Parody Will Get You Nowhere

 

Good news, The Sincerest Form of Parody is back in print from Fantagraphics!

I borrowed the heck out of this from the library when it first came out.  If you were a fan of the Russ Cochrane Mad and Panic collections back in the day then you should love this.

Pics Or It Didn't Happen

 

I'm reading Dirty Pictures right now and the thing that leaps out at me is how young everybody was.

When I first became aware of Crumb and the gang it was the early 90's, post-Raw post-Weirdo, and all of these guys had been pretty much accepted by the mainstream and entering elder statesmen territory. I think I mentioned it on here before, but the Rick Griffin obituary in Surfer magazine was my first introduction to the world of comix, and by then Zap was firmly in Boomer-nostalgialand.  It's fun to read about all these legends as scrappy young fanzine kids, all trying to emulate their heroes John Stanley, Carl Barks, and The Usual Gang of Idiots.

I'm not looking forward to the inevitable personality clashes and infighting, but for now it's a really interesting look back, well worth a read.

Cracked, Baby!

The Cracked Magazine Twitter account posts classics sometimes, like this one by Lou Silverstone and Gary Fields:

 

Over Hill And Under Blecch

"The Slobbit: The Adaptation's a Slog" by Desmond Devlin and  Tom Richmond

Mad Magazine June 2014  (Issue #527)

Seven Jawas

From "A Mad Look at Star Wars" by Sergio Aragones

Elementary

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Shermlock Shomes!" from Mad #7

 

 

 

Yeek!

In celebration of the return of Alan Moore's Supreme, here are some great Supreme moments from Siskoid's Blog of Geekery:

Squeak the Supremouse

Szazs the Sprite Supreme



Supremelvin





The Most Shocking Thing I Ever Heard Of

From Mad Magazine #32, it's Nansy Duck:

Art by the great Wallace Wood.

 

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

Mad Magazine's "Reality World"

By Larry Siegel and Al Jaffee



Pole Position

Dig that crazy totem pole:

Panel from "Dragged Net," Mad Magazine #3, 1953

by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder

Hey Kids... What Time Is It?

"Howdy Dooit" from Mad Magazine #18

by Will Elder and Harvey Kurtzman

That thing! That waddling blob coming towards us!

"What's for Lunch... Supper?" Written by Tom Yakutis, Pencilled by Bill White, Inked by Larry Mayer. Cover by Todd Kurasowa and Scott Shaw!

As a guy married to a "foodie" I related to this story a little too closely. Too many late nights in the kitchen with the plate of leftovers have given me a physique just like Donald's.

The cover is an homage to the cover of Mad Magazine #1 (Batman: Gotham Adventures #13 also parodied this famous cover). Funny stuff!

Mickey Rodent!

From Mad Magazine #19, 1955. Written by Harvey Kurtzman, Art by Will Elder.
Read the entire story here.