I was a big fan of National Lampoon, a magazine published from 1970 until…well, its last known issue was published in 1998 but the last few years, it bounced around between handlers and it came out every so often and didn't often resemble the National Lampoon. If you subtract those years and the first, rough months when it looked like something done by high school students, you had about twenty years of some of the sharpest humor writing and cartooning ever done in this country. A lot of its contributors went on to be very important in TV, movies, publishing and other lucrative fields.
One of my favorite NatLamp contributors was the fine cartooning person, B.K. Taylor. Loved everything he drew…for that magazine and for other clients. The guy turned up everywhere, even in Jim Henson's employ where he designed a lot of well-known Muppets. And he drew tons of funny advertising. And he drew kids' books. And he wrote for TV. And he worked for Disney. And he just was everywhere. Nice fellow, too.
His work for National Lampoon, including The Appletons and Timberland Tales has now been collected into a very handsome volume from our friends at Fantagraphics. Here is where you can order a copy of I Think He's Crazy. You'll be glad you did.