mAkIn’ LInKS # 265
Now universally recognized as one of the great caricaturists of the 20th century, one forgets just how much product that Mort Drucker has turned out over five plus decades. It’s all good. Here’s Mad‘s Easy Rider spoof.
http://grantbridgestreet.blogspot.com/2010/09/sleazy-riders-by-larry-siegel-and-mort.html
Terry Beatty shows us some of little-remembered artist Jimmy Thompson’s Heavens to Betsy (as well as a little of his Robotman) over at Scary Terry’s Blog.
http://terrybeatty.blogspot.com/2010/09/forgotten-cartoonists-jimmy-thompson.html
Here’s a cover gallery for the first nine issues of National Lampoon, the once influential magazine showcase for some amazing comics parodies as well as some amazing comics by the likes of Vaughn Bode, Shary Fleniken, Ralph Reese, Gahan Wilson and Jeff Jones.
http://thewarriorscomicbookden.blogspot.com/2010/08/national-lampoon-1-9-1970.html
Finally today, here’s a complete story from the great Lou Fine’s late fifties-early sixties newspaper strip Adam Ames, a soap opera strip with a mystery bent and some of the most realistic strip art of its day.
http://allthingsger.blogspot.com/2010/09/is-there-anything-finer-thursday-story.html

— booksteve


































