From time to time we spotlight one worthy individual blog. Today, that blog is Sam Henderson’s Magic Whistle. Henderson is an illustrator who has worked for everyone from Screw to Nickelodeon with a stopover as an early storyboard director for Spongebob! He’s run lots of interesting stuff at his blog but a favorite topic is humor magazines. Here a few links we recommend.

Pussycat artist Jim Mooney was the perfect artist to utilize for a parody of Barbarella and that’s exactly what the Grade Z 1970′s Mad imitation Blast did. Sam’s run a lot from the forgotten Blast and here’s that spoof, Boobarella.

http://themagicwhistle.blogspot.com/2009/11/blast-2-3-of-4.html

Another find from Sam was Shaft, a 1950′s college humor magazine from which the Magic Whistle has run a number of excerpts from a number of different issues.

http://themagicwhistle.blogspot.com/2009/08/shaft-november-1954.html

Edward R. Murrow’s Person to Person TV series was spoofed by Stan Lee and artist Joe Maneely in Snafu, one of several Atlas imitations of Mad published in the 1950′s.

http://themagicwhistle.blogspot.com/2009/07/snafu.html

Finally, here’s Neal Adams with a spoof of underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau from a seventies issue of Harpoon, a singularly unfunny knock-off of National Lampoon.

http://themagicwhistle.blogspot.com/2009/12/harpoon-3-3-of-5.html

For more rare and odd humor mag excerpts along with some regular comics-related stuff and Sam’s own art, check out Sam Henderson’s Magic Whistle daily! We do.