Dr Frank Kafka

 

This was a house ad for the BU News in around 1975. Once a week we'd work overnight producing about a 16 page tabloid using the facilities of Benwell Publishing (which I worked for later when it was known as Morgan-Grampian USA) in Brookline. Pam Miller did the typing on the magical machine known as the IBM Selectric (a typewriter),  which printed onto photo paper, that we cut to form columns via Exacto Knife, run through a hot waxer, and press on template pages....And that night, with no editors around, it turned out there was a hole in one column to fill, and I said I can do it. 

Clipped off from the bottom of the clip is the signatory for this 'join the News' sales pitch which is the character "Dr. Frank Kafka." Not the Harvard Lampoon (or Crimson) but a workable satire on the memes of the time. This was a complicated age in which we lived and "simplistic" solutions were not the answer to the question. I assume the drawing was done at the same time. It shows homage to Gahan Wilson I manfully assert. - Jack