NEW SHORT: "FAMOUS PEOPLE ARE THANKFUL, TOO!"

[Mockery]

Here's Max's heartwarming Thanksgiving comic about what famous people are truly thankful for.


NEW SHORT: "FAMOUS PEOPLE ARE THANKFUL, TOO!" -by Max Burbank
http://www.i-mockery.com/shorts/thankful-famous

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[zeldasbiggestfan]

AH LAHK ME SOME TATERS.

Holy shit. I laughed my ass off.Im gonna say that in the lunch line today.

[RectalWart]

Pure gold, Max. "My pound!" Damn, that's some funny shit!

[xbxDaniel]

What's max's site where he does his other comics? Is it on Nat'l Lampoons?

Great work by the way, really enjoyed it.

[mburbank]

The one on Natlamp is hard to find, since they decided they don't value original material AT ALL, but I'll go dig up a link in a bit. I have one up at Acid Logic right now, www.acidlogic.com.

And if you go dig up any issue of Hustler from 2005 I ran a monthly strip called "Angry D'arcy", the only non porno thing in their whole damn mag. I'm out of the closet about writing for them since they caned my ass. It used to be a carefully guarded secret.

The comcis take a HUGE amount of time to do, so there aren't so many of them.

[RectalWart]

"Caned" or "canned"? Because, come on, those are 2 VERY different things Max. I'm really hoping that when they are displeased, they don't go whipping their employees with bamboo canes.

[sadie]

you don't know max very well, huh?

[mburbank]

I know the difference! Caning costs good money!

Here's the Anne Coulter comic at Natlamp, by the way

http://zine.nationallampoon.com/inde...=218&Itemid=32

[RectalWart]

I stumbled upon this site:

http://www.justlaugh.com/online/max_burbank.php

You have a FAN BASE Max! Wheeeee!

[mburbank]

Actually, they are a website I used to write for. Mock hooked me up with them, nice folks. Unfortunately, they are defunct, but they keep their archive up, god bless them.

The earliest stuff there appeared in I-mock as well, but much of it can only be found there.

[Mockery]

Originally Posted by mburbank

The one on Natlamp is hard to find, since they decided they don't value original material AT ALL, but I'll go dig up a link in a bit.

What pisses me off is how much stuff you and I wrote for them that's no longer even online in their archives ever since they redesigned their site and seemingly became completely useless. You and I both spent a lot of time writing articles for 'em, and now I guess they're just lost forever?

[mburbank]

Yes. They stopped responding to my emails as well. At no point did they say "We're not doing original material anymore." Under original content, the most recent thing they have is a blog entry I wrote for them several months ago. You'd think they'd try to get some mileage out f stuff they paid for.

[Mockery]

The fact that they have millions of dollars, have a name that's been well known for so long and have plenty of people working full-time for them, yet seemingly do nothing with that site as the traffic continues to plummet is just sad. I just don't understand that kind of disorganization. Maybe for some college kids starting a web site, but not a big, established company like theirs.

[mburbank]

After Jay Pinkerton left them for Cracked, I never once got a handle on how they were working, who was in charge of what or saw any evidence that any of them knew anything about or had any previous experience with comedy. There were a number of editors I would hear from once or twice and then never again. Then there was a widely released press release for their 'relaunch' which actually mentioned me by name as one of their blogger, and then after only a few months they canceled all new material without ever even contacting me. I was subcontracting some work on a book they were doing, and they pulled the plug on that too.

They;re a publicly traded STOCK for God's sake! What a waste.

[Mockery]

J.P. is great and Cracked has been doing much better since he joined them, so it shows. As for Lampoon, you say you never got a handle on how they were working? My friend, I went in and interviewed with them for a flul-time writing position and still didn't know how they were working! I don't think they did either. They just seemed kind of broken and sad about their situation (ie: having to deal with the various areas of the company vying for promotional space on their site, rather than letting them focus on creating original content for the web). And yep, they emailed me about contributing to some new book too, but that entire project appears to have evaporated. 'Tis a sad state of affairs for 'em.

As for their stock, haha, somehow I don't think Jim Cramer would recommend them as a strong buy. Just check out their site traffic rankings right now... I feel bad for 'em. The guys that work there seemed real nice when I met 'em, but the company they work for just can't seem to get it together.

[MarioRPG]

That was an excellent comic, Max.

[Azrael]

Wow, I almost fell out of the chair on the OJ part. Well done.

[zeldasbiggestfan]

Originally Posted by Mockery

What pisses me off is how much stuff you and I wrote for them that's no longer even online in their archives ever since they redesigned their site and seemingly became completely useless. You and I both spent a lot of time writing articles for 'em, and now I guess they're just lost forever?

Whoa whoa whoa whoa! Hang on there sir! Your telling me that the gang-signs to flash in your neighborhood article is gone?? FUCK. I wanna read it again now. Is there anyway to get it back? Like (Im praying) you saved it?

[Yggdrasill]

I like it when I correct the stupids because they are always wrong