I realize how impossible it would be to publish something like the LAMPOON today. In a turn that reads almost like something they might have parodied, our society has become insanely PC. (It's not so long since Bill Maher got kicked off the air for saying something politically incorrect on a show that was titled POLITICALLY INCORRECT!) A few years ago, a friend was involved in putting together a LAMPOON collection and realized many of Shary Flenniken's hilarious TROTS AND BONNIE strips would today be considered kiddie porn!

I've said before how much my own sense of humor was shaped by the LAMPOON. When I started at Marvel that kind of politically incorrect humor was everywhere in the office. Now, all these years later, the internet has become home to swarms of micro-brained idiots who live to be offended by such things. (Not that the LAMPOON did not cause great offense in its own day -- but those offended were most often perceived as pathetic losers who needed to get their heads out of their asses. Now they run the country!)