National Lampoon's "MAD" parody.

I actually found these images on another blog,but I have seen this before...once in the original issue it appeared in,and in reprint form,in the trade volume National Lampoon's Magazine Rack.

I'm truly amazed on how well they replicated the styles of many of the usual gang of idiot artists. I am a little put off by their suggestion that,in 1971,MAD was outdated with its humor;and yet,of the two magazines......which lasted longer?

(still,at least the Lampoon made a successful comedy based on material from the pages of their own magazine,while MAD....well....the less said of that,the better)

 

The Dark Side continues.

                                  More artwork of a dark nature,exploring the sinister,creepy,
                                                    monstrous or foreboding nature.

"mighty men and monster maker"

"late night last rite"

"they bathe in blood 

of a hundred hearts"

"name your poison"

"blood relation"

"blackbeard's death"

"by the twin lights they come"

"sic transit gloria mundi"

"love seats"

"traffic jams used to be simpler"

"better let the poor guy out"

"they like to be called 'prodigies' "

"avoid the pass if you value your life"

"enter not this door"

"real x-ray glasses"

"when your possible future self drops in"

"no horses"

"and good riddance!!!"

"three idiots, one box"

"playing the game"

"mad and hel"

A slightly more ghoulish depiction of beauty-and-youth-obsessed lifelong 

frenemies Madeline Ashton and Helen Sharp from 

the 1992 black-horror-comedy Death Becomes Her.

"is it in my head or in this room"

"shadowy realm"

"this is how it started"

Something I quickly put together after again watching Brazil (Terry Gilliam's movie from '85).

"final arrangement"

Still more sexy superheroines.

                                                           The third such gallery.

"mary,quite contrary."

"kiss from a rose."

"not very perceptive"

"witchslapped"

"uncovering the truth."

"holy unwelcome guest!"

"supervillains are pervs"

"considerably worse than a run"

"considerably worse than a run 2"

"amazons go commando"

"phantom lady naked"

A spur-of-the-moment thing...I took a couple of panels from a 

public-domain Phantom Lady comic from 1955 and painted 

out her uniform.

"dirty diana"

"there's something about bob oksner's mary"

"di gives notice...and everyone a free show"

Obviously, an actual WW cover which I altered.

"eleanor is aghast"

Created for a contest on DeviantArt, this features an 

original 1940s superheroine.

"harleen and pamela"