A two-parter went up at 1-900-HOTDOG, when my buddy Dennard Dayle asked me to join him in mocking vintage Camel cigarette ads, and Camels II: The Commercial Cwest for Cancer. Then something funny happened…after googling one of the acrobats in the ads and finding almost nothing about her, I was stumped to crack a joke. I ended up winging a paragraph about her name being a marketing construct. (To a degree, the Googling confirmed this, as it was a stage name). And then…later that week, got an email from a marketer with that same name. Sometimes the universe is small, especially when it can prove me wrong about everything.
Camel Cigarettes: Healthy Nerves, Pt. 1
Camel Cigarettes: Healthy Nerves, Pt. 2: The T-Zone
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Dennard and I had fun working on this one, at one point across the city from bakery to bar, hammering out how we wanted to shape it. Barring a flurry of texts about the spark that would ignite Civil War II: Camel Cigarettes Campaign reaching us as we strode a beautiful Central Park, it was a great day.
Back in college I pulled some cigarette/cigar ads of equal atrociousness out of the newspaper archives. If I find them, I’ll scan them and add them here. Funny how the things that adorn your wall for a decade end up an article today, and you’re not even the one who pitched them.