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Category Archives: College: 1946 on
Wisconsin Octopus Parodies, 1920-1959
The Magazine Before The Onion, the most famous humor magazine to come out of Madison was the University of Wisconsin Octopus, b. November 1919, d. 1959, after UW officials found the May issue so offensive they extinguished the title. The editors … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, College, Flair, Life, Online, Playboy, The New Yorker, Time, Wisconsin Octopus
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Parodies of Mad, 1954-2019
Some folks can’t handle success. Last year, Mad (b. 1952) passed Judge (1881-1947) to become the longest-lived U.S. humor magazine, newsstand division. This summer, it announced its October 2019 issue — number 9 of the current series — would be the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Mad, Magazine
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Online: Collier’s WW3 & Shaft’s “Collera’s,” 1951-52
Parody Of: Collier’s, Oct. 27, 1951. Title: “Collera’s,” for Oct. 27, 1951 In: U. of Illinois Shaft, Jan. 1952. Format: 13 b&w pages + 1 cover. Magazine parodies rarely focus on one particular issue of their subjects, but the “preview” … Continue reading
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Tagged 1950s, College, Collier's, Illinois Shaft, Magazine
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Playboy Parodies 1: College, 1955-1989
Parodies of Playboy fall roughly into two groups and two eras: those created by college students, mostly in the 1950s and ’60s, and those done by commercial publishers, mostly in the ’70s and ’80s. The catalyst for the shift was … Continue reading
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Tagged 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, College, Magazine, Playboy
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Jester’s “Columbia College Toady,” 1969
Parody Of: Columbia College Today. Parody By: Jester of Columbia. Title: “Columbia College Toady.” Date: April 1969. Format: 8.375″x11″ stapled magazine, 32 pp. + covers. Availability: Very scarce. The Columbia Jester’s 1969 parody of the school’s alumni mag is no match for such classics as … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960s, College, Columbia College Today, Columbia Jester
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Harvard’s “New York Times,” March 7, 1968
Parody Of: The New York Times. Title: “The New York Times” Parody By: Harvard Lampoon. Date: March 7, 1968. Length: Front page only? Contributors: Rob Hoffman, Jonathan Cerf, Peter Gable. Availability: Very rare; reprinted in the Harvard Lampoon Centennial Celebration (pp. 38-39) and 100 Years of Harvard Lampoon Parodies (pp. 30-31). … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960s, College, Harvard Lampoon, Newspaper, The New York Times
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Duke + Look = “Dook,” 1949
Parody Of: Look. Title: “Dook (and Duchess).” Parody By: Duke and Duchess. Date: November 19, 1949. Length: 28 pages plus covers. Availability: Hard to find; one copy sold on eBay in late 2017. College humor mags were prone to grumble-brag about how much time and effort they … Continue reading
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Tagged 1940s, College, Duke, Look, Magazine, UNC
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Columbia Jester Parodies, 1913-1989
Jester of Columbia, to use its formal title, wasn’t the first publication at Columbia University to include humor, but it was the first to exclude everything else. It debuted on April Fool’s Day, 1901, twenty-four years after the birth of … Continue reading
The Chaparral Mocks L&M, 1960
College students will parody almost anything, but you can flip though hundreds of old campus humor magazines without finding a fake cigarette ad. You’ll find hundreds of real ones, though: From the 1920s until 1963, tobacco companies were the biggest … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960s, Advertising, College Parodies, Stanford Chaparral
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