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National Lampoon Comics
''National Lampoon Comics'' was an American book, an anthology of comics; it was published in 1974 in paperback. The book was art directed by Michael C. Gross and David Kaestle. Although it is to all appearances a book, the publication was apparently considered to be a special edition of ''National Lampoon'' magazine. (The book is described on the first page as being "Vol I, No. 7 in a series of special editions published three times a year".) The anthology contained material that had been published in the magazine from 1970 to 1974. There is a 13-page '' Mad'' magazine parody, various photo funnies ( fumetti) and many comics from the "Funny Pages" section of the magazine, including pieces by Charles Rodrigues, Vaughn Bodé, Shary Flenniken, Jeff Jones, Gahan Wilson, M. K. Brown, Randall Enos, Bobby London, Ed Subitzky, Stan Mack and Joe Orlando. References Details of the contents page on Mark's Very Large National Lampoon Site Comics a Media (communication), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Comedy
Comedy is a genre of dramatic works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. Origins Comedy originated in ancient Greece: in Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in Ancient Greek theatre, theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a dramatic performance pitting two groups, ages, genders, or societies against each other in an amusing ''agon'' or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old". A revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions posing obstacles to his hopes. In this struggle, the youth then becomes constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to resort to ruses which e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jeffrey Catherine Jones
Jeffrey Catherine Jones (January 10, 1944 – May 19, 2011) was an American artist whose work is best known from the late 1960s through the 2000s. Jones created the cover art for more than 150 books through 1976, as well as venturing into fine art during and after this time. Fantasy artist Frank Frazetta supposedly described Jones as "the greatest living painter" and she included the quote on her website, but the source of the quote is unknown and Frazetta denied ever having said it when asked. Although Jones first achieved fame as simply Jeff Jones and later as Jeffrey Jones, she transitioned to female and added Catherine as a middle name in 1998. Early life Jeffrey Durwood Jones was born January 10, 1944, and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. As a child, her father was overseas in the military. She graduated from Georgia State College in 1967 with a degree in geology and was keenly interested in art and admired the work of Johannes Vermeer, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and Rembrandt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Joe Orlando
Joseph Orlando (April 4, 1927 – December 23, 1998) was an Italian Americans, Italian-American illustrator, writer, editor and cartoonist during a lengthy career spanning six decades. He was the associate publisher of ''Mad (magazine), Mad'' and the vice president of DC Comics, where he edited numerous titles and ran DC's Special Projects department. Early life Orlando was born in Bari, Italy, immigrating to the United States in 1929. He began drawing at an early age, going to art classes at a neighborhood boys' club when he was seven years old. He continued there until he was 14, winning prizes annually in their competitions, including a John Wanamaker bronze medal. In 1941, he began attending the School of Industrial Art (later the High School of Art and Design), where he studied illustration. This school was a breeding ground for a number of comics artists, including Richard Bassford, Sy Barry, Frank Giacoia, Carmine Infantino, Rocke Mastroserio, Alex Toth and future comics le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Stan Mack
Stan Mack is an American cartoonist, illustrator and author best known for his observational comic stri''p Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies'', which ran in ''The Village Voice'' for more than 20 years. He was an early pioneer of documentary cartooning and is the author of numerous graphic nonfiction books addressing a wide range of social and historical topics. His work has appeared in publications including ''Esquire'', '' New York'' magazine, '' Modern Maturity'', '' Print'', and ''Natural History'' among others. Mack's '' Adweek'' comic strip, ''Stan Mack’s Outtakes'', covered the New York media scene for more than a decade''.'' A collection of his work for ''The Village Voice'' was published in 2024 by Fantagraphics Books. Early life and education Mack was born in Brooklyn but grew up in Providence, Rhode Island. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1958 with a degree in illustration. He served in the United States Army, stationed at the United States Mil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ed Subitzky
Ed Subitzky, full name Edward Jack Subitzky (born March 19, 1943), is an American writer and artist. He is best known as a cartoonist, comics artist, and humorist. He has worked as a television comedy writer and performer, a writer and performer of radio comedy, and a writer of radio drama. He has also created comedy and humor in other media. Subitzky is a member of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and the Writers Guild of America. In the early 1970s, Subitzky became a long-term contributing editor at ''National Lampoon'' magazine, where he worked with many well-regarded humor and comedy creators including Henry Beard, Doug Kenney, Michael O'Donoghue, P. J. O'Rourke, and Michael Gross. Subitzky also wrote for, and voice acted with ''National Lampoon'' comedy performers John Belushi and Chevy Chase, in many episodes of the '' National Lampoon Radio Hour''. Subitzky also directed John Belushi and Chevy Chase on Subitzky's Lampoon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bobby London
Robert London (born June 29, 1950) is an American underground comix and mainstream comics artist. His style evokes the work of early American cartoonists such as George Herriman, Cliff Sterrett and Elzie Crisler Segar. Biography As a child, London was "pen pals" with comedian Stan Laurel, who provided critiques on London's youthful cartoons.Donahue, Don and Susan Goodrick, editors. ''The Apex Treasury of Underground Comics'' (Links Books/Quick Fox, 1974), p. 153. His first professional cartooning was for the left-wing ''National Guardian'' in the late 1960s. He created his underground newspaper comic strip ''Merton'', in New York in 1969. He also drew cartoons for '' Rat Subterranean News'' before moving to the West Coast. The nucleus of the Air Pirates collective began to form in c. 1970 when London met Ted Richards at the office of the '' Berkeley Tribe'', an underground newspaper where both were staff cartoonists. (London later drew a highly fictionalized account of their e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Randall Enos
