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Don Martin

Don Martin (1931 - 2000) was active/lived in New York, Florida, New Jersey.  Don Martin is known for Comic strip, Mad magazine.

Don Martin (1931-2000)

Don Martin was born on May 18, 1931 in Paterson, New Jersey, and studied illustration and fine art at Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts between 1949 and 1951 and subsequently graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.  
He settled in New York and began his career doing illustrations for records, postcards and the science-fiction magazines Fantasy and Galaxy.  He joined Harvey Kurtzman's Mad magazine in 1955 and his work first appeared in Mad in the September 1956 issue.  He stayed with the magazine for nearly the rest of his life.

Martin's immediately recognizable drawing style (which featured bulbous noses, and the famous hinged foot) was loose, rounded and filled with broad slapstick. His inspirations, plots and themes were often bizarre and at times bordered on the berserk, earning him the the name of "Mad's Maddest Artist". In his earliest years with   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1886 characters.]  Artist bio

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