Don Martin (May 18 1931 – January 6 2000) was a popular American cartoon artist whose best-known work appeared in MAD magazine from 1956 to 1988. He received the National Cartoonist Society Special Features Award for 1981 and 1982, and was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2004. Early years Martin was born in Paterson, New Jersey. After graduating from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, he began his career as freelance cartoonist and illustrator. Martin's work first appeared in MAD in September 1956. Career with MAD Magazine Martin often was billed as "MAD's Maddest Artist." Whereas other features in MAD, recurring or otherwise, typically were headed with pun-filled "department" titles, Martin's work always was headed with only his name—"Don Martin Dept."—further fanfare presumably being unnecessary. At his peak, each issue of MAD

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z # TAGS