MAD's Maddest Artist Don Martin Bounces Back!

 

By Don Martin

A selection of Don Martin's comics, featuring mainly his characters Fester and Karbunkle. 

It opens with National Gorilla-Suit Day where Fester is upset about people celebrating National Gorilla-Suit Day by dressing up in gorilla suits. The conclusion: 

And A Visit To the Dentist which does not go well for poor Fester.

Followed by The Hardest Head in the World which is a satire of boxing movies. It stars Karbunkle as the man with the hardest head in the world. He becomes very famous but the high life causes him to lose his tone and his head shatters when a feather falls on it. But all is not lost, Fester puts him through a strict training programming. Karbunkle hardens up again and the story ends with him being dropped from a plane, head first, onto an Egyptian pyramid. 

Then Fester and Karbunkle star in Swan Lake. Fester appears as Prince Siegfried and Karbunkle as the Swan Maiden. Karbunkle presents Fester with an egg at the end when Fester was expecting a kiss.

Next is The Barber with Fester as a barber who unfortunately accidentally cuts off his client's nose.

After that is The Gourmet in which Fester eats a wet mop, thinking it is a delicious plate of spaghetti. How it ends: 

The final story is The Painters. Fester and Karbunkle are house painters and Fester ends up in the toilet.

These funnies are funny and crazy and fine examples of Don Martin's work. My copy of the book is dated 1963.  But even though the cartoons are more than sixty years old, they are still so much wacky fun to read and look at.