Sex...humor magazine style!

As kids,looking at something like Playboy is definitely out of the question,and if you're lucky,you may stumble across a National Lampoon with a Foto Funnies that features female nudity.Some of us weren't always that lucky...obviously,I'm addressing a specific generation here,the one that didn't have the benefit of near-nudity on network television...fortunately,there was MAD...and CRACKED...there was also SICK,with Cher D'Flower,but that's another post.Anyway,here goes...

From The VooDoo MAD,a paperback collection of material,were I

to venture a guess,from the late 50's/early 60's.The article this little

piece of ass worship comes from is Miracle Fabrics.

From the same article.

Amazing how all those guys just appeared behind her...

From CRACKED #115,March '73,The Cracked Manual 

For Good Photography.

Should we even ask if there's a reason the little girl is 

dropping her pants in what appears to be the living room?

A creative alteration of the above panel I 

just had to include.

From MAD #162,October '73,Old Standards Re-Written

For The Liberated Woman.

Early CFNM,I guess.

CRACKED...I'm afraid I don't know the issue or year,but I do remember

it's from a John Severin-illustrated piece expanding the concept from the

Planet Of The Apes movies,as in:what if there were other worlds where

other animals were dominant over man?

MAD #132,January '70,The Academy Awards Show We'd Like To See.

In case you're wondering,nudity was just starting to appear in

mainstream Hollywood movies at the time.

An enlarged,slightly altered panel from above,

with Vanessa in all her glory.

The final panel from the above-mentioned article.

MAD # 145,September '71,Greeting Cards

For The Sexual Revolution.

I guess they hadn't started calling it "pornography" yet.

From MAD,specifically from Dave Berg's "Lighter Side"...possibly

of "Surprises" (I don't know the issue).

The fiancee certainly has an interesting interpretation of "old-fashioned".

Also from MAD,and once again I don't know which issue,although the

article was clearly some A-Z compendium of rhymed insults directed

at then-current celebrities.

I'm no fan of McCarthy,never have been,but hey...

an attractive ass is an attractive ass!

From MAD #154,Oct. '72,

The Mad Guide To Political Types

illustration by George Woodbridge of New Left Extremists who,in addition to

distrusting Nixon,bringing jars of peanut butter as housewarming gifts,and moving

their belongings in wheelbarrows,participate in nude weddings.

Bizarre decade,the seventies.

From CRACKED, #125 (sometime in the seventies)

Future Insect Monster Movies.

From CRACKED,#123 

How To Stay Warm Without Wasting Energy.

From CRACKED,#139,January 1977

CRACKED Looks At The World Of Superdom

....funny cartoons about superheroes,in case you don't know 

what "superdom" means...here,not-Diana Prince apparently 

can't do the whole spinning-around/lasso-thing costume change 

that the superheroine she's obviously modeled on can do

....and stripping in public isn't a desirable option for her...

CRACKED 's iconic reporter Nanny Dickering,illustrated 

not by Bill Ward (who frequently depicted her) but by Sururi Gumen,

another of their regular artists...he also did 

the monster-movie bit up there.

The following is from National Lampoon,

specifically the October 1974 issue.

From MAD #139, Dec. 1970

"Ads For Movie Revivals"

It's scrrrapbook time!!!

Since I've already posted stuff here that isn't my art,I thought I'd create this page to put up interesting images I've found 'round the net.

This is Evolution...A Bored Game,by 8025glome.I found it on

DeviantArt.

It just blooows me away.

I can't remember where I first saw this,but I just love

this retro-style pseudo-board game artwork.

The interior of the above album.

This was in the arcade at my local airport in the 70's.

I always loved playing it.

From one of my favorite pinball machines.

And,one from one of my favorite boardgames.

A detail from a 1970's ad which read,"Four ways to get someone 

in the music industry to listen to your song"

Incidentally,the woman who chose to use exhibitionism to get her

shoeless foot in the door is none other than Suzanne Somers.

