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Sunday, April 21, 2024

Original Book Cover Art: Don Martin Carries On

The original 1973 book cover art for Don Martin Carries On was sold on April 17 at Heritage Auctions. The illustration speaks for itself.

Don Martin
Heritage Auctions listing ended April 17, 2024

https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/covers/don-martin-mad-s-don-martin-carries-on-paperback-cover-illustration-original-art-warner-books-/a/322416-48163.s?ic2=mytracked-lotspage-lotlinks-12202013&tab=MyTrackedLots-101116#

Apparently, memories of Mad magazine inspired Heritage's copy writer to produce some truly awful prose:

Don Martin
Heritage Auctions item description
"This lampshaded lunatic is attempting to Lambada, but instead starts 'Poppin' and Lockin'.'" What?

I also have a few eBay images of the paperback for the scholars among you:

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Sunday, March 12, 2023

Sergio Aragonés: An Adolph S. Ochs First Day Cover

Adolph S. Ochs was the publisher of The New York Times from 1896 to 1935, a career which earned him a U.S. commemorative stamp issue in 1976. Mad magazine cartoonist Sergio Aragonés, asked to embellish a first day cover, showed that he too knows a bit about publishers.

Sergio Aragonés
eBay listing accessed March 12, 2023

https://www.ebay.com/itm/285052289453?

Sergio Aragonés
eBay item description

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Friday, March 10, 2023

Sergio Aragonés: A George M. Cohan First Day Cover

I have frequently expressed my perplexity at the phenomenon of first day covers signed by celebrities, particularly when the stamp and the signer have nothing to do with each other. Every now and then, though, something comes along that makes my day and it's usually because of the creativity of a cartoonist.

In 1990, when Mad's Sergio Aragonés was in all likelihood, attending a convention, he was asked, it would seem, to sign the 1978 first day cover commemorating the George M. Cohan centennial. He knew what to do with it.

Sergio Aragonés
eBay listing accessed March 10, 2023

https://www.ebay.com/itm/275712042532?hash=item4031b7e624%3Ag%3An3oAAOSwxa1j-ryI&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&campid=5338181027&customid=&toolid=10049

Sergio Aragonés
eBay item description

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Thursday, October 21, 2021

Peter Kuper's Spy vs. Spy: The Top Secret Files!—Signed

Congratulations to cartoonist Peter Kuper, the 2021 recipient of the Reuben Award for the category of Magazine/Newspaper Illustration. Among his many accomplishments, Kuper has been drawing the comic strip Spy vs. Spy for Mad magazine since 1997. The series was originally created by expatriate Cuban cartoonist Antonio Prohías and first appeared in Mad #60 dated January 1961. Spy vs. Spy has been a perennial feature of Mad since the days of the Cold War. In his current interview on the Cartoon Pad podcast, Kuper reveals that he has completed what he expects is the final new strip of the decades-long run. A signed book and souvenir drawing of the two spies back to back are herein archived as they appeared not all that long ago on eBay.