Here's a complete run of National Lampoon covers from 1971 - 1998. The August 1971 cover depicts American war criminal William Calley as the imbecilic Alfred E. Neuman, painted by the inimitable science fiction illustrator Kelly Freas.
National Lampoon cover gallery 1970-1998
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A crude, rude, and brilliant magazine.
I bought, as a young teen, the issue showing lions screwing hapless sheep. My parents weren't exactly puritanical, but you can bet I kept it hidden.
I consider myself very lucky. My parents had a subscription to National Lampoon (and Playboy no less), so I got to read a lot of these issues growing up. I had forgotten just how impressive some of those covers were as works of art.
Probably not everyone knows the backstory to this cover, but it's a spoof on this Esquire cover which is one of the most famous covers in American magazine history. Read the page for more.
If You Don't Buy This Magazine, We'll Kill This Dog.
I was an adult when this was first published: loved National Lampoon for its absolutely vicious, no-holds-bars take on politics, even when I didn't agree.
The link to Esquire (from Oskar) is one of the creepiest things ever. Apparently I missed that at the time! (Gotta love all those Vietnamese orphans being cuddled by a really nasty piece of work.)
I miss 70s NatLamp, there was nothing better. The writing, art work and art direction departments were all well ahead of their time. No one has done it nearly as well since, including NatLamp itself.
The covers after 1978 are pretty bad. The ones after 1980 are awful. The ones after 1990 are like what you might expect if a young, drunk, coked-up George W. Bush had been the editor.
January, 1977 - Suck it, Mad Men!
I had virtually every issue from 1973 up to the mid 80's. Even where I didn't get the references (drugs, booze, sex...most of the magazine at times) the quality of the writing still drew me in. Plus there was the article on "A woman's view of sex", or somesuch, which was awesome. A couple of pages of lead up, flip the page and the article consisted of a two-page fold of a picture of a ceiling. Cheekily crass, and a fine example of misdirection.
I LOVE(ed) National Lampoon!
If only I could get the issues archived on .pdf... I have a few, purchased during the late 80s / early 90s (that Hercules Comic and Politeness-man) and some I've found in stacks in used bookstores and porn places...
The images at http://lampoon.rwinters.com are scans of my own collection. One of these days I'll get around to posting the covers of all the special issues (such as the Encyclopedia of Humor).
There is a DVD available of the complete magazines (I bought a copy), but it's much nicer to have the originals.
-- Robert Winters