Zany Afternoons is a book containing a collection of some of illustrator Bruce McCall's best comic paintings to 1982. It was published by Knopf in that year and featured works that originally appeared mainly in National Lampoon. At 126 pages, the book includes written and illustrated material. Some of the pieces included in Zany Afternoons included:
- Soviet Mechnod-Foto Hello! - a parody of Soviet propaganda newspapers
- Wing Dining
- Pyramid Climber
- Rich People
- Bulgemobiles
- Tank Polo
- Zeppelin Shoots - "they fell so much more gracefully than grouse"
- RMS Tyrannic, The Biggest Thing In All The World
- Nazi Regalia for Gracious Living
- Huge Machines
- Forgotten Warbirds
- New York, Once Upon a Time
- 1936 Cairo World's Fair
- That Fabulous Battle of Britain!
- My Own Stamp Album
- Swillmart Supplement & Other Glimpses of the Golden Age of Play
- The Adventures of the Hotel Throckmorton
- RMS Tyrannic, The Biggest Thing In All The World
Famous quotes containing the word afternoons:
“Go out of the house to see the moon, and ‘t is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who could ever clutch it? Go forth to find it, and it is gone: ‘t is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)