Review: More Gross

More Gross by Sam Gross
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I remember being in junior high and discovering National Lampoon, and trying to keep my issues hidden from my folks. I had convinced my Mom it was like Cracked or Mad, but it was quite a bit more adult than that. And hilarious. Little did they know. So when you have to secretly read your adult (or at least college) humor magazines, you need to be quick with your reading. And what is quicker than a one drawing cartoon? That's how I found Gross, and why his cartoons were so memorable to me. Reading this book, now more than 45 years after I found National Lampoon, was a trip down memory lane. They don't all hit, but those that do make me recall those feelings of humor, of confusion, and of naughtiness that I felt back then. Nice trip down memory lane, but still not safe to share with the parents, or with the humorlessly woke. Or, in the words of Sam Gross, "That's not funny, that's sick."

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