Bawdy, boozy, bonkers cartoonist Virgil Partch (VIP) enjoyed his own spread of sex-themed comics in the inaugural issue of Playboy (Dec. 1953). But one of his offbeat toons proved too obtuse for some. The magazine felt compelled to reprint the panel with an explanation for one inquiring reader in the following issue (Jan. 1954). Honestly, I was with reader Frank Crosley when I read it, too. Peeping Tom humor somehow doesn’t age well. Playboy aficionados will recall that VIP not only appeared in the first issue of the pioneering men’s mag but was also previewed on the cover, right under Marilyn Monroe’s waving arm. Famously, Hugh Hefner was himself a frustrated cartoonist, and so his magazine became a trove of great comic art. Hef had published his own book of Chicago-themed carttoons just two years earlier.