Click HERE TO VIEW THE CARTOON.  When I was growing up in the country, I used to love to explore abandoned farm houses.  They would stand alone and weather-beaten like a peice of stonehenge in the middle of the fields,  crops growing around them.  My brother, myself, and some kids we curled with (I know, my upbringing was real rural) managed to boost ourselves up into the attic of one old house, and there we found two romance comics from 1953, with their advertisements for diet candy and Charles Atlas’ fitness plan.  I still have them, and after recently reading some old MAD Magazine ad spoofs, and seeing Chris Ware’s brilliant take on old-timey ads, I dug up these old comics and tried my hand at ad spoofs too.   And, in defense of my mean tattoo advertisement, I have plenty of tattos myself.   After writing the “sunburst and zodiac sign” slag, I noticed ‘zackly that tattoo on the shoulder of my roommate.  He refused to believe it was a coincidence, but it really was.  Poor, sweet fella.