MAD Magazine
October 9th, 2008 | Posted in MAD Magazine
In comic book shops this week and on news stands Oct. 14th: MAD # 495 (November 2008) Cover (Uncredited) The Fundalini Pages (Scott Bricher, Tom Bunk, Tom Cheney, Dick DeBartolo, Desmond Devlin, Garth Gerhart, Jeff Kruse, Sam Sisco) “The Dork Knight” (movie parody) (Desmond Devlin, Tom Richmond) MAD’s Updated Glossary to the War on Terror (Desmond Devlin, Paul Coker Jr.) A MAD Look at Fortune Tellers (Sergio Aragon?¬©s) Alfred for President poster (Uncredited) MAD Deconstructs Talk Shows: Countdown with Keith Olbermann (Desmond Devlin, Peter Kuper) A Look Back at the Historical Career of John McCain (Uncredited, Scott Bricher) Monroe and… Domestic Terror (Anthony Barbieri, Tom… READ MORE
October 8th, 2008 | Posted in MAD Magazine
I know, I know… with the newsstand price a whopping $4.99 how can MAD Magazine possibly say it’s “CHEAP!”? For those who wonder, here is a public service announcement: Stop ignoring the roughly two dozen insert cards that rain down from every copy of MAD and cause you to curse as you bend down to scoop them up! A standard subscription is only $19.95, or a CHEAP $1.67 per issue. Better yet, and the reason for this mid-day post, is that TimeWarner is now offering discounted subscription rates for all their publications, including MAD. This website offers a subcription to MAD for only $12.00. For… READ MORE
September 30th, 2008 | Posted in MAD Magazine
In the 80’s MAD publisher William M. Gaines and the editorial staff cited twelve pieces of cover artwork from the magazine that they considered the epitome of what MAD was all about.. it’s “heart and soul”. They represented the essential philosophy, type of humor and satirical outlook that MAD had established as it thumbed it’s nose at the world and all those who took it, and themselves, too seriously. He called these classic pieces of art the “Soul of MAD“. Over the years there have been several MAD art auctions by Christie’s and Sothebys that featured a lot of classic MAD art, but the “Soul… READ MORE
September 15th, 2008 | Posted in MAD Magazine
In comic book shops now and on news stands Tuesday: MAD # 494 (October 2008) Cover (Mark Fredrickson) The Fundalini Pages (Paul Coker, Dick DeBartolo, Emily Flake, Garth Gerhart, Paul Gilligan, Darren Johnson, Bob Staake) MAD’s 50 Worst Things about the Internet (Charlie Kadau and Jeff Kruse, Leonardo Rodriguez, Drew Friedman, Evan Dorkin & Sarah Dyer, Jose Garibaldi and Rick Tulka) The Eerie Similarities Between Family Guy and the Bush White House (David Shayne, Jack Syracuse) A MAD Look at Cooking Shows (Sergio Aragon?¬©s) Up-And-Coming Mixed Marital Arts Fighters (Jeff Kruse, Hermann Mejia) Overheard at the Barack Obama Rally In Germany (Uncredited) The Darker Side… READ MORE
August 14th, 2008 | Posted in MAD Magazine
In comic book shops now and on news stands Tuesday: MAD # 493 (September 2008) Cover (Mark Fredrickson) The Fundalini Pages (Peter Bagge, Zachary Baldus, Tom Cheney, Dick DeBartolo, Jonathan Edwards, Darren Johnson, Jeff Kruse, Jacob Lambert, Joe Quinones, Rick Tulka) Ths 46-Year Old Political Virgin Poster (Uncredited) Inadiaper Jones and the Kingdom of the Creative Dry Spell (Arnie Kogen, Hermann Mejia) A MAD Look At Summer Fun (Sergio Aragon?¬©s) “Amy” by Amy Winehouse (Gary Hallgren) Planet TAD!!!!! (Tim Carvell) Spy vs Spy (Peter Kuper) NOW That’s What I Call Monotony 29 (Darren Johnson) Monroe And The New Phone (Anthony Barbieri, Tom Fowler, Carl Peterson)… READ MORE
August 5th, 2008 | Posted in MAD Magazine
This was all over the internet yesterday… when I first heard about it I thought it might have been a hoax but apparently it was accurate. Hard to believe. This was first reported on The Consumerist website via an anonymous tipster. In MAD #492 there was a 4 page article spoofing a Circuit City Sunday newspaper ad in typical MAD fashion. As it turns out, a few Circuit City stores carry some magazines including, you guessed it, MAD. Overzealous corporate operations executive Elizabeth Barron sent out this mass corporate e-memo (courtesy of The Consumerist): That’s right, she (and by osmosis Circuit City itself) wanted all… READ MORE
August 2nd, 2008 | Posted in MAD Magazine
I didn’t mention anything last week about the 2008 San Diego Comic Con that was going about it’s usual insanity because… well… I didn’t go so therefore didn’t have much to say about it. I’ve only been to it twice. The first time was when I was working for the now defunct NOW Comics and sat at the NOW booth with, among other people, Mr. T who was pimping his comic “Mr. T and the T-Force”. That was…. interesting. The second was a few years ago and I sat mainly at the National Cartoonists Society booth. I’d like to go again someday but the summer… READ MORE
July 15th, 2008 | Posted in MAD Magazine
I have to admit I was pretty stoked to get assigned the art chores on MAD‘s parody of “Iron Man“, as it was one of the movies I was looking the most forward to seeing this summer. I saw it twice (on opening day) as I usually do when drawing the parody… once to just watch it and once to study it for the parody. I sometimes see it a third time once I have read the script so I can pay special attention to the visuals during scenes I know are going to correspond to panels in the parody. While I didn’t make it… READ MORE
