More of Dan DeCarlo’s “My Friend Irma”

 

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Lots O’ Laffs!

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The Polling of America

  1 out of 4 Americans believe something bad will happen to them if they sneeze. 4 out of 5 doctors recommend eating a diet low in carbs, high in bran and Styrofoam, extremely low in grass-roots organizing and middle of the range in tofu that resembles the President of the United States. Percentage of [...]

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Jack Davis At the Movies, Part One

Jack Davis, like the other Mad artists, was a jack of all trades. Not only did he produce a wealth of outstanding comic book material, but he also did quite a bit of other freelance work. Ads, album covers and probably most notable of all, movie posters. During the 60s and 70s, Jack Davis illustrated dozens of movie posters [...]

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Mad Men of Comics

Harvey Kurtzman knew funny. As a cartoonist he keenly deployed slapstick, parody and satire in ways that were not only hilarious, but groundbreaking as well. In addition, he was a gifted ringleader, someone who could harness the best talent from the grindhouse that was the comics industry at the time. With fellow artists, Will Elder, Jack Davis, Al Jaffe, Wally [...]

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Lester Bester, the World’s Greatest Entertainer Part Two

Lester Bester was a comedian who had his own TV program in the late 1950′s early 60′s. It was a variety show called, “It’s the Show, With Lester Bester”. It followed the same tradition of “Your Show of Shows” etc. He began his career as a  young kid working during the dying years of  theVaudeville, and continued honing his [...]

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Making Strangers Laugh

Paul Merrill, a buddy of mine and a nationally renowned comedian, will be headlining a show this Friday, March 21st. I did the poster. And although Paul doesn’t usually have a giant red nose like the one pictured above, he does however have one when he’s drunk, or when he has transformed into Jimmy Durante, or a WereHobo (it’s a creature, [...]

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