The Alfred E. Neuman Voodoo Sign

The eye one looks like the gesture for “mon oeil” to me, although all it means is something like “bullshit!” or “my foot!” (literally, it’s “my eye.”) Evil eye would be more in keeping with voodoo, but I’ve never seen a depiction of the evil eye like that. There is also akanbe, which is a Japanese taunting gesture, but that is usually accompanied by the sticking out of your tongue.

Here’s Wikipedia’s take on the eyelid pull, and there it says it has various meanings across cultures that include a “warning to be watchful.” That makes more sense to me than a generic “evil eye,” which is usually an eye on its own or an eye embedded in a hand.

Oops.
OUTER RING, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP:
Ace of Spades is too big on card.
Two tragedy masks never actually appear that way.
Envelope has no return address.
Sickle faces wrong way.
Left hand (under eyeball) obviously belongs to some other person.
Red hourglass on spider is not visible.
Four and three on one die, and six and one on other, should not be on adjacent sides.
INNER SYMBOLS:
Ladder lacks spreader arms.

This should be right. (It is.)

I think SS might really be tire tracks.

It would have been better that way.

You’d be surprised.

http://www.madcoversite.com/madpb07_son_of_mad.html

The next day was hangin’ day, the sky was overcast and black
Big Jim lay covered up, killed by a penknife in the back
And Rosemary on the gallows, she didn’t even blink
The hangin’ judge was sober; he hadn’t any drink
The only person on the scene missing was the Jack of Hearts.

Interesting that the SS runes are next to a Totenkopf (Death’s head)… :eek:

The sign looks like Bob Clarke’s style. I don’t know if he is still around…

Nope. Died in 2013 at the age of 91.

Sorry, I didn’t know… :frowning:

In Son of Mad is a favorite story of mine–“Miltie of the Mounties.” (At the start of the story he marches through a tree and a brick wall and says, “Nuthin’ stops me! I always get muh man!”)
In the last three panels, after his latest objective–Nanuk the Canuk–has taken his own gun and shot him fatally with it–he says, in agony, "I am Miltie the Mountie! I ALWAYS get muh man!
"Unfortunately this shall not hold true for Nanuk the Canuk! For you see, Nanuk the Cakuk [sic]…
"is a W-WOMAN!"