"Under the Waterfront!" - Wally Wood - Mad Monday!

"Comic Book Ads!" - Bill Elder - Mad Monday!

"Slow Motion!" - Jack Davis - Mad Monday!

"Poopeye!" - Bill Elder - Mad Monday!

Mad Mondays continues with Mad THE COMIC BOOK #21!

Harvey Kurtzman, Bill Elder, Popeye, Tarzan, Superman!!!!

As good as it ever got.

Enjoy!

Talk to you soon.

"Cowboy!" - Jack Davis - Mad Monday!

Jack Davis does DOUBLE duty!!

That's right, Mad #20 saw a SECOND story lavished with Davis' beautiful (do you all realize what grand importance and grandeur I slather on this word, BTW?) cartoons.

I love these kind of comparison things that Kurtzman would do.  Being from Montana (albeit 80 years after traditional time) I knew plenty of real cowboys.  Matt Dillon they weren't.  More like dirty humorless Festus'!

Jack Davis understood.

Talk to you soon.

"Paul Revere's Ride!" - Jack Davis - Mad Mondays!

Mad THE COMIC BOOK #20 and Jack Davis does an AWESOME cartooning turn that rivals the one we saw Wood do last week.

I wonder how many kiddies in the 1950's (or since) actually know stanzas of this Longfellow poem the bast from pouring over these pages.  

I'll bet a lot.  Cartoons can really suck a kids mind into the work at hand.

Mine too.

Talk to you soon.

"Sound Effects!" - Wally Wood - Mad Mondays!

Mad THE COMIC BOOK #20 and Harvey Kurtzman and Wally wood take on the role that sounds effects have.  Not in things like movies, TV and radio...but how that translates to the comic page when someone gets to figure how to onomatopoeia them!

This is Wood at his bigfoot cartoony best.  So much to admire and learn from in ALL of Wood's styles.

Wood is good!

I hope you learned something.  I KNOW you laughed.

Talk to you soon.

"Katchandhammer Kids!" - Bill Elder - Mad Mondays!

Mad THE COMIC BOOK #20, and Bill Elder and Harvey Kurtzman hit the newspaper comic strip well again for a spoof of "The Katzenjammer Kids".  This is chock full of chicken fat!...not just from Elder but from Kurtzman himself as he lampoons the pidgin-German language which I'm sure he was exposed to from childhood right up to when this comic came out in the med-1950's.  It's a little hard for us in present day homogenized America to pick up on, but second nature for Kurtzman, Elder and the kids of the day.

Take the effort though, like the broken French in a Pepe Le Pew cartoon...there's larfs a plenty therein!

Thanks to kind reader H. McNulty for correcting a couple of points in my original post...good to have friendly proof-readers out there to watch me back.  :)

Talk to you soon!