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147:, Edwing began receiving a writer's byline for many of Martin's cartoons, as well as new material from Martin's paperback books. An example from 1986 is "Early One Evening In Las Vegas," in which a man finds that the only way to summon the fire department is to put a dollar bill in an alarm box which is built like a gambler's slot machine. With the exception of a single page of art in 1975, Edwing was exclusively a writer at 83: 166:
editors did all the work by putting us together. I merely cheered Don up on a daily basis by telling him jokes, which had nothing to do with the work in front of him. I marveled at how he would take my chicken scratch sketches of a gag and transform them into a 2-D, animated, spectacular scene. The
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spanned six decades, beginning with his first two gag cartoons for the magazine: an installment of the recurring "Scenes We'd Like to See" feature and a sequence called "Nuclear Jitters," both from
128:, Edwing began drawing at age nine. He started making the rounds with his cartoons after leaving the navy in 1958, receiving $ 5 for his first sale in 1960. His 49-year tenure with 112:
magazine writer." In 2007, Edwing told an interviewer, "I always believed that when you choose your field, you should specialize. You never deviate. I chose 'sick puppy'."
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Edwing met Clair, who was known as Cluck Edwing, in Virginia in the late 1970s. They married and moved to Florida, where they lived together until her death in 2008.
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Edwing created the Golden Gator Award which is given to the wives of cartoonists. In 2003, he began designing slot machines for
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for more than a dozen years before becoming an occasional illustrative contributor in the early 1980s. After Martin left
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paperbacks. He also wrote three "Spy vs. Spy" books and Don Martin's "Captain Klutz" material.
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in late 1987, Edwing effectively replaced him as the magazine's one-page gag cartoonist.
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Following Martin's death in 2000, Edwing was asked about their working relationship:
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and other magazines. Interviewed in 2002, Edwing was asked about his work outside
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Before drawing his own cartoons, Edwing was the uncredited writer for many of
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and various lunatic Edwing characters that were highly successful adventures.
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s year-long 50th-anniversary celebration. Charter subscribers included
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Witters, Jim. "Artist adds jokes, trivia to Mad experience,"
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Duck Edwing interviewed by Mark Anderson (January 24, 2005)
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http://www.landsurvival.com/mad/1980's/1986/MAD267.pdf
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Martin and I corresponded mostly with phone calls. The
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