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One fine evening in the castle [Don Martin]
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Sonnenblume discuss.tchncs.de e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de
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RustyLog fedinsfw.app RustyLog@fedinsfw.app
Joined: 2026-06-09
#2 · Quote Reply

That's completely MAD!

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🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 pawb.social Kolanaki@pawb.social
Joined: 2024-10-06
#3 · Quote Reply

That's completely MAD!

I thought I recognized this. I must have had an issue it was printed in.

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tetris11 feddit.uk tetris11@feddit.uk
Joined: 2025-02-17
#4 · (edited) Quote Reply

Fuck that's dark

Also I love how I could hear the PAF sound in my head. I wonder how old that word is

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aldhissla piefed.world aldhissla@piefed.world
Joined: 2025-08-26
#5 · Quote Reply

I miss MAD Magazine...

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candyman337 piefed.ca candyman337@piefed.ca
Joined: 2026-02-20
#6 · Quote Reply

Damn. Guess he didn't make it.

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nocturne slrpnk.net nocturne@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2025-06-13
#7 · Quote Reply

I miss MAD Magazine...

It is still in publication. The last time I looked at one was 2019 sometime, did not really read it though.

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AFK BRB Chocolate (CA version) lemmy.ca AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-07-10
#8 · Quote Reply

Would always welcome more Don Martin here

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aldhissla piefed.world aldhissla@piefed.world
Joined: 2025-08-26
#9 · Quote Reply

It is still in publication. The last time I looked at one was 2019 sometime, did not really read it though.

You're right, I've misinterpreted this move.

Cheers for correcting me. I should check out the "new" issues.

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gedaliyah lemmy.world gedaliyah@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-15
#10 · Quote Reply

Okay, so the good news is you found your one true love...

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ladicius lemmy.world ladicius@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-16
#11 · Quote Reply

Damn. Guess he didn't make it.

Not completely.

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cabbagepatchcrabs retrolemmy.com cabbagepatchcrabs@retrolemmy.com
Joined: 2026-06-30
#12 · Quote Reply

This is such a welcome surprise to see pop up here, moar!

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palordrolap fedia.io palordrolap@fedia.io
Joined: 2024-08-13
#13 · Quote Reply

Would always welcome more Don Martin here

I think this might be CustardFist's dad. Or grandad.

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Jacob_Mandarin lemmy.world Jacob_Mandarin@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-07-15
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You're right, I've misinterpreted this move. Cheers for correcting me. I should check out the "new" issues.

Oh wow. This response just triggered my inner ai detector.

Is this genuinely just going to happen everytime anyone honestly apologizes?

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aldhissla piefed.world aldhissla@piefed.world
Joined: 2025-08-26
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Oh wow. This response just triggered my inner ai detector. Is this genuinely just going to happen everytime anyone honestly apologizes?

Not to take away from your point, but I didn't exactly apologise. I thanked them for helping me with my misunderstanding.

If I'd apologise to anyone, it would be to myself for missing out on MAD.

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Sergio piefed.social Sergio@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-08-01
#16 · Quote Reply

Don Martin is a legend.

Martin's immediately recognizable drawing style (which featured bulbous noses and hinged feet) was loose, rounded, and filled with broad slapstick. His inspirations, plots, and themes were often bizarre and at times bordered on the berserk. In his earliest years with Mad, Martin used a more jagged, scratchy line. His style evolved, settling into its familiar form by 1964. It was typified by a sameness in the appearance of the characters (the punchline to a strip often was emphasized by a deadpan take with eyes half open and the mouth absent or in a tight, small circle of steadfast perplexity) and by an endless capacity for newly coined, onomatopoetic sound effects, such as "BREEDEET BREEDEET" for a croaking frog, "PLORTCH" for a knight being stabbed by a sword, or "FAGROON klubble klubble" for a collapsing building.[9] (Martin's dedication to onomatopoeia was such that he owned a vanity license plate which read "SHTOINK," patterned after the style of his famed sound effects.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Martin_(cartoonist)

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