''Zany Afternoons'' is a book containing a collection of some of illustrator
Bruce McCall
Bruce McCall (born May 10, 1935) is a Canadian author and illustrator, best known for his frequent contributions to ''The New Yorker''.
Life and career
Born and raised in Simcoe, Ontario, Canada, he was fascinated by comic books and showed an earl ...
's best comic paintings to 1982. It was published by Knopf in that year and featured works that originally appeared mainly in ''
National Lampoon''. At 126 pages, the book includes written and illustrated material. Some of the pieces included in ''Zany Afternoons'' included:
* ''Soviet Mechnod-Foto Hello!'' - a parody of Soviet propaganda newspapers
* ''Wing Dining''
* ''Pyramid Climber''
* ''Rich People''
* ''Bulgemobiles''
* ''Tank Polo''
* ''Zeppelin Shoots'' - "they fell so much more gracefully than grouse"
* ''RMS Tyrannic, The Biggest Thing In All The World''
* ''Nazi Regalia for Gracious Living''
* ''Huge Machines''
* ''Major Howdy Bixby's Album of Forgotten War Birds'' - a parody of old-fashioned military planes, first published in
''Playboy'' magazine 1970
* ''New York, Once Upon a Time''
* ''1936 Cairo World's Fair''
* ''That Fabulous Battle of Britain!''
* ''My Own Stamp Album''
* ''Swillmart Supplement & Other Glimpses of the Golden Age of Play''
* ''The Adventures of the Hotel Throckmorton''
[The original Knopf paperback edition featured "Stewardesses of the Emerging Nations" on pages 114 - 117, which was replaced by "The Adventures of the Hotel Throckmorton" in the 1999 ]Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble Booksellers is an American bookseller. It is a Fortune 1000 company and the bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States. As of July 7, 2020, the company operates 614 retail stores across all 50 U. ...
hardcover reprint.
Notes
Books about visual art
1982 books
{{art-book-stub