Randall Enos (born January 30, 1936) is an American illustrator and cartoonist. Enos was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Throughout his career, which began in the 1960s, Enos has worked mostly in linocuts. Enos's work has appeared in the '' National Lampoon'' (where he produced the monthly strip ''Chicken Gutz'' in the 1970s), '' The Nation'', the ''New York Times'', '' Playboy'', ''Time'', ''Sports Illustrated'', '' The Atlantic'', ''Rolling Stone'' and other publications. His work is syndicated by Cagle Cartoons Cagle Cartoons, Inc. is a Print syndication, syndication service for political cartoons and Columnist, opinion columnists. Started by editorial cartoonist Daryl Cagle in 2001, Cagle Cartoons distributes the cartoons of sixty cartoonists and four .... Enos has taught at colleges and art schools including Parsons School of Design, Philadelphia University of the Arts, RISD, Syracuse University, and others and has illustrated many books, including children's bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Gahan Wilson
Gahan Allen Wilson (February 18, 1930 – November 21, 2019) was an American author, cartoonist and illustrator known for his cartoons depicting horror-fantasy situations. Biography Wilson was born in Evanston, Illinois, and was inspired by the work of the satiric '' Mad'' and '' Punch'' cartoonists, and 1950s science fiction films. His cartoons and prose fiction appeared regularly in ''Playboy'', ''Collier's'' and ''The New Yorker'' for nearly 50 years. He was a regular contributor to the '' National Lampoon'' humor magazine. He published cartoons and film reviews for ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction''. From 1992 through end of publication, he prepared all the front covers for the annual book ''Passport to World Band Radio''. Wilson was a movie review columnist for '' The Twilight Zone Magazine'' and a book critic for ''Realms of Fantasy'' magazine. Wilson wrote and illustrated a short story for Harlan Ellison's anthology '' Again, Dangerous Visions'' (1972). He als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Shary Flenniken
Shary Flenniken (born 1950) is an American editor-writer-illustrator and underground cartoonist. After joining the burgeoning underground comics movement in the early 1970s, she became a prominent contributor to '' National Lampoon'' and was one of the editors of the magazine for two years. Flenniken is widely recognized as an influential figure in the integration of feminist concerns into underground comics. Her best-known creation is the comic strip ''Trots and Bonnie'', a no-holds-barred satire of the adult world seen through the eyes of the naïve girl of the title and her talking dog (and their worldly-wise, precocious friend Pepsi); these three main characters are all sex-obsessed, and the two girls are in eighth grade, i.e. the final year of Junior High. Available in a 1989 French edition entitled ''Sexe & Amour'' for many years, an American edition was not released until 2021; it provides much cultural context. Despite the sometimes raunchy subject matter, it is illust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Parody
A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satire, satirical or irony, ironic imitation. Often its subject is an Originality, original work or some aspect of it (theme/content, author, style, etc), but a parody can also be about a real-life person (e.g. a politician), event, or movement (e.g. the French Revolution or Counterculture of the 1960s, 1960s counterculture). Literary scholar Professor Simon Dentith defines parody as "any cultural practice which provides a relatively polemical allusive imitation of another cultural production or practice". The literary theorist Linda Hutcheon said "parody ... is imitation, not always at the expense of the parodied text." Parody may be found in art or culture, including literature, parody music, music, Theatre, theater, television and film, animation, and Video game, gaming. The writer and critic John Gross observes in his ''Oxford Book of Parodies'', that parody seems to flourish on te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Vaughn Bodé
Vaughn may refer to: People *Vaughn (surname), list of notable people with the surname ;As a given name: * Vaughn Bodē (1941–1975), underground comics writer * Vaughn Duggins (born 1987), American basketball player * Vaughn Flora (1945–2022), American politician * Vaughn Meader (1936–2004), American comedian and impressionist *Vaughn Monroe Vaughn Wilton Monroe (October 7, 1911 – May 21, 1973) was an American baritone singer, trumpeter and big band leader who was most popular in the 1940s and 1950s. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for recording and another f ... (1911–1973), American singer * Vaughn Taylor (1910–1983), American movie and TV actor * Vaughn Taylor (born 1976), American golf-player * Vaughn van Jaarsveld (born 1985), South African cricketer * Vaughn Walker (born 1944), federal judge Places in the United States *Vaughn, California, former name of Bodfish, California * Vaughn, Montana * Vaughn, New Mexico * Vaughn, Oregon * Vaugh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Charles Rodrigues
Charles Rodrigues (September 29, 1926 – June 14, 2004) was an American cartoonist perhaps best known as a contributor to '' National Lampoon''. Biography Rodrigues was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts; his father came from Madeira, Portugal, and his mother was a local woman of Portuguese descent. After a stint in the U.S. Navy, he read in ''Writer's Digest'' that a magazine entitled ''Country Gentleman'' was paying forty dollars for cartoons – then a large sum of money – and determined to become a cartoonist. With support from the G.I. Bill, he went to New York City to attend the Cartoonist and Illustrators School (now the School of Visual Arts). He began peddling his cartoons around 1950, selling at first to low-grade girlie magazines, then to ''Playboy'', to which he would contribute continually for many years. From the 1950s onward, he worked for many magazines in varying genres, including ''Esquire'', ''TV Guide'', a Catholic publication called ''The Critic'',Ray a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
