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The National Lampoon Encyclopedia of Humor ( National Lampoon )
Release Date: 2005-05-31
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List Price: $17.95
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Product Description
The fifth title in the National Lampoon classic library, The National Lampoon Encyclopedia of Humor returns with the madness that only Michael O’Donoghue, P.J. O’Rourke, Terry Southern, Anne Beatts, Doug Kenney and Brian McConnachie could have possibly created.
Includes a pullout, 4-color, National Lampoon World Map and artwork from Edward Gorey, Bruce McCall and Rick Meyerwitz
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Thank goodness they cut down trees for this! ( westread )
At last a timely reprint (though not quite of the highest quality) of this brilliant 1973 Lampoon special. The original was a hardback book and the contents (not reprinted from the magazine) ran in alphabetical order from Aa, Antique plastics to Zz, Zen lizard. You don't need me to tell you that this is seriously funny stuff, beautifully written under the editorship of Michael O'Donoghue and stunningly designed by David Kaestle.
Some of the goodies I've enjoyed include ten pages of 'Battling Buses of World War II', six pages of the comic 'Deco Desperados', designed in the Art Deco/Moderne style (in my 1973 edition this has a fifth color of silver ink as an extra graphic element) an eight page 'The Name-On-Request Correspondence School of Home Study's Official 747 'Big Rig' Pilot's Training Course in Aviation', which includes an official diploma 'suitable for framing', six pages of a very wicked parody of the famous 'Family of Man' photo book, eleven page comic 'Cowgirls of War', drawn by Russ Heath in his best bondage style and plenty more articles, fiction, cartoons and comics.
Between all these feature pages there are contributions from all the Lampoon regulars who made the magazine the hippest pages around in the Seventies and Eighties.
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