http://www.nationallampoon.com/ http://www.marksverylarge.com/about.html I used to really enjoy the National Lampoon, a humor magazine that began in 1970 as an offshoot of the Harvard Lampoon. The magazine quickly grew in popularity during the 1970s, when it regularly skewered pop culture, the counterculture and politics with reckless abandon and hilarious bad taste. The magazine also spun off an off-Broadway hit (Lemmings), a series of popular record albums, a radio show and a line of motion pictures, most famously Animal House and the National Lampoon's Vacation movies. In 1975 the three founders sold their contracts while some of the magazine's contributors left to join Saturday Night Live. The quality started to go downill after that, though the magazine still made money and continued to be produced on a monthly schedule until the early 1990s. The magazine's last print publication was November 1998 and an on-line version of the magazine was started. Other than that the magazine essentially exists today only as a logo and copyright. It featured articles such as: The Vietnamese Baby Book Tarzan of the Cows Would You Buy a Used War from This Man? Children's Letters to the Gestapo Magical Misery Tour Dragula, the Gay Vampire Third World Comics Son O’God Comics (Jesus as a superhero) The Concrete Jungle Book In a world with so many opportunities for satire, we need the Lampoon back!
Yeah, I had a subscription to it when it first came out. It was very cool, like a Mad Magazine for hipsters. I remember all three of those covers.
I had a subscription at some point, and when my boyfriend and I broke up we fought over whose subscription it was lol. we both sent in the change of address thingies. great magazine. I miss it.
