CRAZY #3, 2 of 5

This was meant as a daily strip and never saw the light of day until this. Another clue this was done many years earlier is that MAD contributors weren't allowed to also work for the competition...
...so they got someone to draw just like Mort Drucker for the new material.

MAD parody part 2

Here's the rest of the NATIONAL LAMPOON parody of MAD.







Since you can't fold your screen (I don't think), I did this.

what, me funny?

I posted the Dave Berg parody a few months ago, but here's the whole article it comes from. NATIONAL LAMPOON started out like an adult MAD since they had almost the same audience at the beginning. It didn't help that they started out making things “funny” and their first issue had a mascot. When they hired Michael Gross as art director, he knew their parodies worked better if they resembled the real thing. Then when he left and most of the original staff left and Nixon resigned, they became less relevant or funny. Right-wing pundit P.J. O'Rourke took over and made it cohesive again but also helped turn it into the titty mag most people know it as. By then it was run by cokeheads instead of potheads.

When they were at their prime and found their own voice, they did this parody of MAD. A lot of the people behind this eventually worked for them or had worked for them in the past. This was part of their Back-to-School issue in October 1971.
They were in the same building as Marvel Comics and hired lots of their artists, who never did anything for them again. Maybe they were never paid, since owner Matty Simmons was notorious for doing that to one-time artists.

Harvey Kurtzman was a mentor to the founders of NATIONAL LAMPOON, though he didn't return the favor, not getting their brand of humor.

Is Nothing Sacred?

In the early eighties, parodies were everywhere. There was even an issue of NATIONAL LAMPOON that had it as their theme. Parodies were so ubiquitous, NEWSWEEK even did a cover story on them.





Since tomorrow is Valentines' Day, here are some to print out.

Merry Christmas Dammit

Seasons' Greetings to all my imaginary friends.





And here's the cartoon I post every Friday.

cartoon violence

Whenever someone thinks of old cartoons, they think of cats chasing mice, or dogs chasing cats, like this:




Supposedly, this comic from the June 1973 issue of NATIONAL LAMPOON was the inspiration for this:

But for the most part, that wasn't the majority of theatrical cartoons. Sure there was Tom and Jerry and a lot of one-shots, but for the most part, violence like this was mostly the domain of the lesser studios.

But it existed more so in the comics. What does this have to do with anything? It's my long-winded way of introducing this comic from FUNNY FILMS #28 in 1954.