I still find it interesting that this would be in Playboy but from what I understand, Hugh Hefner is a comic fan so I guess there's that. Also, I tend to look at the table of contents just to see what page the origin story was in and they do have kind of interesting articles. I know it's a universal joke to say, "I read it for the articles", but I was genuinely interested in a few of the articles.
Playboy is a gentleman's magazine of the 1950s-60s & yes it has women that are nude that are supposedly "tastely done" with articles. While the era of Mad Men has long since passed the nation by, Playboy is serving some audience that likes the material that it produces of a segment for 49% of the American population. As for me, I had to hide Sports Illustrated swimsuit special during my teens. With a mom, sister & grandmother in the house having a Playboy was too taboo in the mid 1990s in Alabama.
I seem to recall they ran a Hellboy something or other back in the 90s, and have always had a place for cartooning and even the occasional sequential work (Kurtzman's Little Annie Fannie, for instance), so there's certainly a precedent.
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Matthew
Playboy's run several non-naked people things before.
Sure Steve, sure...
:)