Sick #91, 2 of 3

Here's the second part of Sick #91 from July 1972. The previous part is here.

I'm guessing this was reprinted from Art Buchwald's newspaper column.

Jack Sparling did this centerspread. They did a centerfold like this in several issues was a takeoff on Burt Reynolds's centerfold for Cosmopolitan, itself a takeoff on magazine centerfolds.

Tony Tallarico

Sick #84, 2 of 3

The second part of the 84th issue of Sick form June 1971.The first part is here.
The Mafia's something I'll put on my eventual list of things I know mostly from magazines like this.

Art by Arnoldo Franchioni

Sick usually profiled a comedian in each issue. Spiro Agnew and Spiro Agnew watches are things that go on the aforementioned rhetorical list.

Tiny Tim also goes on there.

I think these portraits had already been done for something and were recycled here. After Lyndon Johnson left office, he retired, which would have been two years by this point.
Politicians are:
TOP: Ronald Reagan, Nelson Rockefeller, Edmund Muskie, Richard Nixon
BOTTOM: John Lindsay, George McGovern, Hubert Humphrey and Lyndon Johnson, Spiro Agnew and William Buckley.

Tony Tallarico

Sick #84, 1 of 3

This here is the first part of Sick #84 (or as they say, volume 11, number 4) from June 1971.

First is the cover. They liked to make fun of Spiro Agnew. The contents page blurb tells us:
This months cover painting is by JACK SPARLING. The original is now hanging in the SICK office. Not the painting—the original JACK SPARLING!

Also on the contents page were more of their favorite targets: Ringo Starr, Tiny Tim, and Michael J. Pollard.

Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice was always being satirized in these magazines. It's one of those 70s movies I've only seen evidence of there and I'm convinced their staff made them up.

Obligatory Ripley's Believe It or Not parody.

Text-only piece to make up for their inability to pay for much art.

John Costanza

Sick #85, 1 of 3

Here's he first part of Sick #84 from August 1971. By this point Paul Laikin was the full editor and it was obvious he didn't have the budget he once had. There are fewer artists and more pieces that are just text. More pieces written by him and pseudonyms and names of family members on the masthead to make it look like more people were working for the magazine.

Cover by Jack Sparling

Art by Jerry Grandenetti

Usually I don't reprint the letters page but this was full of so many sight gags and asides I felt the need to. And I think the letters are all made up.

Arnoldo Franchioni

More next Monday.