Zany Afternoons

Zany Afternoons is a book containing a collection of some of illustrator Bruce McCall'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 ^[1]

Notes

^ 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 hardcover reprint.

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[1] 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 hardcover reprint.

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