This extremely psychedelic cover from the May, 1983 issue of “Blip,” a video games magazine from Marvel Comics, illustrates what happens when you do mushrooms before typing in the BASIC programs printed inside: Alfred E. Neuman sneaks into the periphery of your rapidly dissembling vision and begins to pleasure your girlfriend. Don’t do computers, kids!
(Added to the still lackluster “Electro Selectro Flickr pool. On a more positive note, the In the Year 2000 group is still chugging along.)
(Thanks for the image, R. Poole!)
Except what it ( The Illustration, an ancient visual medium largely displaced by computer graphics)actually was made to represent(which is what the magazine wanted) was a fanciful, non drug induced visual evolution of the electronics progress from a simple joy stick of the ping pong electronics era to First generation ( advanced at that point in technology history) very early computer keyboard. Note in the scampering into the unit of more sophisticated components, chips etc and the mutant like dividing, sub dividing and morphing of the components into a more advanced configuration. It was like watching a film, but I had to represent it in one single image so like a series of flash frozen photos, you see the progressive steps.. Note, if you would,the pleased fascination of the couple as they watch Technology progress before their eyes.