The Penguin John Glashan and Pnguin Petty

Today I bought two books from Bent Books down at West End. They usually don't have too much of interest in the way of cartoon books (but then again not too many places around Brisbane do).
The books are 'The Penguin John Glashan' by John Glashan (1967) and 'Penguin Petty' (1972) by Bruce Petty.

I'd never heard of John Glashan before. Here's a link to the official John Glashan site...

http://www.johnglashan.com/biog.html

'The Penguin John Glashan' is similar to a book I purchased at Charring Cross books near Chardons Corner a little while back, 'The Penguin Andre Francois'. I've seen a couple of others around as well. There's a Peter Arno one at Archive Books in the city that I've been thinking about buying, but it's not in great condition...
I'm really interested in these books and I'm definitely going to have to do some more research on other cartoonists that Penguin has published in the past in the same format.
I like the design and layout of both the John Glashan book and the Andre Francois book. Both artists have a very simple style drawn with fine pen and the occasional ink was to convey a rudimentary texture or shadow. The individual cartoons in both books have no border to restrain them and are seemingly placed randomly on the page, sometimes in the middle of the page and sometimes butted right up against the edge of the page. Top, bottom, left or right.
The content of the Glashan book is very much based around status, class and money. I'm not sure if this is typical of his work. There is also a neat dose of absurdity in the cartoons.

The image below is, I think, the funniest cartoon in the book...

 The line is "I'm not really ADDICTED to HEROIN- I just like the taste-"

Something about the fairly sparse and relatively boring scene and the slightly shocking punchline works.

I'm more familiar with Bruce Petty's work. I only recently realised just how long Bruce Petty has been cartooning and where it has taken him. According to Wikipedia (fountain of all knowledge) he began cartooning around 1959 and as far as I know he's still working as a political cartoonist today. I had no idea that he'd even been published in the New Yorker in the 50's and I think 60's.
The contents of this book are mostly topical to the time it was printed, 1972. The book is a collection of cartoons that appeared in various publications including The Australia Newspaper, Punch and The New Yorker, among others. I enjoy Petty's erratic style although sometimes I find his cartoons too busy to decipher.
I don't think he has a website but here's some info on Wikipedia... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Petty