MAD ARTIST MORT DRUCKER PASSES AWAY...

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Sad to learn that artist MORT DRUCKER, for many years (decades in fact) MAD's best movie and TV parody caricaturist, has passed away at the age of 91.  No doubt there will be other bloggers who delve into far more detail about Mort's life and career, but for the moment, in pictorial tribute to him, here's one of my favourite film series parodies that he illustrated back in the early 1970s.  Brilliance!

THE STARK TRUTH - OL' POINTY CHIN IS BACK!

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Currently available to buy from The TREASURY Of BRITISH COMICS website shop is The INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES Of JANUS STARK Volume II, collecting the strips of the Victorian escapologist (formerly known as JONAS CLARKE), originally published weekly in the revamped SMASH! in the late '60s/early '70s.  These stories were among Britain's finest comic strips of the period, and they still hold up astoundingly well today, 50 years later.  New as well as old readers are bound to be highly entertained by them, and you can still obtain the first book from the same source.  Buy 'em both today!  And roll on Volume III.

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(Y'know, I've always thought that if Janus had a squarer-shaped head, he'd be almost the double of the early SUB-MARINER.  Whaddya think?)