Cleopatra's hair

Here's a sequence from the great comic strip, ALLEY OOP by V. T. Hamlin.

The time traveling Oop is sent back to Egypt in Cleopatra's time to solve a mystery for Doc Wonmug and Oscar Boom...what exactly was the color of Cleopatra's hair?

Daily strips are from July 20 to August 31, 1964.

Copyright ©1964 NEA, Inc.

MAD'S maddest...

After working for MAD magazine for three decades, Don Martin left in a dispute over royalties. He went to CRACKED magazine, then had his own short-lived DON MARTIN MAGAZINE in 1993. These are color pages from the first issue of that magazine.

The slipcased, two-volume set, THE COMPLETELY MAD DON MARTIN, which reprints every page Martin did for MAD, and which was originally priced at $150.00, is now being sold for the amazing price of $25.00. You can find it from various booksellers that handle remaindered books. This gets my highest recommendation. Its large-size pages show off Martin's crazy artwork to its best advantage.

Martin died of cancer in 2000, age 68.

DON MARTIN MAGAZINE © 1993 Don Martin

"He's with me." More Water On The Brain by Vip

Vip, Virgil Partch, had a way of looking at things in quite a twisted way. That's why we love him.

These are cartoons from his 1945 book, WATER ON THE BRAIN. If you want more, go to earlier postings, here, and here.

As a special treat, at the bottom is a scan of an original Sunday page of BIG GEORGE, Vip's successful syndicated newspaper comic.

WATER ON THE BRAIN Copyright © 1945 Robert M. McBride & Co