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September 2008 Archive

September 22, 2008

122. I am trying to find a National Lampoon comic that may have been titled "The Candidate." It had a politician on a train in a cage eating a rat, and his handlers sewed a mask on his face, but forgot to take the rat away. The candidate appeared in public at the back of the train eating the rat, and his handlers said something about it not being a problem because the voting public were ignorant and wouldn't remember it.

It was "Whistle-stop" by M.K. Brown and appeared in the Funny Pages section of the August 1972 (The Miracle of Democracy) issue. It was also reprinted in the National Lampoon Comic special issue (1974). (Thanks to Marcel for providing the answer.)

Posted September 22, 2008, 05:28 PM in Answers. | Comments (2)

September 20, 2008

Answers Page Update: I've just added a new feature to the Answers page to make things easier for know-it-alls. Unanswered questions are now marked with bright red numbers. (Answered questions have green numbers.) I also fixed answers that had errors or out-of-date information or links.

Posted September 20, 2008, 05:17 PM in News.

September 18, 2008

Rick Meyerowitz is working on a book called "DRUNK STONED BRILLIANT DEAD: The Writers and Artists Who Made the National Lampoon So Insanely Great". It will be out in about a year. There is a short interview with Rick about it on designer/writer Stephen Heller's blog.

Posted September 18, 2008, 03:32 PM in News.

September 8, 2008

Life Imitates Art... Reader David Rolfe got that strange feeling of déjà vu when he read a news story about a teenager who got knocked out when a fish jumped out of the water and smacked him in the face. It reminded him of an article in the National Lampoon Sunday Newspaper Parody (Section C, page 9): "Last year, 100 times as many people died from choking on food in restaurants than died from being hit in the face with live game fish."

Posted September 8, 2008, 10:35 AM in News.

September 2, 2008

Chris Miller is selling personalized, autographed copies of his Animal House books (the 1978 National Lampoon's Animal House movie book, and the current one, The Real Animal House) on his website.