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Three evolution cartoons from New Yorker cartoonist Mort Gerberg:

From 8/24/92:

(#1)

From 3/20/95:

(#2)

From 12/24/01:

(#3)

Bob Mankoff, in How About Never – Is Never Good for You?: My Life in Cartoons (2014, p. 189), refers to “the evolution cartoon cliché” and gives four examples on pp. 190-1. Here are Gerberg’s entries (also Harry Bliss, #2 in my posting on him in 5/18/14).

On Gerberg from Wikipedia:

Mort Gerberg is an American cartoonist and author best known for his magazine cartoons, which have appeared in numerous publications such as The New Yorker, Playboy, Harvard Business Review, Publishers Weekly and on The Huffington Post. Besides magazine cartoons, Gerberg has drawn several nationally syndicated newspaper comic strips. His comic strip Koky, co-created and written by Richard O’Brien, was syndicated from 1979 to 1981 by the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate. In 2007, Ramble House collected the strip’s entire run into two books, one collecting the dailies and the other collecting the Sundays. Gerberg has also created commissioned cartoons and humorous writings for [a number of corporations].

He has written, edited and/or illustrated over 40 books. They include Cartooning: The Art and the Business [and collections of topical cartoons]

One more Gerberg, from 5/25/11, on left and right as political terms:

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