News archives
Missouri Showme issues online
The MU University Archives now digitally holds the entire run of the MU campus humor magazine Missouri Showme. You can browse the collection or search the collection online. The magazine included a lot of comics and illustrations from students over the years, so the digital archive holds a lot of Mid-Missouri comic history inside its pages.
As mentioned in my earlier post this week, Jerry Smith’s recently written history of the Missouri Showme is also included in the online records: Missouri Showme - the Final, FINAL issue: Memories of staff members of the University students’ humor magazine - 1946 thru 1963. Smith’s project started when Karen Worley, who is an editor for the Mizzou - the magazine of the Mizzou Alumni Assocation, asked Smith if he’d be interested in writing down a history of Showme last March. Parts of the history were used in the Spring 2008 Issue of Mizzou, but the whole 28,000 word history is now available online for the first time.
Here’s a little information about the Missouri Showme from the website:
Articles in the Missouri Showme and earlier and later titles consist primarily of spoof and parody of campus and student life. The magazine had many titled theme issues among which were: Escape, Showme Girl, Sex, Expose, Hangover, Sweatsock, The Ozarks, Insanity, Halloween, Take Home to Mother, Saturday Evening Pest, The Draft, Hanukah, Alcoholic, After Truman, who? O’Toole for President, A Freshman’s Handbook of Misinformation, Get Your Hand Out of My Stocking, Confidential, and Communist Exchange.
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