On the Stands: MAD #488

In comic shops and on news stands today:

MAD # 488 (April 2008)

• Cover (Irving “Shenanigans” Schild and Jack “Scrambles” Syracuse)
• Meet The New Staff of MAD (Jeff “Pinky” Kruse, Tom “Pickles” Richmond)
• The Monkey-lini Pages (Charles “Taffy” Akins, Scott “Jazzy” Bircher, Jacob “Porkchop” Chabot, Tom “Sugar-Pie” Cheney, Desmond “Diapers” Devlin, Garth “Goober” Gerhart, Gary “Giblets” Hallgren, Jeff “Pinky” Kruse, Kevin “Diggles” Pope)
• “MONKey” (Charlie “Choo-Choo” Kadau, Mort “Squiggles” Drucker)
• A MAD Look At Humans (Sergio “Grabbers” Aragon?¬©s)
• MOMA-The Museum Of Monkey Art (Hermann “Knuckles” Mejia, Roberto “Be-Bop” Parada, Richard “Crumples” Williams, James “Gumdrop” Warhola)
• Snappy Answers To Stupid Human Questions (Al “Muddy Joe” Jaffee, Ryan “Senor Swingy” Flanders)
• Great Monkeys In American History (Teresa “Biscuits” Burns-Parkhurst, Tom “Patches” Fowler)
• MonkeyBay” (Scott “Scampers” Maiko)
• SPYder Monkey VS. SPYder Monkey (Peter “Boo-Boo” Kuper)
• eHarmonkey (Teresa “Biscuits” Burns-Parkhurst)
• The Strip Club (John “Banjo” Kovaleski, Bob “High-Hat” Harrell, Emily “Fudgy” Flake, Scott “Flapjack” Cunningham, Jason “Hiccups” Yungbluth, Ted “Jim-Jaws” Rall, Douglas “Doodles” Paszkiewicz, Eric “Fuddles” Scott, Christopher ”
  Gumbo” Baldwin)
• 10 Things You, As A Concerned Monkey, Can Do To Save The Environment (John “Zig Zag” Caldwell)
• How To Draw A Monkey (John “Zig Zag” Caldwell)
• Bananas Republic (Scott “Scampers” Maiko, Leonardo “Scraps” Rodriguez)
• MAD Fold-In (Al “Muddy Joe” Jaffe)
• Drawn Out Dramas (Sergio “Grabbers” Aragon?¬©s)
• Next Month In Mad #489: Dexter and Samantha Who?!

This was quite a different approach to an issue for MAD. I did a two pager in this issue of the entire staff as monkeys (or apes). I’ll post a sneak peek of that on Thursday, along with some sketches and anecdotes about this unusual issue and job.