January 1978 - One look at the cover ought to tell you, without me having to state it, around what time period this issue is from.(Hard to imagine, from this perspective, that Farrah Fawcett was that popular, but I guess people twenty five years from now will feel that way about Jessica Simpson or Lindsay Lohan.)
This issue features a whole raft of comic book all-stars doing feature work, in addition to Gahan Wilson's "Atlantis Solved Again" and "Nuts", "The 6 Blunders of the Ancient World" featuring a painting by Val Mayerik, and "Trots and Bonnie" by Sharry Flenniken.
The main color comic feature is called "Gothic Romance Comics presents: Love's Savage Passion", written by Danny Abelson and drawn by none other than the legendary Joe Orlando:
...I love how, in the last panel, the woman's leg is popping out of the frame, drawing your attention to her, the same effect she's having on every guy within the panel itself.
As if that wasn't enough, there's another comics feature, "Ted Mann's Danger Rangerette" drawn by none other than Frank Thorne who, for my mind, drew about the sexiest women in comics, ever:
As if that wasn't enough, there's another comics feature, "Ted Mann's Danger Rangerette" drawn by none other than Frank Thorne who, for my mind, drew about the sexiest women in comics, ever:
By this time in NatLamp's history, art director and innovator Michael Gross has gone, but his visual stamp on the magazine was still in evidence. The Orlando sequence looks and feels like an old EC comics(or Plop! perhaps), and having two such different art styles as Ralph Reese and Frank Thorne back to back is genius.
3 comments:
OH yeah, pre-surgeried Fawcett was that big!
There's the classic Steve Martin line from the time:
"...so I neet Farrah, and she TOTALLY ignores me! And after all that time I spent holding her poster up with one hand...!!!"
Best,
-Craig W.
Farrah was an absolute cultural phenomenon that the bimbos you mentioned will never even approach. She was the "It" girl of the 70's, just as Raquel Welch was for the 60's.
Speaking of Animal House, I was fortunately able to attend the premiere as a guest of Lampoon. They had a theme premiere where you had to dress up in 60's college gear. School buses then transported everyone from the Loews Astor Plaza theater down to The Village Gate for the after party, where the entire cast of SNL was on hand, as well as Steve Martin and a bunch of others. John Belushi did a great version of "Money" on stage! It was friffin' INCREDIBLE!! Especially since I was only 18 years old!
joe-
WOW!!!
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