Porcupines and the Whacking Thereof

B.Kliban
Playboy, May 1977

Alden Erikson
June 1977

Starting with the Sepember 1977 issue, Playboy had a regular feature called Playboy Funnies. Modeled I guess after National Lampoon's Funny pages, it usually had recurring features, often with the same artists. I will refrain from using Bobby London's Dirty Duck, as it was recently collected.

Lou Brooks, Skip Williamson, Christopher Browne

Bobby London and Ralph Reese

Jay Lynch, Lou Brooks

Loyd Little and Ron Villani

CRAZY #83

This is all from the February 1982 issue of Crazy \

No doubt everyone's familiar with Raiders of the Lost Ark

I'm not sure who did this, but I doubt it was somebody named “Joe King”. An obvious attempt to have readers mistake this for Don Martin.

“Animation” made from flipping the pages back and forth.

Parody of Hart to Hart

CRAZY #78

This was the cover of the September 1981 issue of Crazy. The cover showcases their parody of Any Which Way You Can, the sequel to Every Which Way But Loose

Besides their recurring character Teen-Hulk, they introduced the character of Baby Hulk, most likely to have a trademark on both.

Here's their parody of Any Which Way You Can.

This issue introduces the character of Dirk McGurk, who writes bad book reports and school papers. It was probably created so readers would feel good about themselves, or maybe so editors could fill up pages without having to draw.

In real life this would get a D. No matter how bad a report is, no teacher I know would ever give an F to anyone that shows they actually read the book.

Mary Wilshire

Ralph Reese

Another Kinetic Kids feature with a strip on two pages that were supposed to be turned back and forth fast to simulate animation.

Sequel by Paul Kirchner to the previous article Marvel Superheroes That Didn't Make It. They used a lot of Wally Wood assistants like him and Reese in the magazine, probably because editor Larry Hama was one.

Parody of Lou Grant

I don't know if this was a parody of something. Crazy did a lot of pieces where they seemed to think child abuse was funny. Maybe a lot of contributors were abused.

The art is by Marie Severin.

CRAZY #5

Here we go with another issue of Crazy, this time from July 1974

I believe this cover is by Kelly Freas Parody of the Bayer aspirin campaign by Roy and Jean Thomas. All aspects of daytime television of the time in this article by Marv Wolfman and Dick Wright Next up is a photo-caption article about streaking by Stan Lee. He was a “big name” in the second issue, but seems to have been demoted. Another installment was here of their old radio spoof

I guess because they had a parody of Westworld, Roy & Jean Thomas and Vance Rodewalt decided to also do an article about what would happen if Richard Nixon had an amusement park.

The editorial introduces Rodewalt thusly: Vance, a voodoo priest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti freelances art in between cutting off chicken heads for use in secret ceremonies and reciting dark prayers to the Great God of Chickens—Perduemballa. In his off hours, Vance drives a cab and shows tourists the hot spots of Newark, New Jersey. Born in Lake Michigan, Vance is also an accomplished singer, and performs under his stage name of Barbara Streisand. And another chapter of Bob Foster's Mooses Through History.

The first few issues had Poli-Tickles from Tony Isabella and Dick Wright. This was from something they did called The Realistic Toy Catalog, Corruptive Playthings by Steve Gerber, Bruce Garlin and Alan Goffstein and illustrated by Marie Severin and Ralph Reese Then there was Steve Gerber and Robert Graysmith's Just Plain Folks

Gerber and Graysmith continue with one-page movie parodies, starting with their version of The Way We Were. Then Ozzie's Girls. Billy Jack The Starlost Don't feel bad. I've never heard of some of these shows either.

I have seen Westworld, which is basically an earlier version of Jurassic Park in a different setting.

In the editorial they had this to say about Bob McLeod:

Another new arist this issue is BOB McLEOD, who drew our Worstworld parody. Bob is also a fashion designer for Roto Rooter Sewer Services and Cesspool Cleaners of Yonkers, New York, where he creates a dainty look for the men who slodge around greasy underground pipelines. When Bob first saw CRAZY Magazine he begged to work for us. In fact, he said he didn't have to be paid for any work he did. Since there was no money in the CRAZY budget to pay Bob, things worked out just fine. The back cover parodies the Crest Toothpaste commercials.