MAD Magazine
March 20th, 2008 | Posted in General
This last issue of MAD was a unique one. It’s an “All Monkey Issue”, filled from front to back with gags about monkeys and apes. They even did a parody of the TV show “Monk” with Mort Drucker drawing a monkey instead of the lead character. Tony Shalhoub must have been disappointed (although the monkey looked a little like him more than occasionally)! My job for the issue was a really different as well. I was called on to draw the staff of MAD as monkeys… or apes as the case may be. I was told not to worry that much about the likenesses of… READ MORE
March 18th, 2008 | Posted in MAD Magazine
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,… READ MORE
February 15th, 2008 | Posted in MAD Magazine
A biopic about the life of MAD and E.C. Comics publisher William M. Gaines has been long rumored and connected to a number of possible directors, actors and studios including HBO. It now seems that the ball is rolling once again on the film project. Yesterday several film websites announced that John Landis, veteran director of comedy classics like Animal House, Blues Brothers and Trading Places, has signed to direct the film and is working on developing the project with screenwriter Joel Eisenberg. The movie, currently titled “Ghoulishly Yours, William M. Gaines” is going to focus on the creative teams that produced the classic E.C.… READ MORE
February 12th, 2008 | Posted in MAD Magazine
In comic shops now and on news stands Tuesday, February 19th: MAD # 487 (Mar. 2008) Cover (Uncredited) The Fundalini Pages (Charles Akins, John Caldwell, Evan Dorkin & Sarah Dyer, Garth Gerhart, Jeff Kruse, Jacob Lambert, Greg Leitman, Ryan Pagelow, Adam Rust, Sam Sisco, Jack Syracuse) “Zeroes” (Desmond Devlin, Tom Richmond) The Darker Side of The Lighter Side (Dave Berg) Monroe and… High School Musical (Anthony Barbieri, Tom Fowler, Ryan Flanders) Zygote 101 (Scott Bricher) If Classic Old Movie Scenes Were Filmed Today (Dick DeBartolo, Hermann Mejia) Planet TAD!!!!! (Tim Carvell, Brian Durniak) Spy vs Spy (Peter Kuper) Why George W. Bush is in Favor… READ MORE
February 4th, 2008 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Mad Magazine Uses Pulitzer Winners to Tweak Bush I’m assuming this article will be in MAD #487, out on the 19th of this month, but haven’t confirmed that yet with the staff. (UPDATE- Just got the info, yes, the article will be in MAD #487). In short, the article entitled “Why George W. Bush is in Favor of Global Warming” features various reasons illustrated by 10 different Pulitzer prize winning editorial cartoonists. MAD did something similar a few years ago when they did a spoof on superheroes with a number of goofy hero parody characters each illustrated by some of the top names in comic… READ MORE
January 22nd, 2008 | Posted in MAD Magazine
The latest issue of MAD (and presumably several DC comic books this month as well) has a special advertising insert similar to the one done several months ago for Ball Park Franks. The concept is the same… kind of a mini MAD with “articles” pertaining to the ad subject. Unlike the Ball Park ad, this one does not advertise a product as much as a group of people… NYC sketch comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’ Know“. The “WKUK” had a sketch comedy television show on the FUSE Network in 2007, and has moved to the Independent Film Channel for season two. IFC is uncensored… READ MORE
January 21st, 2008 | Posted in MAD Magazine
On news stands tomorrow, January 22nd: MAD # 486 (Feb. 2008) Cover (Uncredited) The Fundalini Pages (Charles Akins, Peter Bagge, Scott Bricher, Tom Bunk, Desmond Devlin, Darren Johnson, Jeff Kruse, Jacob Lambert, Jack Syracuse, Sumukh Torgalkar, P.C. Vey) George W. Bush “Spins” his Final State of the Union Address (Idea: Frank Jacobs, Ward Sutton) Spy vs Spy (Peter Kuper) Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions (Al Jaffee, colorist: Ryan Flanders) Zeroes- A MAD Political Parody (Uncredited) A MAD Look at Death (Sergio Aragon?¬©s) MAD Presents- The Whitest Kids U Know- A Special Pull Out Advertising Section Cover (Mark Fredrickson) Get To Know The Whitest Kids U’… READ MORE
January 3rd, 2008 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Alfred E. Neuman is one of the most recognized pop culture icons in the world. Go figure, but it’s true. MAD didn’t invent him, he’s actually been around since the 1800’s, appearing in ads for children’s dentistry and other products. Maria Reidelbach‘s book “Completely MAD: A History of the Comic Book and Magazine” has a whole chapter on the origin of Alfred, but the bottom line is that nobody really knows for certain when the grinning gap-toothed idiot really first appeared in pop culture. As the story goes, original MAD editor Harvey Kurtzman had seen images of the “What- Me Worry? kid” from old ads… READ MORE
