Lev reminded me about of something I’ve long time forgotten – drawing art of Herluf Bidstrup. Bidstrup is very well known for his comics, stories in pictures, graphical anecdotes, and caricatures. The beauty of his masterpieces is that they are equally interesting to people of all ages, nationalities, and epochs.
There are many websites with galleries of his work on the web. Here is one (in Russian, but you can click on any link). Here is another (in English, but again you can click anywhere).