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MAD Cartoonist Don Martin Dies

Posted by emmett on from the onomatopoeia dept.

inbred writes "Don Martin, longtime Mad magazine cartoonist who drew an assortment of wild-haired characters, punctuating the grotesque action with wacky words like SPLOP! and POIT!, has died. He was 68."

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  1. Re:new catagory please by mindstrm · · Score: 4

    It serves to reinforce that you are GROWING UP. (That is you, in general, not you as an individual, as you are obviously not growing up)

    Many readers here I bet are 25 or under....
    And lots of the people we grew up looking up to are starting to get rather old.. so it serves to let us know that we are mortal, and that soon we will be those icons for the generations to come.

  2. Some of his stuff. by Asparfame · · Score: 4
    Well, I was trying to jog my memory as to which MAD art Martin did, so I went a-hunting. This is the best I found. It's got about 15 comics. The ones with dialogue have been translated into German, but most of them don't have speach anyway.

    The site is here: http://members.tripod.de/mad_2/donmar tin.html

    Funny stuff.

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    There's no reason for a sig here.

  3. Let us all observe a moment of silence... by meckardt · · Score: 4





    BOINK!
    Okay, moments up. You may all resume your normal, crass, undeserving lives.