Since I can't PM you or send you an e-mail, I thought I would tell you how much I enjoyed you writing about Rocky and Bullwinkle's creator. That cartoon was full of satire and parody, and it had different levels of humor. I still enjoy watching the reruns on cable...geez, cartoons that you had to think about to laugh...what a concept...unlike the toons of today. No wonder I still have my old MAD Magazine collection (remember 43 Man Squamish?) as well as most of the Naiional Lampoon mags,, including the famed High School Yearbook Edition!.

Tim C.

 

Gotta love Jay Ward and company.

Which reminds me, I still have this pic in my gallery:



LOVED, loved, loved that stuff. My faves were Peabody's Improbable History and Fractured Fairytales.

Funny you should mention Lampoon. I worked for them once. Good times, good times.

Anyway, Ward had offices on Sunset Blvd., in what is now West Lost Angeles, right on the border of Hollywood. They had a store next to the office called Dudley Do-Right's Emporium where you could buy all kinds of memorabilia. Out in front was a statue of Bullwinkle and Rocky. They went out of business years ago. The statue is long gone and the old office building (which still looks pretty much the same) is now a day-care center for dogs. Folks who work in the business drop their dogs off there before going to work. A sad thing to be sure. Lampoon's offices over look the old Ward offices. I remember thinking fondly of them every time I saw the office . . . which was every day.

Yup, thinking about this is rather like setting the Way-back Machine. Good times indeed.