Don Martin Fans Check In Here!

[CO Liberal]

SPLORK!!!!!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. My favorite Don Martin sound effects:

"tikka-tikka-tikka-tikka-tikka-bing!"--typing on a manual typewriter

"foof!" --lighting a gas burner

:7

[gorrister]

2. Don Martin was great

I still buy Mad magazine. Have a pretty big collection.

[SideshowScott]

3. PLOINK!

God i miss that mans art...He was one of the greats

[TheMightyFavog]

4. Fwabadap!!!!

End of Line.

[ronzo]

5. Nice!

:toast:

[Archae]

6. Squilch!

(Sound effect of person hitting the pavement after jumping off a building) :crazy:

[dbt]

7. Fagroon!

(sound of skyscraper falling over sideways!)

Splort,
:crazy:
dbt

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Foinsap!

Ah, I miss the old cartoons... hours and hours of giggly fun as a child reading MAD and Don Martin's books.

Lance Parketrip, Noted Notary Public


Evil old woman: "Ha ha! And you can't do anything to me becuase you're superhero code of ethics forbids you hitting a woman."

Lance: "You're right, we can't hit women. But there's nothing that says we can't shoot them!" (bang bang bang bang bang bang)

[Don_G]

9. The New York Times

Or the "New Yorker" should have grabbed his talent a long time ago.

[non sociopath skin]

10. Ah, yes, what a one-off....

Loved his stuff. Is Mad still worth reading?

Fonebone the Skin

[trogdor]

16. Almost.

It's gone commercial, though. It just isn't the same.

[Aristus]

11. Another favorite sound-effect:

A boxer puching a punching bag:

Fwipadda-swipadda-fwipadda-swipadda!

[BurtWorm]

12. I had a Don Martin thread a few weeks ago.

An homage to Fester Bestertester and Karbuncle.

[Bridget Burke]

13. His Obituary (Salon, January 2000)

"Remembering the Mad magazine cartoonist who created characters like Fester Bestertester and Karbuncle, yet still had the time to invent National Gorilla Suit Day."

http://dir.salon.com/people/obit/2000/01/15/martin/index.html

The link to his work is dead, although there are other sources on the web. All his books are out of print. Time for a big retrospective volume!

[CanuckAmok]

14. He had a classified ad running in the New Yorker for years...

...selling original art. Damn, I wish I'd bought one.

[CanuckAmok]

15. "Gad, it's Joe Fonebone! He's apparently been run over by a steamroller!"

Of all the Glektopods of the Floonian Age, Don Martin was certainly the most Brapanoid.