One of Bob’s many clients was West End Games, producer of roleplaying games based on such licenses as Star Wars, Ghostbusters, and Indiana Jones. An original game series that they published was Paranoia, a humorous science fiction adventure set in a dystopian future (a genre that’s all the rage these days). The “Crash Course Manual” told the story behind civilization’s downfall.How can you tell this manual was published in the 1980s? Why, just look at the big hair on the female lead! Apparently she got her styling tips from watching Peggy Bundy on long-lost reruns of Married… With Children. (Could’ve been worse—she might have tried copying Max Headroom’s hairstyle!)
The photo of the actual painting beside a copy of the book was found online, in the collection of Brett Easterbrook.
Steve Roman
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