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Mad About Comic Strips - 2003
Cover Artist:
Jack Rickard
from
#138
A Sunday Comic Section We'd Like To See
(8 page bonus)
(see
The Worst from Mad #4
for all the artists and writers)
Contents
Introduction by
Ted Rall
Sergio Aragones
Drawn-Out Dramas
**various places around the magazine
If Famous Authors Wrote the Comics
(written by
Frank Jacobs
/
Wally Wood
art)
The Comic Strip Characters' Christmas Party
(written by
Gary Belkin
/
Wally Wood
art)
If Five Comic Strip Cartoonists Interpreted the
Age-Old Riddle: "Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?"
(written by
Gary Belkin
/
Wally Wood
art)
The Mad "Comic" Opera
(written by
Frank Jacobs
/
Wally Wood
art)
Little Orphan Melvin!
(written by
Harvey Kurtzman
/
Wally Wood
art)
Manduck The Magician
(written by
Harvey Kurtzman
/
Will Elder
art)
Gasoline Valley!
(written by
Harvey Kurtzman
/
Will Elder
art)
Katchandhammer Kids!
(written by
Harvey Kurtzman
/
Will Elder
art)
The Anatomy of the Human Body Based on the Comics
(written by
Frank Jacobs
/
Jack Rickard
art)
(idea by
Sergio Aragones
)
If Comic Strip Characters Were as Old as Their Strips
(written by
Earle Doud
/
Wally Wood
art)
Don Martin
's Guide to Some Very Obscure
Comics Sound Effects
(written by
Don (Duck) Edwing
)
If Comic Characters Were Psychoanalyzed
(written by
Frank Jacobs
/
Bob Clarke
art)
Mad's All-Inclusive Do-It-Yourself
Peanuts
Comic Strip
(written by
Frank Jacobs
/
Jack Rickard
art)
If Famous Movies Were Made Into Comic Strips
(
Russ Cooper
)
If the Real World of Today Caught Up With the Comics
(written by
Frank Jacobs
/
George Woodbridge
art)
Starchie
(written by
Harvey Kurtzman
/
Will Elder
art)
Prince Violent!
(written by
Harvey Kurtzman
/
Wally Wood
art)
Bringing Back Father!
(written by
Harvey Kurtzman)
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(
Will Elder
and
Bernie Krigstein
art)
Poopeye!
(written by
Harvey Kurtzman
/
Will Elder
art)
Final Episodes of
Peanuts
You Never Saw
(written by
John Prete
/
Jack Syracuse
art)
Comic Strip Classics in Their Full Strip Form
(written by
Al Jaffee
/
Walt F. Rosenberg
art)
If the World's Great Painters Drew the Comics
(written by
Frank Jacobs
/
Jack Rickard
art)
If
Blondie
Entered the Real Work Place
(written by
Stan Hart
/
Angelo Torres
art)
The Comics Page of
L'Osservatore Romano
(written by
Desmond Devlin
/
Gary Hallgren
art)
When Today's Controversial Issues Totally Invade the Comics
(written by
Frank Jacobs
/
Angelo Torres
art)
The Congressional Record Comic Pages
(written by
Don (Duck) Edwing
/
Sam Viviano
art)
When Other Comic Strips Start Using the "Far Side" Formula
(written by
Charlie Kadau
/
Bob Clarke
art)
A Mad Look Back at the Bush Family Circus
(written by
John Prete
/
Jack Syracuse
art)
Obituaries For Comic Strip Characters
(written by
Frank Jacobs
/
Steve Smallwood
art)
Fold-In --
What beloved, legendary ball player is a poor bet to make the Hall of Fame?
(
Al Jaffee
)
Comic Strip Cursing Symbols to Match a Given Situation
(written by
Henry Clark
/
Bob Clarke
art)
Dick Tracy, Bachelor
(written by
Stan Hart
/
Angelo Torres
art)
Commemorative Stamps for More Recent Comic Strips
(
Steve Greenberg
)
The Dysfunctional Family Circus
(written by
Desmond Devlin
/
George Woodbridge
art)
One Day in the Comics Suburbs
(written by
Arnoldo Franchioni
/
Jack Rickard
art)
When the
Dilbert
Cast Invades Other Comic Strips
(written by
Desmond Devlin
/
Steve Smallwood
art)
Get Mutt. You'll Pay.
(written by
Charlie Kadau
/
Angelo Torres
art)
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