Who knows Fester Bestertester and Karbunkle?

[BurtWorm]

[AngryYoungMan]

1. ME! ME! ME!

I LOVE all that Don Martin stuff. Especially the earlier stuff with the even crazier drawing style.

Where'd you get that image?

[BurtWorm]

3. It was at someone's blog. I went looking for Don Martin images

because all of a sudden lately I've been thinking about those crazy paperbacks full of Fester and Karbunkle stories, which used to give me hours of escapist pleasure when I was a kid. I have no idea why they've been coming to mind lately.

[OneBlueSky]

4. ME TOO! ME TOO! ME TOO!

I used to read Mad religiously, and I had several books of Don Martin cartoons . . . don't know what happened to them, but I had most of them pretty well memorized at one point . . . Don Martin's stuff was great, and I can't tell you how often I laughed out loud at some of it . . .

[MrSlayer]

2. Great stuff.

I used to have all the books.

[BurtWorm]

5. The sound effects were the best!

[A HERETIC I AM]

6. I only have one thing to say on this thread.....

"POTRZEBIE!"


ok ok ok....i have another thing.....
Martins "sound effects"

"Thworp"
"zooorp"
Kloornkk"

the man is a genius

[jmowreader]

14. Or was, anyway

He has passed.

[TreasonousBastard]

7. Don Martin was the reason I bought MAD.

[Bridget Burke]

8. So, when is National Gorilla-Suit Day?

And when can we buy a leather bound volume of the greatest works of Don Martin?

Used to have all the old Mad paperbacks, too.

[BurtWorm]

9. PWOING!

[BurtWorm]

10. FSHPLAP!

[BurtWorm]

11. ÖRGH!

[BlackVelvetElvis]

12. I bought all of Martin's books as a kid

I still have them. They are so worn and loved.

[gmoney]

15. Poofa-DOOM!

Yeah, old Don certainly was a brilliant artist.

And am I the only person who thought Dave Berg's cartoons were boring and boringly drawn? Although he did draw skimpily dressed women from time to time...

[Lisa]

13. "if only this dang toe would stop hurting!"

GAAAAHH!

(and far away, the Abominable Snowman hears the echo ...)

[roguevalley]

16. oh lord, thank you. I *LOVED* and still *LOVE* them. What a genius.

another genius is the guy who writes Herman and the
guy who writes Foot Rot flats.

[5thGenDemocrat]

17. Who could forget the guy

Who gave us "The National Long-Distance Spitting Competition"?
John
I'm 47. I grew up on MAD, and so did everyone else I knew.