National Lampoon — "Flea Market / Chicken Palace" Street Scene Illustration, Framed (11x15)

A framed original full-page illustration from National Lampoon — a densely detailed street scene cartoon featuring a "Flea" market building, "Chicken Palace," a beauty shop, a street basketball game, and a cast of neighborhood characters rendered in a raw, folk-art-adjacent style. Caption at bottom reads: "From illustrations by Wayland Lucas, the white folk just can't get enough of that black Broadway stuff." Professionally framed in black with glass, 11x15 inches. Ready to hang.

Wayland Lucas was a contributing illustrator to the National Lampoon during its 1970s peak — the era when the magazine was at its most culturally ambitious and its most culturally reckless. This piece sits squarely in that tension: a densely observed street scene with genuine illustrative energy, captioned with a line that implicates the magazine's own white readership in the act of consumption. It's a document of how the Lampoon engaged — and often mishandled — questions of race and culture in 1970s America, and it rewards the kind of critical looking that the best vintage ephemera demands.

A rare framed Lampoon illustration from a named contributor. The kind of piece that belongs in a collection, not a drawer. One available.

• Publication: National Lampoon — 1970s
• Artist: Wayland Lucas
• Subject: Street scene — Flea Market, Chicken Palace, neighborhood characters
• Frame: Black frame with glass, 11x15 inches
• Condition: Very good — consistent with age
• Original magazine illustration — not a reproduction
• One available