SUNDAY FUNNIES!! MAD #2's HEX

Here in Cobb County, Georgia, there are some big Braves' fans.  And the rest of us whether we like them or not, we are stuck with them.  The Braves Stadium is in Cobb County.  And we are paying in taxes for all the services that come with a stadium.

Georgia's own the late Jack Davis illustrated the story by the late editor  Harvey Kurtzman.

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SUNDAY FUNNIES!! TODAY SHOW Birthday is not TODAY

THE TODAY SHOW's 67th year birthday was early this previous week.  So, about five days behind and a dollar short  here is a lampoon of the show, done in MAD #26, drawn by Jack Davis and written by editor Harvey Kurtzman.

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SUNDAY FUNNIES!! HELP's You Know Who Will Be Killed!

Look what I found all wadded up:  Artist Jack Davis’s three pages  of YOU KNOW WHO IS GOING TO BE KILLED.  These pages are from HELP Magazine #2, 1960, edited by Harvey Kurtzman.  The pages are wrinkled, so you might have to bend over and squint your eyes:  Enjoy!

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SUNDAY FUNNIES!! You Know Who Gets Killed art by Jack Davis

From the pages of HELP magazine  #2, 1960.  Art by Georgia’s home-grown, corn-fed, the late Jack Davis.  The script by editor Harvey Kurtzman.  I think during this time Jack Davis was doing a balancing act between MAD and HELP.  He had a deep gratitude for competitors William Gaines, publisher of MAD, and Kurtzman.

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SUNDAY FUNNIES!! Baseball and the Mets

As you probably know the Braves #1 in their by 4 or 5 ahead, in their group standing.  Don't ask me what group. 
So it is time for me to hop onto the bandwagon.. 

This story originally appeared in HELP Magazine in 1963.  It is illustrated by Georgia's own, the late Jack Davis.  Jack also gets credit for the field research but I would think it was probably all nudged by editor Harvey Kurtzman.

Basics of Baseball Explained

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SUNDAY FUNNIES!! MAD #5, Kane Private Eue

Story by Harvey Kurtzman, cover by Will Elder, story art by Jack Davis

SUNDAY FUNNIES!! MAD's 2nd Issue, HEX

Written by editor Harvey Kurtzman and illustrated by Georgia's own Jack Davis.

We are not normally football fans.   But we are UGA fans and usually just want to know the bottom line if they won or lost  and their standing.

But this time, we watched the Rose Bowl game from beginning to the last second, a maybe 5 or 10 minutes beyond.  This game was so action packed and each side seem to have likeable characters or good-guys.  We hollered GO GO!  When a DAWG ran with the ball and let out whimpers when it wasn't going their way. 

It was so close and leap-frogging scoring , who wouldn't be excited?

Yesterday they either told it on TV or Anna read it to me that there is a devoted DAWG-fan couple that will not watch the game together because every time they have the DAWGS have lost.

With that in mind, with Anna and I watching  every play in the game and hooting and hollering, I will take credit for Anna and I being the main factor the DAWGS won.

SUNDAY FUNNIES: TWO-FISTED TALES: MUD

Now that we are looking at North Korea in a Karate Chop mind and North Korea looking us in the same manner and both sides talking big bombs, Nuclear Bombs, and the Mother of all Bombs, and after we blow each other to bits remember, KIM JONG-UN STARTED IT!

Here is another North Korea war story in 1951, from the Two-Fisted Tales MUD written by editor Harvey Kurtzman and illustrated by Jack Davis.

SUNDAY FUNNIES!! MAD's Casey at Bat

After watching the Braves' first game this year in their new stadium in Cobb County Friday and going along with all the excitement, I say, "Tim Lee, you are forgiven!"

In case you don't know Tim Lee, he is the Cobb County Commissioner Chairman who secretly arranged for the building of the new stadium and the Braves to move and kept it a secret until the deal was done.

It still makes my skin crawl to think somebody would make a huge deal like that, which will cause the Cobb County treasury to shift funds around and maybe look for more without making  sure it was OK with the Cobb County Citizens.

But it is done now, so, let us enjoy the game.

Which the Sunday Funnies this week is about ,coincidentally, baseball.

From the pages of MAD comicbook #6, written by editor Harvey Kurtzman and illustrated by Georgia born and cornfed Jack Davis..

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PLAY BALL!

Christmas Morning Notes

By the way, the above is another Christmas illustration by the late Jack Davis.

If you have seen my postings on Facebook or the blog Chicken-fat.com you might have noticed sometime near Christmas every year I mention the show on "MAMA" which was a sitcom of a poor Swedish immigrant family trying to adjust to living in America, one episode was the old mother country's wives' tales that animals could talk at midnight on Christmas Eve.

Last night Willow did not talk in human words at midnight, or at least not words  in the Young People's Dictionary:  They were all curse words.  She was cursing (and trembling) of those out in the darkness shooting firecrackers.

Which reminds me of another old country wives' tale:  Shooting guns and firecrackers on Christmas Eve to scare off evil spirits.  I think they have it in reverse:  The shooting off guns and firecrackers scare away the good spirits.

We watched the CHRISTMAS STORY last night, written by Jean Shepherd.  I remember, in the Navy, late into the night listening to Jean ramble on on his radio show.  He would talk about his memories in growing up.  If he ran out of things coming to mind he would take a break and play his kazoo until he remembered something else.

I have seen on TV the CHRISTMAS STORY many times.  It is played on several local TV stations back to back all day Christmas day.

One little scene in the CHRISTMAS STORY I think of year around.  It is so simple lit is profound.  And that is the little boy standing beside the star in the Santa line.  The little kid turns around to him one time and says, "I like Santa."  Not knowing what to say, the star say, "Un-huh".

Then minutes later the kid makes another simple statement saying, "I like blabla")  which takes the star off balance because he was running in his mind another problem... he again, focused in on the kid and said, "Un-huh."

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Jack Davis and UGA

Jack Davis died July 27th this year.  He was one of the original four MAD comicbook artists.  He was also a UGA DAWG artist, being a part of the alumni booster club. 

*It is unclear if he actually graduated from the University of Georgia or not.  He left his studies and joined the Navy during wartime, I don't know if he came back and completed his studies or not. 

SUNDAY FUNNIES!! MAD #27 College Football

Well, college football is here, and there, and there.
Illustrated by Jack Davis.

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