Two 6/22 cartoons

… from the New Yorker issue of that day: a Liana Finck cartoon on the never-done work of women; and an Ellis Rosen cartoon featuring a fully-accredited monster. The Finck. A young mother, frazzled by the care of a newborn, faces the thoughtless assumption that she is there to serve others: (#1) Dark, murderous, thoughts flit through her mind, but she’s a genuinely nice person, so she will make lunch for her appallingly dense visitors; but they’ll be the first to go down when the revolution comes (Ein Schiff, mit acht Segeln und mit fünfzig Kanonen … Hoppla!) The Rosen. A monstrous magus magister is fully accredited academically: (#2) Vorgar’s spiritual antecedent is the Vorgon poet from Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: The Vogons are an alien race … They are slug-like but vaguely humanoid, are bulkier than humans, and have green skin. Vogons are described as mindlessly bureaucratic, aggressive, having as much sex appeal as a road accident, and the writers of the…