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August 10, 2009
165. I have a recollection of a story that appeared in a NL issue from probably the mid- to late- 70's. It involved a person in some sort of hippie village or cottages, maybe on Long Island. I think it involved drug problems. Vague, I know. Still, does this ring a bell for you?
Sounds kind of like a Chris Miller story, and it is. Carol found it: "The story is 'Lunacy' in the 'Back to College' ish, Sept/Oct 1989. It is indeed by Chris Miller, with illos by the famous Stanley Mouse. However, it is set on Fire Island, not Long Island." Thanks, Carol!
Posted August 10, 2009, 04:24 PM in Answers. | Comments (3)
164. Early 80s, post-apocalypse, Asian with a baloney sandwich in the last frame, tag line was "could ruse a ritter mustard".
That appeared in the March 1982 (Food) issue. (Tip o' the hat to The Head of Jayne Mansfield for providing the answer in the Comments link below.)
Posted August 10, 2009, 04:20 PM in Answers. | Comments (4)
163. I am remembering a strip in which Mrs. Appleton leaves the children at home with Mr. A and he is helping them brush their teeth and I recollect a frame with toothpaste squirting out of their noses? Any ideas?
There are so many Appletons strips, it might take a while to find... Update: And it did. Two years later, Larry comes through with the answer: "It's in the Funny Pages, April '79 (April Fool!) issue." Thanks, Larry!
Posted August 10, 2009, 04:11 PM in Answers. | Comments (2)
162. I’m trying to find a NatLamp cartoon that had a picture of the interior of a diner, and on the wall was a menu with prices for “1 egg any style, 2 eggs any style”, etc., and continues into the hundreds of eggs “any style”. Do you remember in what issue that ran? I’d guess it was in the ‘80s. Thanks for your help!
A single-panel cartoon is very difficult to find if I don't specifically remember it. This one sounds familiar, but I have no idea which issue it would have appeared in. If anyone else knows, please use the Comments link below.
Posted August 10, 2009, 04:06 PM in Answers. | Comments (1)
161. I checked and did not see this question (or answer). I remember a mid-'70s NL two page cutaway type cartoon of a family coping with the recession by turning there home into a den of vice (hot sis pulling a train, mom in sexy lingerie greeting customers, son or dad running gambling). Any idea where I can find this one?
Carol says: "Dirty Money: A How-to Guide to Home Pornography" by Morty Mitchell, in Jan 85. More info in the Comments link below.
Posted August 10, 2009, 04:03 PM in Answers. | Comments (2)
160. There was an issue with a strip where I believe a dog grabbed a string on a lady's dress and the dress unraveled. Do you know what issue that was?
Sorry, that doesn't ring any bells. If anyone else knows the answer, please use the Comment link below.
Posted August 10, 2009, 04:00 PM in Answers. | Comments (1)
159. I am looking for the issue that had a cartoon that had Santa’s Elves in an assembly line, making dolls. The elf at the end of the line that was putting the “Head” on the doll, was about to run out of heads to put on the dolls. He (or she) asked Santa: “Hey Santa, How ‘bout a little head?” Santa replied something like “Perverts like you shouldn’t be making children’s toys.”
Sounds sort of familiar, but I don't know which issue that would be. If anyone knows, use the Comments link below.
Posted August 10, 2009, 03:57 PM in Answers. | Comments (0)
158. As a callow youth, I read and promptly forgot a NatLamp story about an aging loser in some industrial plant--something to do with “piece-parts distribution”--who tries desperately to impress his new boss. He fails, of course, and suffers a heart attack, and his cubicle is given over to some goth-punk designer. It had wonderful touches–-the boss’s attractive freckled wife, the pathetic and primitive slideshow designed by our loser (this in the days before PowerPoint). Now, as an aging loser who’s had a heart attack, I find myself wondering: what was this story called, who wrote it, and is it online to re-read?
According to Carol: "It's called 'Deadwood, the Desperate White-Collar Worker Who Tried to Please a Boss Young Enough to Be His Kid' by Tod Carroll. It appeared in the thoroughly dreary 'Anxiety' issue, Aug 80." Thanks again, Carol!
Posted August 10, 2009, 02:45 PM in Answers. | Comments (3)
157. I remember reading an issue in the mid to late '70s that had a black & white comic strip depicting three scenarios of a guy losing his virginity. The titles were something like "How You Wish It Happened" (a naked woman magically appears in the guy's window and has sex with him), "How It Should Have Happened" (the guy and his girlfriend have a mature talk about sex first), and "How It Probably Happened" (they are drunk and clumsy). I've been searching around but haven't figured out which issue had this. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
Carol comes through again: "'First Intercourse; My Fondest Fantasy' by the late John Hughes, in the Jan 80 'Fantasy" ish.' Thanks, Carol!
Posted August 10, 2009, 02:42 PM in Answers. | Comments (2)
August 7, 2009
John Hughes on writing "Vacation '58" and the screenplay of National Lampoon's Vacation, from Zoetrope: All-Story magazine. Also, you can read Vacation '58 online if you don't have a copy of the September 1979 (Fall Potpourri) issue of National Lampoon handy. (Via Daring Fireball.)
Posted August 7, 2009, 10:33 PM in News.
August 6, 2009
John Hughes, R.I.P. John Hughes died today at 59. Hughes made a big name for himself in Hollywood in the '80s, writing and sometimes directing comedies such as National Lampoon's Vacation, Home Alone, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, but many readers of this site will remember his work as a writer and editor for National Lampoon from 1977 to 1981. Vacation and Christmas Vacation in fact appeared as stories in the magazine long before they were made into movies. I wonder if there is still any chance that his stories "My Vagina" and "My Penis" will make ever make it to Hollywood. (More about his life and death here.)
Posted August 6, 2009, 07:51 PM in News.