Showing posts with label DON MARTIN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DON MARTIN. Show all posts

Monday, August 19, 2024

MONDAY MORNING MACABRE NO. 100


These hilarious strips parodying Dracula were by the late, great Don Martin. They appeared in MAD #213 (March 1980) and were reprinted in MAD SUPER SPECIAL (Winter 1986) and again in MAD #33 (October 2023). For reasons unknown to me, the most recent reprint Warner Bros./DC Comics decided to take Martin's name off the title and replaced it with "Mad Looks At ... DRACULA" (?!). 

Don Martin deserves credit where credit is due, I say! They credited him in a couple of other strips in the same issue but not this one. They did leave his name on the last panel at least. Martin is of course well-known for his zany humor and off-the-chart sound effects.

Anyway, MAD is just a desiccated shell in my opinion. From what I understand the print edition is made up of reprints with scant new material and now only being distributed via the direct market and subscriptions. What a shame. Yes, Me Worry!



Come back this afternoon for more MAD-ness!

Monday, April 1, 2024

MONDAY MORNING MACABRE NO. 99




[Writer: Duck Edwing; Artist: Don Martin. Originally published in MAD #207, July 1979 - reprinted MAD #33, October 2023.]

Come back later today for more monsters!

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

DON MARTIN'S BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN


Don Martin (May 18, 1931 – January 6, 2000) is my favorite MAD magazine humorist. His single-page gags are some of the cleverest and hilarious you'll ever have the pleasure of coming across. Along with his goofy and distorted characters, sound effects like, "Shtoink!", "Bwang!", "Glorp!", and my fave, "Poit!", were the hallmarks of Martin's humor.

It was inevitable that Martin spoofed the monsters and shown here is an original drawing of the Bride of Frankenstein looking very happy with her new hubby. Also shown is an image of the "It's Alive!" scene in an issue of MAD.



The image was created with Don's trademark tool, felt marker, over graphite (un-erased) on bond stock. Image area, 7" x 9". It was done sometime in the 1990's.



NOTE: For those of you looking for more Don Martin sound effects, click HERE for the Don Martin Dictionary.