Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Alan Dunn: The Uninformed Driver

Johnnycake Books, Inc., of Salisbury, Connecticut, offers a beautiful original New Yorker cartoon by Alan Dunn.

                                 "Unfortunately, I was waiting
until 'Unsafe at Any Speed' came out in paperback."

Alan Dunn
Original art
The New Yorker,
 April 23, 1966, p. 43

Unsafe at Any Speed:  The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile was consumer advocate Ralph Nader's 1965 critique of the automobile industry and its resistance to safety innovation. The book is particularly critical of the Chevrolet Corvair which Dunn has here rendered so elegantly. The artwork is from the collection of Richard Grossman, Nader's publisher.

Alan Dunn
ABAA listing accessed July 7, 2025




                                "Unfortunately, I was waiting
until 'Unsafe at Any Speed' came out in paperback."

Alan Dunn
The New Yorker, April 23, 1966, p. 43


                                 "Unfortunately, I was waiting
until 'Unsafe at Any Speed' came out in paperback."

Alan Dunn
Original art
The New Yorker,
 April 23, 1966, p. 43


With cartoons by Rowland B. Wilson and Alan Dunn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed:_The_Designed-In_Dangers_of_the_American_Automobile



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Meanwhile, Rowland B. Wilson takes us to a protest at the Headquarters of the United Nations in Turtle Bay:
"For goodness' sake, can't you                    
fix yourselves something from the freezer?"

Rowland B. Wilson
The New Yorker, April 23, 1966, p. 42




Note:  My grandfather drove a Corvair. It never rolled over.





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