Bringing the Past into the Present
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Looking back at Bill Mauldin, Walt Kelly, Popeye, and MAD magazine.
A Voice for the Dogface
With Veterans’ Day tomorrow the Drawn to Combat: Bill Mauldin and the Art of War exhibit currently on display at New Orleans’ National WWII Museum (July 16, 2026, through April 18, 2027) is back in the news.
Kenny Lopez for WGNO gives us a tour of the exhibit and provides a transcript of the 2 minute segment.
“‘He gives a voice to the haggard infantrymen who have a lot of gripes of bureaucracy, military officers, poor food and bad weather. He gives them an outlet to alleviate their frustrations,’ [curator Chase] Tomlin said.”
A voice that would not be allowed by the civilian leadership of today’s U.S. military.
The Walt Kelly Studio in Okefenokee Swamp
The Blackshear Times celebrates the opening of the Walt Kelly Studio in Waycross, Georgia.
“Kelly was not from Waycross, but visited for the first and only time in 1955 when he spoke to the Waycross-Ware County Chamber of Commerce. During that trip, Kelly saw the swamp that would soon come to be the setting of his now iconic, politically satirical comic strip featuring the possum ‘Pogo’ as its central character.”
Sea Shanty Substack
Just a quick note that Scott McCullar‘s Sea Shanty Funnies tribute to public domain Popeye now has a Substack site to help support his efforts.
Updating The MAD Cover Site Index
Doug Gilford the Idiot in charge of The MAD Cover Site is reconstructing his MAD Contributors page in a much more user friendly and eye-pleasing fashion.
Compare the above remodeled Al Jaffee page to the not yet updated Mort Drucker and Frank Jacobs pages.
With tens of thousands of credits the switch will not be completed overnight.
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