In Memoriam

[horrie hastings]

MAD Magazine's leading film and TV caricaturist Mort Drucker has passed away at 91.

This man was a pop-culture giant satirising 100s of shows and films from the 60s to late 00s.

MAD Magazine was my bible as a kid. Mort will be sorely missed.

Yes same here, it was like a bible to me back in the 70s and the 80s too, wish i would have kept a lot of my copies, their movie satires were brilliant and the artistry was spot on . Loved the fold in back covers too.

 

[horrie hastings]

Some of his art work

 

[The Mad Hatter]

I'm lucky I kept all mine. Then I managed to get mint US edition 1984-1992 (my era) about ten years ago at $5 a copy. They're now up at $25-30 some of them.

MAD was a welcome diversion. Always skewered culture and politics with a sense of wit and irreverence. Some of their predictions for the future were spot on too.

Funny...my kids were flicking through some issues the other day, devouring the Star Wars spoofs and laughing out loud. I thought it was cool.

Mort was one of the few left from the old school. Only Angelo Torres, Al Jaffee, Sergio Aragones and Paul Coker remain from the hey day of the Usual Gang of Idiots.

My "humour" stems from MAD and Blazing Saddles. My wife and I often refer to TV or movies by their satirised names with each other. Tonight, I revisit some old satires and raise a glass to one of comics greatest artists.

 

[horrie hastings]

I still have a copy from 1976 which had both Jaws and Earthquake in it , the art work and satire while still sticking true to the movies were amazing, still have copies of ones with Airport 75 and The Towering Inferno in it ( you can work out what era I grew up in lol) . I remember finding an old copy of one which had a parody called Hack Hack Sweet Has Been , it was the send up of Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, a movie I had never seen before but was fascinated in seeing it after reading the parody and I can say i list that movie in my all time favourites now.

 

[GongPanther]

MAD Magazine's leading film and TV caricaturist Mort Drucker has passed away at 91.

This man was a pop-culture giant satirising 100s of shows and films from the 60s to late 00s.

MAD Magazine was my bible as a kid. Mort will be sorely missed.

Remember Cracked Magazine? Nowhere as good as Mad, but gave it a run. It now has a humorous website.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

I still have a copy from 1976 which had both Jaws and Earthquake in it , the art work and satire while still sticking true to the movies were amazing, still have copies of ones with Airport 75 and The Towering Inferno in it ( you can work out what era I grew up in lol) . I remember finding an old copy of one which had a parody called Hack Hack Sweet Has Been , it was the send up of Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, a movie I had never seen before but was fascinated in seeing it after reading the parody and I can say i list that movie in my all time favourites now.

Ha! This issue lives beside my bed. Read that satire a 100 times...never seen the film. I'll have to now.

 

[Matua]

Remember Cracked Magazine? Nowhere as good as Mad, but gave it a run. It now has a humorous website.

I started watching the Cracked Youtube channel a couple of years back ... and then it folded about a month after. There's a Cracked podcast that is quite decent.

 

[horrie hastings]

Ha! This issue lives beside my bed. Read that satire a 100 times...never seen the film. I'll have to now.

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Ha Ha , thank you . Managed to find the whole thing on line, what a great send up of the cycle that was called Grand-Guignol or even better known as hag horror, i had forgotten about the Annette Funicello twist at the end lol. Mort Drucker's art work is brilliant, captures Bette Davis, Olivia De Havilland, Joan Crawford, Barabara Stanwyck and Joseph Cotten perfectly .

As for the hag horror cycle, a lot of the older Hollywood star ended up doing these type of movies, some were good, some were terrible but still lots of fun, probably the best two of the genre were What Ever Happened To Baby Jane and Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte.

The back story to Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte is almost as interesting as the movie, after the success of Baby Jane which starred Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, the director wanted to pair the two woman up again in another similar vehicle. Both signed on again but tension between Bette and Joan surfaced and boiled over while shooting the movie and Joan ended up signing herself into hospital to get away, Joan had already shot half the movie but claimed she was to ill to return so was replaced with Olivia De Havilland and most of the movie had to be re shot again.

 

[horrie hastings]

Remember Cracked Magazine? Nowhere as good as Mad, but gave it a run. It now has a humorous website.

Yes Cracked magazine was like the poor cousin of Mad but it still had some humorous moments.

 

[sensesmaybenumbed]

Tim Brooke Taylor

 

[nöyd]

Tim Brooke Taylor

no way

f**k

rip TBT

 

[Zoidberg]

Tim Brooke Taylor

Noooooo. Loved the Goodies. Stupid bloody corona.
RIP. Cheers for all the laughs

 

[Captain Apollo]

Unfortunately, Tim has been claimed by the corona virus - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04...taylor-dies-at-79-due-to-coronavirus/12143776

 

[sensesmaybenumbed]

Stirling Moss

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...stirling-moss-dies-aged-90-formula-one-racing

 

[The Mad Hatter]

RIP Danny Goldman aka the voice of Brainy Smurf.

 

[Generalzod]

First Blood what a movie RIP

 

[The Mad Hatter]

First Blood what a movie RIP

:-(

First Blood, FX 1 & 2, Cocoon, Gorky Park, Legal Eagles... he was one of those really good 1980's character actors with presence. RIP.

 

[horrie hastings]

:-(

First Blood, FX 1 & 2, Cocoon, Gorky Park, Legal Eagles... he was one of those really good 1980's character actors with presence. RIP.

Remember him mainly for Gorky Park and F/X but caught a bit of 10 the other night,didn't realise he was in that also playing the barman.

RIP Brian.

 

[mackdadday]

I shed a few tears for Brian last night. I started a game of D and D last week as Brian Dennehey. The greatest man who ever lived!!!

 

[The Mad Hatter]

RIP Florian Schneider.

Member of pioneering Krautrock band Kraftwerk, he was so influential in popularising electronic music, as well as innovating in the areas of drum machines & synthesisers, art performance and production techniques, that most bands post-1980 are indebted to Florian and his bandmate Ralf Hütter.

Florian spent near on 40 years with Kraftwerk before leaving the band in 2008, with an enviable legacy.

He sadly passed away after his 73rd birthday after a battle with cancer.

Personally, Kraftwerk's ambience, aural palette and futuristic sounds continue to inspire me as I use their works to soundtrack my own writing. Today, in honour of Florian, I'll be cranking up Autobahn, Trans-Europa Express and Die Mensch-Maschine.

This is my favourite song of Kraftwerk's too...