MAD Magazine
August 19th, 2024 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Well kids, we are now in to the last days of MAD on our excruciatingly long journey through my work with the magazine. At this point in our timeline (early 2018) the New York version of MAD has packed up their veeblefetzers and rode off into the sunset, and the Burbank staff has fired up their poiuyts and started over with a brand new MAD #1. I did the art for not one but TWO full length parodies, one of a movie and one of a TV show (with a little throwback fun thrown in). The first feature that I did that appeared in MAD… READ MORE
August 12th, 2024 | Posted in MAD Magazine
It’s been a long time since I did one of these… I’ll bet you wish it was even longer! It’s time for another step on that dreary chronological drudge through my work for MAD Magazine. We are at the moment where MAD published its final issue produced by the New York Staff, MAD #550, April 2018. At the time this issue hit the newsstands, there had not been any official announcement that the next issue of MAD , the first produced by the new staff in Burbank headed up by new MAD editor Bill Morrison, would be a new #1 or continue the numbering and… READ MORE
July 8th, 2024 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Time for another moronic Monday edition of MADness, and another step on our way to the precipice that ends our look back at my work for MAD magazine. This week we have a gander at the second of the two “MAD 20″ pieces I did for MAD #549 (Feb 2018). It was another of the “MAD 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2017″, and called for me to imitate the look of the video game graphics of “Clash of Clans”. Here’s the pencil: Not much to add here. It was a pretty straightforward job. I had to render Trump and Kim Jong-Un in the… READ MORE
July 1st, 2024 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Time again for another stop on the long and winding road that was my work for MAD Magazine. We have arrived at the penultimate “New York” MAD issue, #549 (Feb 2018), which happened to be the year end issue contain the “MAD 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2017”. I did the art on two of the “MAD 20” pieces for this issue. We’ll look at the second one next week, but this was the first of them. No writer is credited, meaning it was written by the editorial staff. This is of course a spoof of the movie poster for “Wet Hot American… READ MORE
June 24th, 2024 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Better late then never, even on a Monday! Here we go with yet another step along the seemingly never ending path that was my work for MAD Magazine. Today’s episode is the second half of the work I did for MAD #548 (Dec 2017), which was the companion cover for the “Stranger Things:” spoof I also did the art for in this issue. In late July 2017 I got a call from MAD art director Sam Viviano asking me if I was interested in doing the cover of issue #548, which would be a “Stranger Things” theme. I was in the middle of doing the… READ MORE
June 17th, 2024 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Clicky to Embiggen… Here we go with another ridiculous look back at my work for MAD Magazine! We are getting very close to the end of the New York MAD run… only two more issues after this one, MAD #548, which featured Desmond Devlin and my spoof of “Stranger Things” (I also did the cover, but that is for next week). I did a lot of work for MAD over the almost 18 years to this point in the timeline, and I’d go on to do quite a bit more up until the end of new content, but I consider this issue the peak of… READ MORE
June 15th, 2024 | Posted in General
Last weekend The Lovely Anna and I travelled to Stockbridge, MA for the opening of “What Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine”, an exhibit of original art from the pages of MAD spanning the magazine’s entire 72 year history hanging at the Norman Rockwell Museum. I’ve been to a few exhibits of MAD art, and while they have all been good this one is by far the most comprehensive and complete. Usually these exhibits concentrate on certain eras of MAD, often the early Harvey Kurtzman comic book era or the Al Feldstein years where the format of the magazine is most familiar… READ MORE
May 20th, 2024 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Ah… Monday. The start of a new week, with all the hopes and possibilities it represents! Sorry to bring it all crashing down in a cascade of idiocy, but it’s once again time for another step along the path of our look back at my work for MAD Magazine. This week features not one but two politically themed pieces, both with uncredited writers meaning they were written by the MAD staff, which appeared in MAD #547, Oct 2017. The first in this issue was a quick single panel that was part of “The Trumpalini Pages”, a recent offshoot of the by then fairly long running… READ MORE
