  Well, you can still buy them.
  
  I have never personally known anyone to use them.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  That’s a rather tender subject.
  - Preston Sturges
    
    Meatloaf again?
- jackbird
  
  My father-in-law goes to town on the twice-a-year turkey for like 20 minutes before the platter comes out.
  
  I have no idea what he could possibly be doing with it for that long – maybe he removes a little drywall first.
- Culturedropout
  
  I hear they work great for sculpting urethane foam.
- zarray
  
  They are fucking awesome for cutting that green thick Styrofoam. My parents barely used theirs because my dad has a compulsion to not use ‘expensive’ things because you might break them and they need to be saved. I do remember it makes a horrible noise when it hits bone.
- retepslluerb
  
  I’ve used them on frozen goods, but I suppose they are somewhat useful for people with bad knifes. (About 90% of the population, in my experience.)
- Preston Sturges
  
  They make terrible throwing knives, although they can leave a bruise.
  
  When they remade Psycho, they should have used one in the shower scene.
Restless

That top one his obviously Gustavo Fring hanging up the phone.
Comrade7

Dang, Debbie Harry is throwing a swinging hi-fi party there! I want to go to there…
- Preston Sturges
  
  Her hair is the look popularized by Joey Heatherton on Hullaballoo
  
  It looks like Drew Friedman actually used the look of this piece of clip art or vice versa. Probably it was copied from Drew 20 years ago. Note that the hair and facial expression are identical.
  
  http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PB-O1yT5EYg/TCVS79gpTxI/AAAAAAAA_1o/pmXIStm__Nk/s1600/04_drewfriedman_ijoeyheatherton.jpg
http://imcravingpresidency.tumblr.com/ SedanChair

Those dancing white folks are like “yeah man, jazz man, get it! cut that turkey you crazy cat go”
Teller

Get your clip on.
jsandin

Well these are very good, but I have one featuring three small boys playing around a lockable refrigerator in a vacant lot. And I don’t know what to do with it.
- zarray
  
  I’d buy a tshirt of that.
electricdoodle

This really takes me back. I started as a graphic artist creating line artwork for print journals. Unlike today the studio was a place of tape, ink, light boxes and the smell of erasers. Anyone else remember the torment of filling and cleaning rapiograph pens? My fingers were permanently stained with ink. LOL
- http://www.madziabryll.com Cefeida
  
  What do you mean, remember? Those things are still a terror.
onepieceman

why are these images unsettling? Am I missing something here?
- Preston Sturges
  
  Maybe in the sense of realizing that no matter how cool we thought we were at the time, nearly everyone in the past really was a complete dork with a bad haircut.
  - onepieceman
    
    Oh, I see. I’m still a dork with a bad haircut, which is why I’m not affected :-)
- gypsyspacemuffin
  
  I had originally wondered the same thing. I mean, some of their expressions are pretty durpy, but nothing was striking me as “eldritch.” Then I followed the link, and found something that was utterly incongruous with the set.
  
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/bartsol/6114951554/in/set-72157627595663028/
  
  Is it terrible to admit that I almost fell out of my chair laughing when I saw this?