MAD Magazine was a staple in my youth, I loved it more than superhero comics. I used to own a bunch of magazines and MAD paperback books, all gone. And artist Mort Drucker was the main reason I loved MAD. R.I.P.


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Don Martin went in 2000, but Al Jaffee is still going at 99 y.o.

Back when Mad Magazine was actually funny.

I looked at a copy a couple of years ago and just about puked. As bad as, if not worse than, the decline of SNL. And for much the same reasons.

The dry goods clerk from Petticoat Junction worked for Mad Magazine?

My favorite work of his was the last page of "Balmy and Clod," a parody of the 1967 Bonnie and Clyde movie, showing the characters dressed as Nazis. If you keep looking at it you see more and more clever little details, like the human skin lampshade. I'd like to post it but haven't been able to find it on Bing Images.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
The dry goods clerk from Petticoat Junction worked for Mad Magazine?

That was Sam. I think they were cousins or something.

My favorite Mort Drucker work was the Mad Magazine parody of Patton....although they named it "Put-on".
I still remember it from my youth.

RIP Mort.

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Originally posted by bendable:
Don Martin went in 2000, but Al Jaffee is still going at 99 y.o.

It's going to take time, but IMHO these guys are eventually (even if only collectively) going to be recognized as worthy to be mentioned in the same breath as Norman Rockwell.

Crap. I always loved his work. He did an album cover for The Bears and you know it's his work.

Ahhh, Mad Magazine . Back in the early 60's my buddy and I would pool our money, ride to a little grocery store and buy a new snack called Fritos and the latest issue of Mad. Loved it as a kid.

To some, Mort Drucker was a caricaturist but as a cartoonist in my youth, Drucker was an artist. To the nth degree. It seemed there wasn't a person he couldn't draw faithfully, and no facial expression was beyond his ability. Truly, in my mind, one of the great artists of the 20th century. R. I. P.

I coveted that magazine. Wish I still had some of those early issues.

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Originally posted by Muddflap:

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Originally posted by parabellum:
The dry goods clerk from Petticoat Junction worked for Mad Magazine?

That was Sam. I think they were cousins or something.

Not to be confused with FuDRucker of burger fame.

Frank Cady played Sam Drucker on the TV show.

With all respect to Jack Davis, whose work on TV and movie parodies was superb, IIIORT DRUCKER was the best.