DRUNK, STONED, BRILLIANT, DEAD: The Writers and Artists Who Made the national Lampoon Insanely Great, by Rick Meyerowitz
“Well, this is a book done by an artist. I waited 35 years for some writer to tell the story. And they didn’t do it. When I decided to do this book, my thought was, here’s a chance to do a book that includes the artist. The magazine really was built, in a lot of ways, around its imagery. And its imagery was fantastic. There was a team of people that were supplying those images. Like Michael Doret, who did a few things for them. Or Mara McAfee. There doesn’t appear to be any one place where you could go to find her work, and I decided not to do a chapter on her, but I thought she was really important. Did you feel I short-changed some people? Or do you think the book had balance?…”
So when can we expect the complete NP in digital form?
Meyerowitz quote from Mark’s Very Large National Lampoon Site
