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Category: Cartooning
MAD Goes SKROINCH! FWAK! BWEEP!
The word is out that MAD Magazine will soon be no more. Two more new issues will be published, and then some reprints done up to finish off mail order subscriptions, and that’ll be the end.
This isn’t unexpected, of course, but it’s sad to see the disappearance of yet another formerly grand outlet for great cartooning. As a matter of historical note, MAD was the last remaining vestige of what had been Entertaining Comics.
Independence Day With Dick, Jane, and Sally
Cartoony Looney – 100
Nothing special for #100, just a random doodle.
Tyer and Tyer Again
Two more 1950’s Terrytoons with Jim Tyer’s unique brand of wackiness mixed in with the more conventional work of other animators.
Several generations of Terrytoons employees came to know Paul Terry’s oft-repeated motto: “Disney is the Tiffany’s in this business, and I am the Woolworth’s.”
Of Mice and Magic, A History of American Animated Cartoons, by Leonard Maltin – Revised and Updated Edition, 1980
Tyered Out Yet?
“How to Relax” — A Terrytoon with a dark take on modern living, in good video quality, featuring some of Jim Tyer’s trademark “all over the place” animation.