This image tattooed itself in my kiddie brain from the moment I

first saw it in the Johnson-Smith catalog.

One of several April Fools' covers created by

Norman Rockwell for

The Saturday Evening Post.

The jackalope...a staple of that underappreciated art form

of this past century...the postcard.

A still-frame from a scopitone...a mid-20th-century forerunner of the music video.

This one's from the one for "I Cried For You",by Sonny King.

And for those of you out there who are wondering,in the actual video,they cut

away just before the underpants go down.

This is,of course,that historic day in 1961,when

Roger Ramjet visited the White House.

Yet another advertisement from my childhood.

The little-seen first attempt of Disney's 

Pirates Of The Caribbean ride.

The even-lesser-seen second attempt.

The caption explains.

Ah,winter in Transylvania!!!

From the World Of Illusions,a tourist attraction in Gatlinburg,Tennessee,which

may or may not still exist.Apparently,the display changes from this...

...to this.

Yes,the often-mentioned scenario of the Man of Steel using his

legendary powers for voyeurism depicted!

In any case,it inspired me to create this...

Isn't it amazing how,to this day,we think Lady Godiva was some kind

of perfectly-proportioned beauty...when you really don't even have to

be a expert historian to know that that probably wasn't true?

Man,some of those old postcards were really weird.

Ah,the joys of altering golden age comics!

This is part of one of the sets built for the movie Gangs Of New York,

at Cinecitta Studios in Rome.

Kong looks upset about something.

Remember Freakies,the kids' cereal from the 70's?

I was never able to get the entire set.

Back when you could order monsters by mail.

What you normally see when you ride,and...

...what you'd be able to see if you worked there.

And now,as a public service to all those who ever wanted to create their own

Abbey Road parody,in which your favorite cartoon characters are

substituted for the Fab Four...download away!!!

The U.S.A.,not to scale.

Unfortunately,I don't know the artist...but it's

one heck of a depiction of the Trojan Horse.

Again,don't know the artist...but it's called

The Roses Of Heliogabalus.

Back when train travel was sunny and perfect.

Uhm...I think he knows you're there.

Lucky for you he's not 3-dimensional.

Okay,I just had to put this here once I found out about it...my love for Wacky Packages,

especially those of the 70's,led me to discover this unpublished one,with art by none other

than Norm Saunders,the guy who did just about all of the original ones!This was his reaction 

to the news that Marilyn Chambers,the face on the Ivory Snow box in the early 70's,became 

a bona-fide porn actress,starring in such films as Behind The Green Door.Imagine finding 

this one next to the stick of gum,sandwiched between Quacker Oats and Gadzooka!

Once I saw this,I just had to put it here...this is from Ed "Big Daddy" 

Roth's Facebook page.

Imagine being taken to your burial in this.

In the 1970s,Hostess ran a series of ads for their snack products in 

both DC and Marvel comics,usually a comic in which one of their 

trademark heroes manages to defeat a villain / get out of a precarious 

situation by offering someone a Twinkie,or a Fruit Pie,or a Cupcake 

etc. etc. Like many aspects of pop culture,these ads are still being 

parodied today...in fact,I did one,involving Rorschach from Watchmen 

and Hostess Fruit Pies (you can find it on my Superheroes page).

Anyway,the above spoof comes from the pages of CRAZY magazine,

a MAD wannabe published by Marvel in the 70's.

And while we're on the subject of humor magazines...in 1980,

whoever was running MAD magazine at the time was talked into 

lending their name,as well as the image of Alfred E Neuman,to the 

movie Up The Academy;apparently,they were promised it would do

for them what Animal House did for National Lampoon.

It didn't...of course,the fact that Animal House was based on material 

from the actual magazine,whereas Up The Academy was not,being little 

more than a low-rent imitation,might've had something to do with it.

Anyway,long story short...Academy disappeared quickly from theaters,

MAD sued the filmmakers for whatever...and this appeared in the pages 

of MAD,presumably an acknowledgment of their incredibly bad judgment. 

Just felt putting these here.