By Don Martin(1931 – 2000) Taken from “Mad’s Maddest Artist Don Martin Steps Out
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The Palaeontologist, by Don Martin (1931 - 2000)
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The Paleontologist
Strangely
post on January 17th, 2011
Posted in Buddhism Tags:Artist , ballet , Cartoon , creative , dinosaur , Don Martin , Humour , Mad , Maddest , magazine , Palaeontologist , palaeontology , Paleontologist , paleontology
Posted in Buddhism Tags:Artist , ballet , Cartoon , creative , dinosaur , Don Martin , Humour , Mad , Maddest , magazine , Palaeontologist , palaeontology , Paleontologist , paleontology
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Don Martin again because I’m getting too serious
Strangely
post on March 11th, 2008
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The Palaeontologist, by Don Martin (1931 - 2000)
The state of the world and stuff has been getting me down again recently, so just for me, I’m putting my favourite one-page gag of all time up again as a post.
It’s by the late great Don Martin who was a major dude at Mad Magazine for many years. A lot of the magazine was trite and boring but Don Martin was always good and this cartoon in particular, for me, is a killer.
The Paleontologist, by Don Martin (1931 – 2000)
It gets me every time and then the world’s alright again.
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Don Martin
Strangely
post on August 10th, 2007
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Posted in Buddhism Tags:Artist , ballet , Bizarre , Cartoon , creative , dinosaur , Don Martin , Humour , JAN , Mad , Mad Magazine , Maddest , magazine , Palaeontologist , palaeontology , Paleontologist , paleontology , sense , SP , Success , WHOSE
Don Martin
The Paleontologist
The Palaeontologist, by Don Martin (1931 - 2000)
This gets me every time!
It’s by the late Don Martin, whose obituary is here
Don Martin Dictionary! (it’s worth a click)
Don Martin Dictionary
Don Martin, one of the premier cartoonists at Mad Magazine in it’s heyday, had his own style (which every cartoonist must have to be successful anyway, of course), the key points of which were the ‘hinged’ feet and hands, ‘lightbulb’ ideas at every possible opportunity, a whole dictionary of custom sounds expressed as text and a wickedly fabulous, bizarrely creative, sometimes very dark, sense of humour.
The Paleontologist above has all of that…the exclamation marks of surprise, the marvellously drawn caricature so that you can tell it’s an “old style” paleontologist by the drawing alone, the sound effects and sweat of anticipation, the black humour as he’s squashed followed by the realisation of the incongruity that the squasher is a ballet dancing dinosaur.
Updated 5 Jan 2009 (SP)
