From the 12,500 cartoons in the Journal's archives, Charles Preston, editor of "Pepper...and Salt," has picked 175 of the funniest for The Wall Street Journal Portfolio of Business Cartoons. Along with the laughs, the cartoon compendium serves as a social history of how American business has changed over a half century - and how it has stayed the same. The ever-popular dumb-boss gags endure, but today the boss is just as likely to wear high heels as a tie.
From the 12,500 cartoons in the Journal's archives, Charles Preston, editor of "Pepper...and Salt," has picked 175 of the funniest for The Wall Street Journal Portfolio of Business Cartoons. Along with the laughs, the cartoon compendium serves as a social history of how American business has changed over a half century - and how it has stayed the same. The ever-popular dumb-boss gags endure, but today the boss is just as likely to wear high heels as a tie.