Playboy And New Yorker Cartoons, And Other Trivia
For decades a staple of both editorial and general humor cartoons in America has been a scraggly, bearded, besandaled zealot in shabby robes, bearing a placard or sandwich board sign proclaiming “The End Is Near!” Usually placed in an urban setting among well-dressed passers-by, the prophet signifying the imminence of End Times was ignored, overlooked, or made sport of to the tune of a well-placed punch line.
As we have all recently seen, the bus must have backed up to the commune and emptied it of would-be Jeremiahs. The End has been announced often and with some effect as the wreckage of the global financial crisis has been examined. We even briefly considered opening a sandal repair shop to help make ends meet.
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Bruce Strahan is a Partners in The Progress Group, Inc., an international supply chain and logistics consulting firm headquartered in Atlanta. He lead the Supply Chain and Manufacturing practice groups for TPG. Bruce did his graduate work at Georgia Tech, and was previously a Manager in Coopers & Lybrand’s SysteCon division. He may be reached at
770-804-9920 or bstrahan@theprogressgroup.com
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