Mad Bizarre Bazaar

by Don Edwing

Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

Reviews

[Marco · Rating 2 out of 5]

I've had this - or at least the German edition of the book - for decades (and it shows). I found my copy in a box I had put aside years and years ago and finally decided to get rid of a few weeks back.
While cleaning everything up trying to decide what to keep and what to give away (or sell) I started reading.
And I found that I remembered much more of this stuff than I thought, but also realized I no longer find this as funny as I used to. (Let's hope I'm not actually growing up!)
So while I had some fun revisiting my childhood here I don't think I'll keep the book.

[Rob Smith, Jr. · Rating 4 out of 5]

My goal was to reach 100 books in 2016. Due to the death of my father, my own illness more than twice this past year and trying to produce 4 books, i fell waaaaay behind. As days remained in the year a friend joked i should read a MAD magazine Don Martin collection of cartoons to speed up to 100. I scoffed at first. Then I learned of the death of my friend, MAD magazine's Duck Edwing on December 27th. Suddenly i realized I could rap up the year with a volume of Duck's cartoons and a volume of another MAD cartoonist friend, Jack Davis, who died this past August. Maybe an odd catharsis, but very satisfying to revisit the work of two legends in cartooning.

I've had this one for many years, but have never sat down and actually read it. The cartoons written and drawn by Duck are mostly hilarious. The 'Red Menace' is my favorite. His cartooning is crude in style and he once told me how frustrating he was working around the monumental legends of Mort Drucker and Jack Davis.

A lot of this collection of cartoons, published in 1980, would not be considered PC. Ridiculously sensitive types might have a problem with some of the cartoons. That should tell those people to read more Duck cartoons to lead to recovery. :D

Bottom line: i recommend this book. 8 out of 10 points.