HOOD

HUD (1963)
dir: Martin Ritt

HOOD
MAD # 83, December 1963
w: Larry Siegel
a: Mort Drucker

This is called a "western" but it's not really a Roy Rogers or John Wayne kind of western, taking place in modern times. It has more in common with The Last Picture Show which makes sense, since it's also based on a book by Larry McMurtry.

Hud Bannon is a womanizing alcoholic good ol'boy who killed his brother in a car crash and lives with his father Homer (Melvyn Douglas) and nephew Lonnie (Brandon deWilde). He...um...tries to have his way with their housekeeper Alma (Patricia Neal)

The second panel has Granny Addams.

Homer owns a ranch where Hud and Lon work, and the cattle all get foot and mouth disease, so they must be corralled into a ditch and shot. Alma and Lon both leave. Homer eventually dies and Hud inherits the ranch.

One of the cows is drawn as advertising mascot Elsie Borden.