Mad #215
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "A Crock o' Blip Now," Frank Jacobs spins a satirical take on the 1980 energy crisis through a playful, surreal collage of familiar nursery rhymes reimagined with gas shortages, fuel rationing, and automotive absurdity. Paul Coker’s sharp, expressive art brings the twisted verses to life, while Bob Jones’s cover captures the era’s anxious humor with a striking, tongue-in-cheek image.
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The energy crisis is satirized using the following nursery rhymes: Little Miss Muffet; Hickory, Dickory, Dock; The Car-Makers Say; Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater; As I Was Going to St. Ives; Freddie Siphons Gas Tanks; Jack Be Nimble; Little Boy Blue; Harry Has a Row of Pumps; and Exxon, Mobil, Gulf and Shell.
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