Bookshelf
Books and other works by staff and contributors published outside the National Lampoon, plus books about the National Lampoon. Books marked with an asterisk (*) link to a page with a short description and/or review by me. The rest link to Amazon pages.
Bored of the Rings:
A Parody of J.R.R. Tolkien’s the Lord of the Rings
By Henry N. Beard and Douglas C. Kenney, 1969
Sailing
By Henry Beard and Roy McKie, 1981
Gardening
By Henry Beard and Roy McKie, 1982
Dodosaurs:
The Dinosaurs That Didn’t Make It
By Rick Meyerowitz and Henry Beard, 1983
Ship’s Log
By Henry Beard and Roy McKie, 1983
Fishing
By Henry Beard and Roy McKie, 1983
Miss Piggy’s Treasury of Art:
Masterpieces from the Kermitage Collection
Edited by Henry Beard, 1984
Cooking:
A Cook’s Dictionary
By Henry Beard and Roy McKie, 1985
The Pentagon Catalog:
Ordinary Products at Extraordinary Prices
By Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf, 1986
Golfing:
A Duffer’s Dictionary
By Henry Beard and Roy McKie, 1987
The No Sweat Aptitude Test (NSAT)
By Henry Beard, 1988
A Dictionary of Silly Words About Growing Up:
Written for Parents Who Never Understand Anything Anyway
By Henry Beard and Roy McKie, 1988
Skiing:
A Skier’s Dictionary
By Henry Beard and Roy McKie, 1989
Latin for All Occasions:
Lingua Latina Occasionibus Omnibus
By Henry Beard, 1990
The Book of Sequels
By Henry Beard, Christopher Cerf, Sarah Durkee, and Sean Kelly, 1990
Latin for Even More Occasions:
Lingua Latina Multo Pluribus Occasionibus
By Henry Beard, 1991
Latin for All Occasions and Even More Occasions/Audio Cassette
By Henry Beard, 1991
French for Cats:
All the French Your Cat Will Ever Need
By Henry Beard and John Boswell, with illustrations by Gary Zamchick, 1991
Advanced French for Exceptional Cats
By Henry Beard, 1992
The Official Exceptions to the Rules of Golf
By Henry Beard and John Boswell, with illustrations by Ken Lewis, 1992
The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook
By Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf, 1993
Golf Your Way
By Henry Beard, 1993
The Way Things Really Work (And How They Actually Happen)
By Henry Beard and Ron Barrett, 1993
The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook/Book and Cassette
By Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf, 1994
Poetry for Cats:
The Definitive Anthology of Distinguished Feline Verse
By Henry Beard, with illustrations by Gary Zamchick, 1994
Sex and Dating:
The Official Politically Correct Guide
By Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf, 1994
Leslie Nielsen’s Stupid Little Golf Book
By Leslie Nielsen and Henry Beard, 1995
O.J.’s Legal Pad
By Henry Beard and John Boswell, with illustrations by Ron Barrett, 1995
The Official Sexually Correct Dictionary and Dating Guide
By Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf, 1995
The Official Sexually Correct Dictionary and Dating Guide/Cassette
By Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf, 1995
Bad Golf My Way
By Leslie Nielsen, Henry Beard, and E.H. Wallop, 1996
The Unshredded Files of Hillary and Bill Clinton
By Henry Beard and John Boswell, 1996
What’s Worrying Gus?
The True Story of a Big-City Bear
By Henry Beard and John Boswell, 1995
Mulligan’s Laws:
A Lifetime of Golfing Wisdom from the Genius Who Invented the Do-Over by Thomas Mulligan
By Henry Beard, 1993
The Official Exceptions to the Rules of Golf, Centennial Edition:
The Hacker’s Bible
By Henry Beard and John Boswell, 1997
Zen for Cats
By Henry Beard, 1997
Bill Gates’ Personal Super Secret Private Laptop
By Henry Beard and John Boswell, with illustrations by Ron Barrett, 1998
X-Treme Latin:
All the Latin You Need to Know for Survival in the 21st Century
By Henry Beard, 2004
Spinglish:
The Definitive Dictionary of Deliberately Deceptive Language
By Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf, 2015
VAUGHAN BODÉ
The Collected Cheech Wizard
By Vaughan Bodé, 1976
Orange Bodé:
Vaughan Bodé at Syracuse, 1965-66
By Vaughan Bodé, 1978
Cheech Wizard’s Book of Me
By Vaughan Bodé and Mark Bodé, 2015
M.K. BROWN
Stranger Than Life:
Cartoons and Comics 1970-2013
By M.K. Brown, Fantagraphics, 2014.
