I was never a big fan of National Lampoon and its brand of humor but as a young lad imagine my surprise when I walked by the magazine rack and saw the above fantastic Frank Frazetta cover gracing the August 1973 issue. I picked it up and on the inside was yet another Frazetta drawing for a comic book spoof about a gay Dracula quaintly named Dragula. The story was drawn by another great master Neil Adams who also penned another story for the same issue called Son o’ God about a super hero messiah. Frazetta did another cover for Lampoon that I am aware of but I prefer this one and when I stumbled across this online the other day I thought I would put them up here and share them with the Cafe denizens since these drawings are fairly unknown. I know I just did a Frazetta post recently but I just do not think a person can ever get enough Frazetta. Imagine a time when you could scoop up art like this for a mere .75 cents.

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I have been trying to find lots of images online lately. I ran across a huge collection of Warren Magazine material and old mystery comics. The stuff got me thinking of one of my old comic book artist heroes Bernie Wrightson and I decided to finish a post I had began when I started this website. Most people who have a peripheral knowledge of comics know that Wrightson was known chiefly, if not almost exclusively, for his horror comic work. Influenced by the styles of EC Comics artists like “Ghastley” Graham Ingels and Frank Frazetta he would begin doing unique covers and interiors for DC in the late 60’s then would go on to do some fine work for Warren Magazine’s Creepy and Eerie. I grew up on these stories and was thrilled to find some of them online (though the versions I have are only in Spanish) and want to share one of them here. I have another story to accompany a review of Dario Argento’s Jenifer film (for the Masters of Horror TV series) and will have that up soon.

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