I've been trying for years to track down a specific issue of a
Mad-style magazine from the mid-to-late '60s. It wasn't Mad or Cracked.
It may well have been Sick, but I think I've seen all the covers from
the era and none rang a bell.
Here's what I remember: a full page (probably back cover) saying
something like "This magazine is for right-wingers and leftists," with
a cartoon of two essentially identical figures representing the two
sides, the leftist one carrying "Das Kapital." A hard-boiled detective
comic strip (this was the last article in the mag) with a little lady
standing outside the panels whitewa****ng out all the four-letter words.
A series of cartoons based on southern foods (spoonbread: a loaf with
spoons sticking out; hush puppies: dogs with their mouths tied shut;
hominy grits: a guy pointing to his plate apparently counting "how
many"). A story about the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. Ads for books
called "How to Be a Polack," "How to Be Italian," "How to Be Jewish."
Does any of this ring a bell with anybody?
Your pal,
Biffy the Elephant Shrew
