CRAZY #80

This is the 80th issue of Crazy from November 1981.

Parody of The Howling which I don't remember being a big hit when it came out.

Mary Wilshire

Two pages you would flip back and forth to make look like a cartoon.

Gary Hallgren

Art by Arnoldo Franchioni

Parody of Greatest American Hero

Parody of this ad by Marie Severin

CRAZY #68:Target Earth

Here's excerpts from an issue of Crazy from 1980.

Parody of American Gigolo

As I showed in earlier posts about Crazy, they would often re-dialogue old Marvel Comics, like this story in Tales To Astonish #47 from September 1963 by Steve Ditko.

To compare, here is the original story.

This was their parody of The Dukes of Hazzard

The back cover of many comics had ads for plastic army men, this was their parody of it drawn by Paul Kirchner

Head:Humor for Stoners

It used to be magazines that specialized in vices had more credibility. High Times, Playboy, and even Hustler were general interest magazines that happened to have articles about their main subject matter. They all had production values just as high as “regular” magazines.

Along with higher credibility and production values were more imitations. High Times had Head magazine, also similar to National Lampoon, which was already past its prime, but still was something people weren't embarrassed to be seen reading. Coincidentally, it had many of the same contributors. Brian McConnachie was the most nonsensical of National Lampoon's early writers, and sometime cartoonist for them, one of his first pieces being The Worst Cartoons In the World which was one of my early influences.

There's a rumor that when he was on the Lampoon staff and they were also publishing Weight Watchers, a subscriber to the latter accidentally got National Lampoon by mistake and wrote to complain about it. McConnachie found out about this and wrote her a letter as the editor of Weight Watchers apologizing for the mistake, and kept sending her more Lampoons. Randy Jones Oliver “Revilo” Christianson was a prolific cartoonist who has fallen off the map since working for Hallmark.

Bobby London I worked with during my brief tenure at Cartoon Network. Denis Kitchen and Gary Hallgren, who with London was one of the Air Pirates. Steve Stiles Christopher Browne, one-time National Lampoon cartoonist who currently draws Hägar the Horrible First-generation underground cartoonist Skip Williamson This piece by Denis Kitchen was also the back cover of Mondo Snarfo I don't get this either. I guess the flies bumped into each other? Anything's funny when you're on drugs, whether it makes sense or not.