MAD Magazine
November 14th, 2008 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Click image for a closer look… In October I got a rare opportunity to do some cover art for MAD… not “THE” MAD Magazine but their little brother publication MAD KIDS. I did the cover of MAD KIDS #7 a year or so ago, and was given the opportunity to do the cover for MAD KIDS #13 this fall… they must have had limited options! Since the issue has been released, I can now share the artwork here. This job was unique in that I was being asked to somewhat ape the look and feel of the art style of the “Star Wars: The Clone… READ MORE
November 11th, 2008 | Posted in General
There are two turning points in my professional life that I credit with pointing me (and kicking me) down the right path towards my eventual career, such as it is. The first was getting a job drawing caricatures at a theme park near Chicago in 1985 while a freshman in college at the University of Minnesota. Prior to that job, being from a very small town in Minnesota, I had not been exposed to the kind of talents and abilities I would need to be on par with if I ever wanted to make a living as a commercial artist. Thus I had never really… READ MORE
November 6th, 2008 | Posted in MAD Magazine
In comic book shops this week and on news stands Nov. 11th: MAD # 496 (December 2008) Cover (Mark Frederickson) The Fundalini Pages (Charles Akins, Greg Benson, Dick DeBartolo, Desmond Devlin, J.C. Duffy, Darren Johnson, Jeff Kruse, Jacob Lambert, Kevin Pope, Tom Richmond, Ward Sutton, Rick Tulka) The Rise and Fall of a Rap Star (Desmond Devlin, Hermann Mejia) What the Deal or No Deal Models are Thinking (Ross Garmil and Matthew A. Cohen) The Horse That Knew The Way (Leonardo Rodriguez, Brian McConnachie) A MAD Look at Road Trips (Sergio Aragon?¬©s) 7 Periods Closer to Death (Ted Rall) Monroe and… The Natural Disaster (Anthony… READ MORE
November 4th, 2008 | Posted in MAD Magazine
After what only seems like a forever filled with the usual partisan ugliness associated with a U.S. presidential election, today has finally arrived and by tomorrow morning we will know who will lead the United States for the next four years… …or will we? The photo above is of the famous gaffe in the November 3rd, 1948 issue of the Chicago Tribune, where they jumped the gun and declared Thomas E. Dewey the winner of the election over Harry S. Truman. It’s always been a dilemma for printed periodicals to decide at what point they should “call” an election and therefore get the story to… READ MORE
November 1st, 2008 | Posted in MAD Magazine
I just got my copy of “Mad About the Movies: The Director’s Cut” the other day and I’ve seen it in stock at my local Barnes and Noble, so it is officially released and “in the wild”. It is a hardcover, just as advertised. I was a little surprised to see it was in black and white only, but given the crazy low sale price of $9.98 I guess I should have expected that. Actually it’s great to see the old stuff printed just like it originally appeared, and seeing the later color work in black and white makes me wonder what it would have… READ MORE
October 24th, 2008 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Not the sequel… the “Directors’ Cut“. Back in 1998 MAD published MAD About the Movies, a collection of movie spoofs from over the years. It was in part to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Warner Bros. (WB owns DC Comics which in turn owns MAD) and all the movies in the book were Warner Bros. films. 10 years later MAD is coming out with a new version of the book featuring parodies of films from other studios as well as some from WB. MAD About the Movies: Director’s Cut weighs in at a whopping 400 pages and contains not only SIXTY movie parodies from films… READ MORE
October 17th, 2008 | Posted in MAD Magazine
I have to admit when it comes to MAD I am not much of a knowledgeable historian. I know the basics, and have learned a lot from reading books like “The MAD World of William M. Gaines” by Frank Jacobs, “Good Days and MAD” by Dick DeBartolo and others, and I’ve learned a lot from some of the long time MAD editors and contributors with whom I have become friends. Still my lack of total MAD knowledge sometimes shows itself when least expected… like a month or so ago when fellow caricaturist Dave “Rock” Cowles sent me this caricature for my Me Gallery. When he… READ MORE
October 10th, 2008 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Here’s some of the art for the parody of “The Dark Knight” in this month’s issue of MAD: Pencil rough- Click for a closer look… Final Inks- Click for a closer look… Finished splash page- Click for a closer look… Here are a few of the other panels. This was a rare six page parody and as you can imagine a lot of fun to do: READ MORE
