Literature out th' ass. A perfect title for a bold new FMF© initiative! We at Th' House O' Foam© have always seen literary outreach as part of our mission - part of th' Foam DNA, if you will. From time to time we'll be releasing sumptuous limited editions of Th' Great Classics Of Literature Out Th' Ass. Heritage volumes you'll be proud to display in your own library of books!
To start the program rolling, we present the entire run of Harvey Kurtzman's EC Mad comic, in vibrant and lifelike color! Conveniently comb-bound in handy .pdf format, you'll be able to read them on any household device, from Etch-A-Sketch to digital clock radio! Yes, dear friends, this is truly an heirloom collection that will show your friends and neighbors you really do got literature out th' ass!
ReplyDeleteCalculated tales
The Slipshod Retention......yeah, loved that movie....
ReplyDeleteThe whole collection............!!!!!!Wow. This is amazing and greatly appreciated.
ReplyDeleteHoo-Hah, that's some real stuff there!
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately my etch-a-sketch was broken by one of my grandchildren (the little thugs) and I will have to read this worthy tome on my computer. Despite the inconvenience I shall carry on.
ReplyDeleteI am deeply moved, at a fundamental level, by the interest in and support for this exciting new initiative! Who sez music blogs is for illiterate slobs? Why, th' Four Or Five Guys© is a veritable Algonquin Round Table! There'll be more Great Classics Of Literature Out Th' Ass in upcoming posts!
ReplyDeleteYeah, but I ain't got no crayons......
DeleteAsk the warden. You're allowed crayons.
DeleteI will download with the greatest thanks but at 254.8 MB this is much smaller than my own collection of Mad 1952-2005 up to #460 (and extras) which measures around 6.51gb
ReplyDeleteDoes size matter?
Will I ever get round to reading all or, indeed any, of them?
Yours aye
JJWombat
Close study of the post will reveal that this is the original run of 23 (?) EC comics, before it changed format to the larger B/W magazine. As you were.
DeleteCheers Farq. I did check this out out after my premature posting:
ReplyDelete"Harvey Kurtzman was the primary writer for Mad from its founding in 1952 until its 28th issue in 1956. What began as a color comic book became a black-and-white magazine with its 24th issue."
Many thanks! - Stinky
ReplyDeleteThe GCOLOTA project is a great idea. Now, truth be told, I'm
ReplyDeleteafflicted a lot like JJWombat, only more so. My Mad Magazine
folder goes up to 2017, contains 550 items, and weighs in at
nearly 11 GB. Otherwise, I'd be freeloadin' all up and down
this one.
My subscription started with #36, December '57, which I still have, but my furshlugginer copy is not in "collectible" shape, so this nicely fills in my gap.
ReplyDeletePotrzebie!!
Your post's title recalled a copywriter I once worked with whose favorite assertion was, "I'm an artist and I'm sensitive as shit."
ReplyDeleteMaybe your copywriter was the same one who had a t-shirt printed up with WORDS IS MY BUSINESS.
DeleteFor half of 1961 I enquired weekly at the newsagents about the UK edition. I'd only heard of it by reputation, but that was enough for me
ReplyDeleteThe UK edition published a letter I sent. It is my proudest achievement.
DeleteBut I hated the UK edition, with its stupid and clumsy text adjustments to make it more "comprehensible" to UK readers. Part of Mad's mystique was the baffling cultural references that lent it a genuinely surrealist quality that eluded the US market entirely. I only recently understood the image of a paper strip being torn down a cigarette to reveal the tobacco, which struck me as one of the weirder things I'd seen.
The discovery that there'd been an earlier, comic book Mad was on a par with the revelation of Tutunkhamun's tomb for me - I found the original paperback collections in a second-hand bookshop, and studied them at granular level. I also manged to find a few copies of "Help!" magazine - pre-internet, this was real treasure, won through real effort. The complexity (and strangeness) of the False Memory Foam© header up there is in some way a tribute to that crazed complexity of pop culture iconography found in the pages of Mad, especially the work of Will Elder, as great an artist who ever lived.
Will Elder . . . (Little Annie Fanny fans?) . . .
DeleteUp there with Jack Davis and Drew Freidman, fer(shlugginer?)sure...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Davis_(cartoonist)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Friedman_(cartoonist)
The Complete Little Annie Fanny is the next in our Great Classics Of Literature Out Th' Ass series ...don't change channels!
DeleteYoinks! Er, or was that a Scooby Doo=ism?
DeleteJeepers. AM I shore glad I opened my yapper!
Looking forward to . . . . looking back at it.
What next, the Complete "Freak Brothers"?! No, wait, I bet Four outta the Five Guys ™ DID not inhale . ...
Furry Freak Bros. is a swell idea .... not sure I got 'em all ...
DeleteThis could go downhill, erm, I mean, down to the '60s "trash" pile quickish. Do we need someone to suggest a Crumb of a hint...? R........... I mean, OR would that be Crumb-y of me...? (Signed, Hon. Weirdo emeritus, Foist classh, PH&D)(PiledHigherAndDeeper)
DeleteYou betcha Crumb's a-comin' up!
DeleteKeep on Truckin' ! I mean, Crumb us!
DeleteReading is fundamental. That, and potrzebie.
ReplyDeleteHow anyone can claim that an album with songs like all of 'em on Wake Of The Flood is crud is beyond me. It's a swell album. Deadheads hate the studio albums by definition.
Deleteooooh, in color even ... that must have run up quite a bill duplexing all these copies for us loyal followers. Your generosity never ceases to amaze me. Thank you Farquhar!
ReplyDeleteWell, I was running off a few hundreds for walking-about money, so I thought while the machine's still hot, why not?
DeleteThank you. Nice collection of readings materials.
ReplyDeleteMet most of the 'usual gang of idiots' after Bill passed away at a celebration of his life.
ReplyDeleteHad an almost a complete collection of the mags, but lost it all after a major storm/flood - also original art.
What Me Worry?
Should be a comma after 'passed away'!
DeleteI like it without the comma better -- what better time to go?!
DeleteLink sadly exclusive now :(
ReplyDeleteSwanditch, I don't re-up literary masterpieces because I have to hunt for them through my badly disorganized external drives. Sorry you missed out, but try the Pirate Bay, if you can torrent without getting arrested!
DeleteUploading now -- I'll post the link shortly!
DeleteHere you go! Unfortunately future visitors to the IoF will still be out of luck as the links don't last long (at least for freeloaders like me). Act quickly! (And hopefully Farq will honor my generosity with some honorific or another)
Deletehttps://workupload.com/file/DTQFJayxE44
Thanks ever so much, MrDave
DeleteAppreciating all the fine work you and Mr. Throckmorton are putting in
to educate us Philistines!