#Casabonkers

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Casabonkers

Mort Drucker's 6-page "Casabonkers" story for Mad #300, 1991. Caricatures of Peter Lorre, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, etc., from "Casablanca":

(I know these are caricatures, but personally, I'd have liked a closer likeness to Peter Lorre's actual face. I was still so tickled to stumble upon this.)

[nastassyafilippovna]

3, 7 and 17 !!

3. An actor/actress you’ve seen in more than 8 movies? Name the movies.

I’ll go with mr bogart since he’s my fav actor. 19 movies INCLUDING casabonkers, the mal PEES Falcon, the pig sheep, in a lonely place, sabrina, to have and have not, key largo, dark passage, the barefoot contessa, beat the devil, they drive by night, dead reckoning, marked woman, knock on any door, all through the night, the two mrs carrolls, conflict, the amazing doctor clitterhouse

7. A film you wish had a sequel?

Ok hear me out. Gilda two. She turns the casino into a funky discotheque

17. Which cinematic universe would you like to live in?

Starrred trek so I can get a piece that lizard action

[itunesbooks]

MAD About Oscars - The Usual Gang of Idiots

MAD About Oscars The Usual Gang of Idiots Genre: Graphic Novels Price: $9.99 Publish Date: September 25, 2012 Publisher: DC Comics Seller: DC Comics. "And the winner is… Alfred E. Neuman?!" It doesn't take a genius to sit back and pick the year's "best" movies (take that, Academy Awards)! However, it takes real talent (and incredible bitterness) to point out why those "masterpieces" suck! And for that reason, this book deserves a little golden trophy of its own! This is a star-studded collection of MAD Magazine's best and worst movie satires: 19 Oscar-winners and over 30 Oscar nominees as presented by "The Usual Gang of Idiots," including artists Mort Drucker, Angelo Torres, Jack Davis, Harry North, Sam Viviano, Tom Richmond, and Hermann Mejia, and writers Larry Siegel, Stan Hart, Arnie Kogen, Dick DeBartolo, Frank Jacobs, and Desmond Devlin.Featuring all your favorite MAD movie parodies—from Casabonkers to Bored of the Rings, plus Rockhead, The Violence of the Hams, A Booty-Full Mind, and many more! http://dlvr.it/R1YBTg

[peterlorrefanpage]

I know, this was always the kind of magazine I'd find in my older brother's room, not something I picked up on my own. Maybe I should! There may be more Peter Lorres in them.

I do still remember one set of panels from a Disney spoof:

Someone to Donald Duck: "Hey Donald Duck!" Donald Duck: "WHAT?" Brick: *BAM* Someone: "I told you to duck!"

I was also quietly miffed that the artist did far more recognizable portraits of everyone else. Hence I love everyone's artwork they share here - Peter is not only recognizable, he LOOKS like himself!

Thanks for posting the whole story! lol, Mad Magazine is such corn. I can't believe this goofy publication was considered "subversive," but perhaps 1960s middle America really was the blandest place in the goddamn universe, and uh... [reads publication date] 1991?!

...I think I need to sit down.

Silly jokes aside, I agree, why can't we get a decent caricature of Peter's lovely face? The artist always gets his eyes right, and then sort of gives up and draws a "whatever" bone structure and jawline without bothering to reference an actual photograph. I promise you can make him look cartoony while still looking like himself. (Damn, I thought I had a good example of such a caricature of the whole cast of the Maltese Falcon, but I can't find it. Uhhh, here's a certain sexy frame of the film for no reason):

See, such a soft face. 🥰 The artist drew everyone else pretty good, though.

[peterlorrefanpage]

Well, how cool is that!? Knock me over with a feather!

That's such a great memory, and to think you were just <this big> when Lorre came into your life is pretty awesome.

My god I KNOW this comic!! We had an old dog-eared Dutch version of Mad Magazine lying in our holiday apartment in Switzerland for decades and THIS spoof was in it!!

This is SUCH a trip down memory lane: I can still remember Bogart’s lines in Dutch (‘ik rook! Ik drink! Ik weet niet of ik zo lang nog zal leven!’) and leafing through this edition, reading this comic over and over every time we came there to go skiing or hiking. I remember how Mort Drucker’s caricatures scared me as a kid, I got nightmares from them!

Dear lord I never knew Lorre had been with me since the very beginning! I must have been five when I first could read and I read EVERYTHING, including this comic. Seeing this and remembering every nib pen line of this comic and realising how often I must have read it (we had that apartment until I was 16 years old and I must have read that magazine every single goddamn year) is just so surreal!

[quanatural]

This is really great. .

Casabonkers

Mort Drucker's 6-page "Casabonkers" story for Mad #300, 1991. Caricatures of Peter Lorre, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, etc., from "Casablanca":

(I know these are caricatures, but personally, I'd have liked a closer likeness to Peter Lorre's actual face. I was still so tickled to stumble upon this.)