Showing posts with label Jack Davis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jack Davis. Show all posts

Friday, February 23, 2024

Friday Fun THIS MAGAZINE IS CRAZY "Fact Realism vs TV is 'em Real"

Old West humor, illustrated by the legendary Jack Davis...
...but NOT from MAD!
It's from Charlton's This Magazine is CRAZY! V4N8, a MAD imitator which lasted only seven issues!
Both as a color comic and a b/w magazine, MAD inspired many imitators.
Some, like Cracked, are going even today (albeit on-line, not in print).
Others, like This Magazine is CRAZY, were short-lived, but able, from time to time, to get work from MAD's regular contributors, almost all of whom were freelancers.
This particular piece from 1959 apparently was a satirical response to TV's sanitizing the images of both cowboys and Indians in ongoing series.
Westerns were the most popular scripted genre at the time, dominating almost half of both the prime time and syndicated schedules.
The writer is, regrettably, unknown but it could be Davis himself, who utilized this format in both issues of his own short-lived color comic humor anthology Yak Yak, as seen HERE and HERE!
The writer is, regrettably, unknown.
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Friday, June 30, 2023

Friday Fun YAK YAK "Hysterical Historical Quizzical Quiz"

Since it's the 4th of July weekend...
...we thought we'd go with a post with a historical theme and let writer/artist Jack Davis test your knowledge with this (astonishingly) never-reprinted feature from the first appearance of Yak Yak in Dell's Four Color Comics #1186 (1961)!
So, how did you do?

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Friday, May 5, 2023

Friday Fun YAK YAK "How to Identify Road Nuts!"

"Road rage" is not a new phenomenon...

...although, as shown on TV shows like Road Wars, it's gone to new extremes!

Though this feature (written and illustrated by the legendary Jack Davis) from Dell's Four Color Comics: Yak Yak #1348 (1962) is over sixty years old, it's as applicable today as it was then!

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Monday, March 27, 2023

Monday Madness YAK YAK "How to Bat 400!"

Winding up our month of baseball-related comics...
...is the legendary Jack Davis' take on how to be the greatest hitter in whatever league (major or minor) you're in!
Follow the advice in this never-reprinted feature from Dell's Four Color #3196: Yak Yak, and you'll either win the league's batting championship or qualify to run as the Republican Presidential candidate!
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Friday, May 21, 2021

Friday Fun YAK YAK "Romance vs Realism"

...now here's the second, and sadly, final part of the series!
Dell gave MAD mainstay Jack Davis his own title, to do with as he pleased.
The series, Yak Yak (subtitled "A Pathology of Humor") only ran two issues, but they were pure Davis, who wrote, penciled, inked, and colored the whole project as well as providing painted covers for both issues!

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Friday, November 6, 2020

Friday Fun / CoronaVirus Comics MAD "Failing Health Magazine"

Now that Halloween is over, we return to making fun of a real-life horror...
...by showing those who over-react to the slightest medical problem (and some that don't really exist) in a never-reprinted feature from EC's MAD Magazine #159 (1973)!
Scripted by Tom Koch and illustrated by the legendary Jack Davis, this was the sort of spoof MAD did better than anybody else in the humor mag business!
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The only place this story's been re-presented, albeit in digital low-res!
(Make sure you get the revised 2012 version for as complete a collection as possible)

Friday, September 4, 2020

Friday Fun YAK YAK "How to Win Friends"

Sometimes, we need to get away from current events...
...and just enjoy a good laugh, courtesy of legendary writer/artist Jack Davis!
From Dell's Four-Color Comics #1186 (1961)
Dell gave MAD mainstay Jack Davis his own title in the Four Color Comics series, to do with as he pleased.
The series, Yak Yak (subtitled "A Pathology of Humor") only ran two issues, but they were pure Davis, who wrote, penciled, inked, and colored the whole project as well as providing painted covers for both issues!
It's never been reprinted, except for excerpts here and there.
Hopefully, somebody will do so in the near future...
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Monday, March 2, 2020

Monday Madness YAK YAK "TV for All!"

Those of you who grew up with a smart phone in your hand...
...will probably not understand a single thing (either in terms of technology or pop culture) in this feature about living in a household with only one screen and a limited selection of programming!
Ironically, cross-genre programming has become something of a staple in our media-dominated world!
Dell gave MAD mainstay Jack Davis his own title, to do with as he pleased.
The series, Yak Yak (subtitled "A Pathology of Humor") only ran two issues, but they were pure Davis, who wrote, penciled, inked, and colored the whole project as well as providing painted covers for both issues!
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Friday, January 3, 2020

Friday Fun YAK YAK "Drama vs Realism"

After hearing of recent events in the Middle East, I'm struck by the disparity of info presented by con and lib media...
...so to keep my spirits up, I decided to run this never-reprinted piece showing the stark difference between how each side portrays a given situation.
I leave it to the reader to decide which (drama or reality) is which (con or lib)...
Dell gave MAD mainstay Jack Davis his own title, to do with as he pleased.
The series, Yak Yak (subtitled "A Pathology of Humor") only ran two issues, but they were pure Davis, who wrote, penciled, inked, and colored the whole project as well as providing painted covers for both issues!
The next (and final issue) had another Drama vs Realism piece.
You'll see that next Friday!
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