Posts Tagged with "humor magazines"

The Realist Archive Project

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

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The Realist Archive Project

In 1958, Paul Krassner founded a “magazine of freethought and satire” called The Realist. Around four decades—and lots of unlikely adventures—later, Krassner closed up shop. Though Krassner’s probably better known for his activities as a Yippie, The Realist is his true legacy and, I would argue, infinitely more substantial. The lovechild of Harvey Kurtzman and [...]

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Gahan Wilson’s Sunday Funnies

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

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Gahan Wilson’s Sunday Funnies

Each one of us picks a few things to glom on to as a child, a movie or a piece of clothing or even a kind of food, and those things become part of the furniture we carry around upstairs. Cartoonist Gahan Wilson—think Charles Addams, but infinitely more threatening and hallucinatory—is definitely in my own [...]

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Spy and Kong

Saturday, December 23, 2006

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Here’s my friend Dave Etkin’s e-Christmas card. Always a treat. Todd Jackson has an in-depth interview with Kurt Andersen here. Fascinating, for the seven or eight of us who like that sort of thing. There’s a puzzling insistence on Mad Magazine as Spy‘s forebear, when Spy‘s lineage is obvious: Private Eye filtered through the graphic [...]

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A new National Lampoon magazine?

Wednesday, January 8, 2003

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In something scientifically designed to drive me insane, the New York Observer has an article about Rugged Land publishing’s recent attempts to resurrect National Lampoon as a print magazine. (Previous to this, they were planning to do everything BUT a magazine.) I’m dubious that Harvard Lampoon (which forced the 1998 shuttering of J2′s dreadful version, [...]

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