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Don Martin (May 18, 1931 – January 6, 2000) was an American cartoonist whose best-known work was published in Mad from 1956 to 1988. [1] [2] His popularity and prominence were such that the magazine promoted Martin as "Mad's Maddest Artist."
The Simpsons producer Bill Oakley said, "The Simpsons has transplanted Mad magazine. Basically everyone who was young between 1955 and 1975 read Mad, and that's where your sense of humor came from. And we knew all these people, you know, Dave Berg and Don Martin—all heroes, and unfortunately, now all dead."
Captain Klutz did not lead a luxurious life, being reduced to homelessness at various times. (In one adventure, "my new airy apartment" was a park bench; in another, he hoped an invention would give him super-speed, so he could get a pizza delivery job.)
The humor magazine that began in 1952 as a comic book making fun of other comic books soon became an institution for mocking authority in all spheres of life, from TV, movies and advertising, to ...
Don Martin - (Mad Magazine, Captain Klutz, Fonebone) Edgar Martin - (Boots and Her Buddies) Harry B. Martin - (Weatherbird) S. Carlisle Martin - (Weatherbird) Mark Martin; Cal Massey - (worked for Timely/Atlas Comics, St. John's Publishing) Fran Matera - (continued Steve Roper and Mike Nomad) Joe Matt -
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In April Al Jaffee, the cartoonist who gave Mad magazine its iconic back page by creating the publication’s fold-in feature, died at the age of 102. In 1964, Jaffee’s fold-in was featured for ...
Martin's wild physical comedy would eventually make him the signature artist of the magazine. When Martin first joined Mad, he employed a nervous, scratchy art style, but this developed into a rounder, more cartoony look. Many of his cartoons used similar expositional titles (e.g., "One Exceedingly Fine Day at the Beach," "On the Elevator ...