The most recent Don Martin thread I can find is from 2018 so I’m starting a new unlimited thread. “Unlimited” in that any sound effect which tickles your fancy is fair game.
This one (Sequential Art, strip #1273) is worthy of MAD’s maddest artist.
Onomatopoeia tickles my fancy.
I think this on was just to see if anybody was paying attention.
Hulk pooped his pants, but his gamma-irradiated poop is purple so nobody notices.
Vague memory of a strip in the National Lampoon featuring a guy who lets out a loud fart at his wedding, and he’s so mortified that he runs away and travels the globe. The fart sound was “brump”, or probably, “bruuump”.
Calvin invites Hobbes to go spelunking.
“Spelunking? There aren’t any caves around here!”
“You don’t need a cave. Just a rock.”
Last panel shows them throwing rocks into a pond: “SPELUNK!”
It’s a good enough general strip, but that sound effect falls far short of Don Martin’s outrageousness
Basil Wolverton, another early Mad artist, was also purportedly creative in the sound department.
There was an issue of Excalibur during the Chris Claremont/Alan Davis run which used that same sound effect (“BATHROOM!”) when a toilet exploded.
You may be interested in hearing Cathy Berberian’s “Stripsody”, a classical vocal composition from 1966. She was a singer who was inspired by going beyond the standard conceptions of what vocal music was supposed to be. This piece was inspired by the sound effects in newspaper comic strips of the time.
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And of course the classic:
That list misses a POIT! entry, IIRC Don Martin used it also when Wonder Woman had an issue with her boobs and her amazon bra.
Not a sound effect, but ..
On “The Simpsons,” there was some comic book spoof where they used BORT as a sound effect. Bort was used as a joke name involving bicycle license plates in a different episode.
A nice selection from ASM #197
They also used SNUH, which was the name of a group opposing cartoon violence in another episode.
A little digging and I found:
Origin of Bort:
This hits on all eight cylinders:
Thanx, Q.Q., saved me some typing.
That belongs in the “Fake Things I Wish were Real” thread.
One of the weird and interesting things about comics is that they deliberately avoid certain words in lettering because if the ink runs together you could get something risque. I’m told that they generally avoid the name “Clint” because the “L” and the “I” can run together, creating an unintended “U”. They must’ve held their beath every time they printed an issue of The Avengers featuring Hawkeye (Clint Barton).
You don’t generally get that problem with sound effects, which are done in larger letters with some “body” to them. But I do recall an old issue of The Fantastic Four where Ben Grimm, as The Thing, knocks someone over with a flick of his finger. The sound effect was written in large letters as FLIK, as if they were afraid to wrote FLICK, lest the “L” and “I” be mistaken for a “U”.
Another time, in Marvel’s Not Brand Ecch an old-style biplane takes off, emitting the sound FARP, with a “P” that could not possibly be mistaken for a “T”.