RIP: National Lampoon Art Director Michael Gross
Late in life, Gross moved to Italy to paint and helped curate a San Diego-area museum.
When the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) counted down in 2005 the top 40 magazine covers of the preceding four decades, this came in at #7:
The January 1973 cover recalls a time when the combination of political correctness and social media outrage did not rain down on every effort that pushes past conventional lines. It also, per an obituary in The New York Times by William Grimes, is one of the many great pieces of work left behind by Michael Gross, the Harvard publication’s one-time art director.
WORK SMARTER - LEARN, GROW AND BE INSPIRED.
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