Tuesday, December 23, 2008

John makes with the funny


Here's the "cover" to Coupon Digest -- our Reader's Digest parody (before magazine parodies were commonplace, mind you) that filled the unsold ad space in the Spring 1981 Coupon Bonanza ad supplement to the Minnesota Daily. As a measure of how much good will we apparently had built up at the paper, management actually added 4 extra pages to the supplement for no other reason than to give us room to play.

Here's John's table of contents; note the '80s political references and well as other examples of John's distinctive brand of erudite, dry humor:

(click to enlarge; it's worth reading every word)

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