Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Where it began...

Wacky Packages. One of my first obsessions as a kid in the '70s. These bubble gum stickers with parodies of products coincided with my discovery of Mad Magazine, George Carlin, and Cheech and Chong. My brain was soft clay. This explains why I am the way I am.For the most part.

3 comments:

Bob Neill said...

Tough to start out with satire as your norm. My generation started out with romance as its norm. We felt more connected to everything rather than critically detached. We weren't, of course, but we thought we were...

jaz said...

My brother and I LOVED Wacky Packages. I can't remember if we discovered them through my dad or the reprinted editions that came out later, but we thought they were the absolute bomb.

I only found out recently that Art Spiegelman was one of the artists who worked on them, which made me feel pretty smug about my tastes as a 10 year old.

Jim Neill said...

As was Bill Griffith aka Zippy the Pinhead scribe.