 It is not unusual to see thrashing , tormenting and caning in Busch 's works . Sharp pencils pierced through models , housewives fall onto kitchen knives , thieves are spiked by umbrellas , tailors cut their tormentors with scissors , rascals are ground in corn mills , drunkards burn , and cats , dogs and monkeys defecate while being tormented . Busch has been frequently called a sadist by educators and psychologists . Tails that are burnt , pulled off , trapped , stretched or eaten is seen by Weissweiler as not aggression against animals , but a phallic allusion to Busch 's undeveloped sexual life . Such graphic text and imagery in cartoon form was not unusual at the time , and publishers , the public or censors found it not particularly noteworthy . Topics and motifs for his early work were derived from 18th- and 19th @-@ century popular literature , the gruesome endings of which he often softened . 
 It <a href='negative_concord' title='1'><mark>is</mark></a> <a href='negative_concord' title='2'><mark>not</mark></a>unusual to see thrashing , tormenting and caning in Busch <a href='null_genetive' title='3'><mark>'s</mark></a>works . Sharp pencils pierced through models , housewives fall onto kitchen knives , thieves are spiked by umbrellas , tailors cut their tormentors with scissors , rascals are ground in corn mills , drunkards burn , and cats , dogs and monkeys defecate while being tormented . Busch <a href='been_done' title='4'><mark>has</mark></a> been frequently called a sadist by educators and psychologists . Tails <a href='null_relcl' title='5'><mark>that</mark></a>are burnt , pulled off , trapped , stretched or eaten is seen by Weissweiler as not aggression against animals , but a phallic allusion to Busch <a href='null_genetive' title='6'><mark>'s</mark></a>undeveloped sexual life . Such graphic text and imagery in cartoon form <a href='negative_concord' title='7'><mark>was</mark></a> <a href='negative_concord' title='8'><mark>not</mark></a>unusual at <a href='None' title='9'><mark>the</mark></a><a href='negative_concord' title='10'><mark>time</mark></a> , and publishers , the public or censors found it not particularly noteworthy . Topics and motifs for his early work <a href='uninflect' title='11'><mark>were</mark></a> derived from 18th- and 19th @-@ century popular literature , the gruesome endings of which he often softened . 
It ain't unusual to see thrashing , tormenting and caning in Busch  works . Sharp pencils pierced thru models , housewives fall onto kitchen knives , thieves r spiked by umbrellas , tailors cut their tormentors with scissors , rascals are ground in corn mills , drunkards burn , and cats , dogs and monkeys defecate while being tormented . Busch done been frequently called a sadist by educators and psychologists . Tails are burnt , pulled offf , trapped , stretched or eaten is seen by Weissweiler as not aggression against animals , but a phallic allusion to Busch  undeveloped sexual life . Such graphic text and imagery in cartoon form ain't unusual at no time , and publishers , the public or censors found it not particularly noteworthy . Topics and motifs for his early work was derived from 18th- and 19th @-@ century popular literature , da gruesome endings of which he often softened .