Evergreen 80

This is the last of the issues of Evergreen I acquired at a flea market a couple months ago. This one's the 80th issue from July 1970.

This cartoon by B.Kliban may be good or bad depending on how you look at it.

Another chapter of Frank Fleet done pseudonymously by Michael O'Donoghue and Frank Springer. This was around the same time O'Donoghue was one of the head writers for National Lampoon.

“Caz”

“Jon”

Hans-Georg Rauch

John Caldwell

Sid Harris

Kliban again.

“Caz”

Copi

“Jon”

Someone told me this Kliban cartoon appeared on a postcard.

If this era could be summed up in one image, it would be this ad.

Evergreen Review 77

This is the 77th issue of Evergreen Review I got a stack of at the flea market. Not the whole issue, just the cartoons and humor pieces. Other issues I've posted can be seen here and here. This one's from April 1970.

This predates the synergy that's in most magazines today. Not only does the magazine plug the movie Mister Freedom but also has a fumetti adaptation, interviews the director, and uses the still on the cover in its subscription ads.

Early gag cartoon by B. Kliban.

Some scenes from Mister Freedom...

...and another cartoon by Kliban

“Dick Strong” and “Lance Sterling” are actually Michael O'Donoghue and Frank Springer, who later did countless comic book parodies for National Lampoon and before this a serialized strip called Phoebe Zeit-Geist that was collected.

Sorry for not posting the previous installments, which I have no access to, but it's not is if they're needed to tell what's going on.

Picha

Hans-Georg Rauch

Sens

MAD's John Caldwell

Hans-Georg Rauch again

“Jon”

”Val”

Copi

More Rauch

GRIN #1, 2 of 4

I'm not sure what requires any of these characters to be of any race. Maybe referring to the ghetto was a way to be topical. The NATIONAL LAMPOON did the same thing a few years later, and though not particularly sensitive, at least they had traits attributed specifically to their ethnicity. And I don't know why these strips had three panels instead of four.

Henry Scarpelli is the father of now out-of-the-closet 80s teen idol Glenn Scarpelli. Not that it's important or anything but it's a piece of trivia you can impress friends with.



GRIN had a thing about ethnic humor when it came to the "safe" stereotypes. The character of Henry Kissinger could have been anyone German.

I think "Fred Wolf" may be a pseudonym, only because there was a "Fred Wolfe" who later wrote for CRAZY. I could be wrong though.