See issue #11 here...
My favorite cover. It's mine. I conceived it. I had all the statues and comic stuff. I had to borrow my brother-in-law's 35 mm camera to take it. Then one of the co-editors added the Plague-centric stuff and we turned it into a cover. Needless to say, we were doing the Sgt. Pepper cover. Or maybe I needed to say that.
See issue #11 here...
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The Christmas issue. Cover was my idea, featuring our mascot, Zol.
I remember pitching it to both Mad and Cracked as a cover idea with their mascots. I was happy to finally get it used. See the whole issue here. My first post-graduate issue, featuring the recently arrested professor on the cover. One of the few times we attempted "topical" humor, since our lead time was so long.
Full issue here. Over the summer we got together to prepare a mini-issue that we could hand out at the start of term 1979 at the big NYU clubs and teams street fair. That way we could both amuse and recruit students. The NYU archive doesn't have this issue. I sent them a link to this. We'll see what happens.
The 4th issue of our second year. This was my last issue...as a student of NYU. I didn't let a little thing like graduation keep me from being involved. Apparently it saved the staff the grief of bringing in new members. Which, as we would discover, would cause a lot of grief to the old members. I don't know how we got two issues out in the Spring of 1979. We tried to do 3 a year, Fall, Winter and Spring. I don't remember why we did issues two months in a row, for a total of four for the semester. Maybe we had a lot of submissions to use. Maybe our budget had been increased and we had enough to do another issue. It was my farewell issue and the guys gave me (and Amy Burns) a shout-out in the masthead. We were the first two members to leave, not just disappear or submit one & done, but to graduate and move on, kinda. Anyway, the whole issue is here. The Mutant Issue. We decided to go "theme," much like National Lampoon, excluding the readership. And the theme. The whole issue is here. To be honest, it was like we were doing clip-art before clip-art was a thing. We even put an old Zoetrope photos in one corner to try and get a flip-book moving picture effect.
Hey, it's our first Christmas issue!
Whole issue is here. The highlight for me of this issue is the authentic Kmart ad parody. Having made friends with the lady in advertising at Kmart, (where I was working my way through college) she let me go through the old graphics so I took enough to do a bunch of fake ads for the magazine. People who are paying attention will notice that I duplicated the ads for Cracked several years later. Issue three of the first year. Got to mock the campus with our first ever "Theme Issue." And I got to write my first Staten Island-centric bit, along with an NYU Q&A.
For the rest of the issue, go here. Issue three of our first year. We had to paste this stuff to layout boards by hand. Oh, the rubber cement! We were still shy a decent artists, so I would draw my own stuff. To do the cover, we had to outsource. I roped my brother Glenn into doing it. Then we all went nuts with the lettering and various borders and doodads, like using counting fingers to number the pages. Anyway, these are my bits. I don't know why we weren't doing bylines here. But my stuff; Fun Things to do in NYC, Hooray for Hollywood (Part 2), and Joke Alarm. You can see the whole issue here.
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