NATIONAL LAMPOON fake history of comics - NEAL ADAMS, S CLAY WILSON, WRIGHTSON,

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National Lampoon Presents the Very Large Book of Comical Funnies : A Never Before Published History of the Comics
1975 magazine-sized softcover book, square-bound, full-color.
* Excerpt from a review by Kristy Valenti:
It\'s strange there doesn\'t seem to be a contemporary body of discourse surrounding National Lampoon Presents The Very Large Book of Comical Funnies, since it essentially maps out 21st century comics criticism and revivalism. Published in 1975 (several decades after Colton Waugh\'s The Comics and a decade after Roy Lichtenstein\'s pop art, but predating The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics), perhaps its most arresting and prescient image is its photographic cover; a sexy woman in juvenile pigtails, bum only half-covered by her cutoffs, looking at a gallery wall, arms akimbo, one wedge sandal pointed up in casual contemplation. \"Pow\" reads the back of her T-shirt. (If there were some sort of prize for Most Obscure Cosplay, this would be a good option.) Behind a velvet rope, the three most representative forms of American comics (at the time) hang, framed: the lowest is a comic strip in the style of Nancy; the picture in the middle looks like a Golden Age superhero comic-book panel; hung highest is an imitation of a Robert Crumb Mr. Natural underground comic. (They are arranged in chronological order, from oldest to newest.) In the middle ground, and older gentleman stands ramrod straight, gravely guarding the museum\'s treasures.
The book has very good production value, printed on newsprint, and is organized with color sections that concentrate on certain decades (the \'50s), events (the hysteria surrounding comics and juvenile delinquency) and themes (racism). The material, which parodies both the comics themselves and the way that people (would soon) write about them, was commissioned especially for the book.
Perhaps part of the reason contemporary critics and fans haven\'t seized upon The Very Large Book of Comical Funnies yet is it\'s a little too perfect an imitation to be really funny; visually, there is little to distinguish these parodies from the genuine article (other than to add back in the sex and poop that were probably removed for a mass audience), and its no wonder, since they drawn by cartoonists/craftsmen such as Russ Heath, George Evans, Howard Chaykin, Neal Adams, Ernie Colón, Berni Wrightson, Walt Simonson, Mike Ploog, S. Clay Wilson and Spain.
* The scans show the front and back covers.
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