Crazy Magazine #53

Marvel's humor magazine "The Magazine That Dares to Be Dumb" swings into its "Big New Splitting From School Issue" with this gleefully chaotic graduation scene painted by Bob Larkin. The cover centerpiece is a toga-wearing, laurel-crowned wild man clutching a diploma and a dripping can — beer-soaked and totally unbothered — while a stern dean at the podium and a row of properly robed graduates look on with varying degrees of dismay and amusement. It's a perfectly pitched snapshot of 1979 Crazy energy, promising the irreverent laughs inside, including a peek at "Irving — the Osmond Brother They Never Talk About.