Good news for National Lampoon fans: Artist Rick Meyerowitz, a longtime contributor to the humor magazine during its golden years (and a little beyond) has put together a 320 page volume of the best of the Lampoon, along with remembrances from the various storied collaborators, who were/are as the title would have it Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Writers and Artists Who Made the National Lampoon Insanely Great (Abrams):

From its first issue in April, 1970, the National Lampoon blazed like a comet, defining comedy as we know it today. To create Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, former Lampoon illustrator Rick Meyerowitz selected the funniest material from the magazine and sought out the survivors of its first electrifying decade to gather their most revealing and outrageous stories. The result is a mind-boggling tour through the early days of an institution whose alumni left their fingerprints all over popular culture: Animal House, Caddyshack, Saturday Night Live, Ghostbusters, SCTV, Spinal Tap, In Living Color, Ren & Stimpy, The Simpsons—even Sesame Street counts a few Lampooners among its ranks. Long before there was The Onion and Comedy Central news shows, there was the National Lampoon, setting the bar in comedy impossibly high!

 
Thanks, Mike Backes!