In the 60’s, my brother had a small paperback that was, I think, a parody of the Berenstain childrens book series. I remember things like the mother and father bear standing inside waving to their kids getting on the schoolbus, the bus leaves, the dad looks lasciviously at the mom, she gets a panicky look, then he chases her. Ha ha. Other pictures I remember are the dad making a gigantic female nude statue. (I don’t recall the punchline.)
Does this sound familiar to anyone else? It may have been associated in some way with Mad Magazine.
This doesn’t sound like a MAD parody. I read Mad back then.
IIRC, the Berenstein Bears didn’t even come out until the 1970s. In the 1960s and early 1970s Stan and Jan Berenstein did a series of cartoon books that were obviously meant for adults, with cartoon humans in them, not bears.
I did a search before I started this thread, but I didn’t do a thorough one. Sorry.
Actually, the first Berenstain Bear book came out in 1962, and a few more were published in the '60s.
Stan Berenstain had a comic that was published in Good Housekeeping and other mags from 1956-1990 called “It’s All in the Family.” A book of the same name was published in the late 50’s. Then “Lover Boy” came out. This is probably the book I was thinking of. There were other adult-themed books by the Berenstains. I wish I could see a picture from one of these. Funny how I remembered them looking like bears.