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Saturday 13 July 2013
HUMOUR IN A JUGULAR VEIN - PART ONE...
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Good one, never seen the first issue! Got loads of the collected paperbacks and a fair few issues from the 1960s, but the early comic-format will always be where it's "at" for MAD.
ReplyDeleteEven the MAD cash-in titles were great, stuff like Cracked, Get Lost and Bananas... All good fun.
MAD these days is hit-and-miss. The masses of adverts are the first obvious turn-off, but then they also have amazing stuff by Tom Bunk, Sergio Aragones, and still the odd bit of Spy Vs. Spy. It's a comic/magazine that I'll always have a special place for.
Thing about the ads, THB, is that it helps pay for the colour within the mag these days. It's still number one in a field of one, I reckon. Shame it doesn't sell more.
ReplyDeleteAh, the great Jack Davis - does his art ever remind me of my school days!; cards, stickers and a particularly lurid purple book cover with ghastly creatures all over it. Loved it. The MAD I remember was full of Arogones' marginal cartoons, Don Martin's angular characters, Spy v Spy, the fold in picture and especially the art of Mort Drucker.
ReplyDeleteAh, Phil - Mort Drucker - now you're talking.
ReplyDelete"Number one in a field of one" sadly applies to a lot of comics now.
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean, but it doesn't so much apply to a 'lot of comics' as the only one of its kind left standing - The Beano. That truly is 'one in a field of one', sadly.
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