National Lampoon Sunday Newspaper Parody #[nn]

The National Lampoon Sunday Newspaper Parody is a gloriously overstuffed 1978 send-up of the American weekend paper, promising everything from National News to a Parade Magazine parody and eight full pages of comics. Andy Lackow's cover sets the satirical tone perfectly: a grinning paperboy on his bicycle winds up to hurl a rolled newspaper while an oversized cartoon dog — stuffed with papers — tumbles through the air, a bag full of puppy-sized dog cubs spills from his delivery satchel, and a bathrobe-clad homeowner on the front stoop stoops to retrieve his own paper from a little dog below. Inside, a writers' room that includes P. J. O'Rourke and a then-young John Hughes, with art from Warren Sattler, Frank Springer, and Chris Browne among others, delivers the full suburban Sunday-paper experience — minus any of the actual news.