Fighting for your BUTTER TARTS
Perhaps not a hoax but the floating nuclear power purportedly slated for construction by Russia couldn't look more retro. From TOD:
According to Bruce McCall, "all meat looks like South America", and so I can't but notice that these minimalist plans look much like the retro stylings of Mr. McCall, a cartoonist for The New Yorker and before that, National Lampoon.
Phila remains a fan of the original cartoon work that I believe McCall derives much of his inspiration from.
posted by @whut at June 17, 2006
2 Comments:
I used to love his stuff in NL...I'd pore over it when I was a kid. He did an account of the Gulf of Tonkin in the style of a McKinley-era boy's magazine, which was one of the most brilliant things they ever published. ("See here, Chinky-Chinaman! Desist! Uncle Sam will not be trifled with!")
NL circa 1970 to 1976 was a huge influence on my sense of humor (now defunct).
Defunkt?
No way, Phila, it is now called a sophisticated sense of humour.
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