DRUNK, STONED, BRILLIANT, DEAD: The Writers and Artists Who Made the national Lampoon Insanely Great, by Rick Meyerowitz 

"Well, this is a book done by an artist. I waited 35 years for some writer to tell the story. And they didn't do it. When I decided to do this book, my thought was, here's a chance to do a book that includes the artist. The magazine really was built, in a lot of ways, around its imagery. And its imagery was fantastic. There was a team of people that were supplying those images. Like Michael Doret, who did a few things for them. Or Mara McAfee. There doesn't appear to be any one place where you could go to find her work, and I decided not to do a chapter on her, but I thought she was really important. Did you feel I short-changed some people? Or do you think the book had balance?..."

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Meyerowitz quote from Mark's Very Large National Lampoon Site