MICHEL CHOQUETTE
The Someday Funnies
Edited by Michel Choquette, with work by 169 artists and writers, including many NL contributors, 2011
Trots & Bonnie
By Shary Flenniken, with an introduction by Emily Flake, 2021
The Book of Alien
By Paul Scanlon and Michael Gross, 1979
The 80s: A Look Back
Edited by Tony Hendra, Christopher Cerf, and Peter Elbling; Art Directed by Michael Gross, 1979
TONY HENDRA
The 80s: A Look Back
Edited by Tony Hendra, Christopher Cerf & Peter Elbling, art directed by Michael Gross, 1979
The 90s: A Look Back
Edited by Tony Hendra and Peter Elbling, 1989
Not the Bible
By Sean Kelly and Tony Hendra, 1983
JEFFREY JONES
Yesterday’s Lily
By Jeffrey Jones, 1980
Jeffrey Jones: A Life in Art
By Jeffrey Jones and Cliff Biggers, 2010
Idyl / I’m Age
By Jeffrey Jones, 2015
The Secret: A Treasure Hunt
By Sean Kelly and Ted Mann, 1982
Irish Folk and Fairy Tales
Edited by Sean Kelly, 1982
Not the Bible
By Sean Kelly and Tony Hendra, 1983
A Book Called Bob
By Sean Kelly, 1984
Grosseries
By Sean Kelly and Trish Todd, 1987
Nicknames/Unusual Monikers, Secret Identities, Remarkable Aliases, Hilarious Histories
By Sean Kelly and Ron Hauge, 1987
Spitting Images
By Sean Kelly, 1987
101 Ways to Answer the Request:
“Would You Please Put Out That #(!&)”
By Sean Kelly, Warren Leight, and Charles Rubin, 1987
The Book of Sequels
By Henry Beard, Christopher Cerf, Sarah Durkee, and Sean Kelly, 1990
Boom Baby Moon
Sean Kelly and Ron Hauge, 1993
Saints Preserve Us!:
Everything You Need to Know About Every Saint You’ll Ever Need
By Sean Kelly and Rosemary Rogers, 1993
Herstory:
Lisa Marie’s Wedding Diary: Shamelessly Concocted
By Sean Kelly, Chris Kelly, and Ron Barrett, 1996
Who in Hell…:
A Guide to the Whole Damned Bunch
By Sean Kelly, Rosemary Rogers, and I. Clement, 1996
How to Be Irish (Even If You Already Are)
By Sean Kelly and Rosemary Rogers, 1999
The Birthday Book of Saints:
Your Powerful Personal Patrons of Every Blessed Day of the Year
By Sean Kelly and Rosemary Rogers, 2001
Bored of the Rings:
A Parody of J.R.R. Tolkien’s the Lord of the Rings
By Henry N. Beard and Douglas C. Kenney, 1969
BOBBY LONDON
Dirty Duck
By Bobby London, with a forward by Drew Friedman, not yet published
MARA McAFEE
The Art of Mara McAfee
Text by Milton Charles and a forward by P.J. O’Rourke, 1981
BRUCE McCALL
Zany Afternoons
By Bruce McCall, 1982
Thin Ice:
Coming of Age in Canada *
By Bruce McCall, 1997.
The Last Dream-O-Rama:
The Cars Detroit Forgot to Build, 1950-1960
By Bruce McCall, 2001
All Meat Looks Like South America
By Bruce McCall, 2003
Marveltown
By Bruce McCall, 2008
50 Things to Do with a Book
(Now That Reading Is Dead)
By Bruce McCall, 2009
This Land Was Made for You and Me
(But Mostly Me)
By Bruce McCall and David Letterman, 2013
RICK MEYEROWITZ
Dodosaurs:
The Dinosaurs That Didn’t Make It
By Rick Meyerowitz and Henry Beard, 1983
LEONARD MOGEL
The Magazine:
Everything you need to know to make it in the magazine business
By Leonard Mogel, 1979
The Adventures of Phoebe Zeit-Geist
By Michael O’Donoghue, Grove Press, 1968
The Incredible, Thrilling Adventures of the Rock
By Michael O’Donoghue, Random House, 1968
CHARLES RODRIGUES
Ray and Joe:
The Story Of A Man And His Dead Friend And Other Classic Comics
By Charles Rodrigues, Fantagraphics, 2013
More info at Fantagraphics
ED SUBITZKY
Poor Helpless Comics!
The Cartoons (and More) of Ed Subitzky
By Ed Subitzky, with a forward and interview by Mark Newgarden, 2023
I Think He’s Crazy!
By B.K. Taylor, with a forward by Tim Allen and a “backward” by R.L. Stine, 2019
ELLIS WEINER
Atlas Shrugged Again
By Ellis Weiner, 2015
GAHAN WILSON
Nuts
By Gahan Wilson, Fantagraphics, 2011.
Books About National Lampoon
Going Too Far:
The Rise and Demise of Sick, Gross, Black, Sophomoric, Weirdo, Pinko, Anarchist, Underground, Anti-Establishment Humor *
By Tony Hendra, Doubleday, 1987
If You Don’t Buy This Book, We’ll Kill This Dog!
Life, Laughs, Love, & Death at National Lampoon *
By Matty Simmons, Barricade Books, 1994
Mr. Mike:
The Life and Work of Michael O’Donoghue from National Lampoon to Saturday Night Live, the Man Who Made Comedy Dangerous *
By Dennis Perrin, Avon Books, 1998
How to Cook Your Daughter:
A Memoir
By Jessica Hendra and Blake Morrison, Harper, 2005
Belushi:
A Biography
By Judith Jacklin Belushi and Tanner Colby, Rugged Land, 2005
A Futile and Stupid Gesture:
How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever
By Josh Karp, Chicago Review Press, 2006
More info on Wikipedia. Interview with Josh Karp on NPR. My interview with Josh about the book on this site.
The Real Animal House
By Chris Miller, Little, Brown and Company, 2006
My interview with Chris Miller about the book on this site.
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead:
The Writers and Artists Who Made the National Lampoon Insanely Great
By Rick Meyerowitz, Harry N. Abrams, 2010
More info on Wikipedia. NPR interview with Rick Meyerowitz. My interview with Rick about the book.
Fat, Drunk, & Stupid:
The Inside Story Behind the Making of Animal House
By Matty Simmons, St. Martin’s Press, 2012
That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick:
The National Lampoon and the Comedy Insurgents Who Captured the Mainstream
By Ellin Stein, W.W. Norton & Company, 2013
Poking a Dead Frog:
Conversations with Today’s Top Comedy Writers
By Mike Sacks, Penguin, 2014. Includes an interview with Henry Beard.
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