MAD Magazine
December 21st, 2020 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Each Monday I’m doing an installment of a complete, chronological look at every job I did for MAD over my 20 year run for the magazine, complete with whatever stories, anecdotes, or milestones, might apply along with the full article. This Monday MADness installment is a look at my fifth appearance in MAD, which was also my first ever movie parody in the magazine. This was a spoof of the film “Traffic”, entitled “Traff-eccch!” written by longtime MAD writer Arnie Kogen for MAD #405, May 2001. This was also the first color movie parody to appear in MAD since the comic book days. I know… READ MORE
December 17th, 2020 | Posted in MAD Magazine
MAD #17 just came out this month, billed as the “Sergio Aragonés Tribute” issue. It’s all Sergio from front to back cover, except a new fold-in by Johnny Sampson which is a Sergio tribute in itself. Most of it is reprints of classic Sergio, but there are a few new pieces by him. What MAD #17 really is is a “so long and thanks for all the fish” forced farewell to a cartooning giant. The image above is the last panel of what is purportedly the final original “A MAD Look at…” feature by Sergio from MAD #17… and it broke my heart. In a way it’s… READ MORE
December 14th, 2020 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Each Monday I’m doing an installment of a complete, chronological look at every job I did for MAD over my 20 year run for the magazine, complete with whatever stories, anecdotes, or milestones, might apply along with the full article. This week’s installment is a look at my fourth appearance in MAD, which was my first TV/movie parody. The subject was TV show “Malcolm in the Middle” entitled “Malcontent in the Muddle” written by my CLAPTRAP co-hort, Desmond Devlin for MAD #403, March 2001. I made no secret to MAD art director Sam Viviano that I REALLY wanted to do a movie or TV show… READ MORE
December 8th, 2020 | Posted in MAD Magazine
This should come as no surprise, but a lot of people on the internet say things in comments and discussions that range from fairly inaccurate to completely untrue, and yet attempt to sound like they know what they are talking about by throwing out complete conjecture as fact. I read a lot of stuff people say about MAD, usually centered around the reason for its current state, that is ridiculously untrue. Here’s some fact checking/myth busting about MAD Magazine: Claim: MAD stopped publishing years ago/last year/recently. Verdict: FALSE MAD never stopped publishing, and in fact comes out bi-monthly as of this writing, December 2020. It… READ MORE
December 7th, 2020 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Each Monday I’m doing an installment of a complete, chronological look at every job I did for MAD over my 20 year run for the magazine, complete with whatever stories, anecdotes, or milestones might apply and the full article. This week is a look at my third appearance in the magazine in “The MAD 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2000”, once again written by my CLAPTRAP co-hort, Desmond Devlin for MAD #401, Jan 2001. I know I just posted these images a few weeks ago post 2020 election, but I’m again I’m a completist so I’m doing these in order. When I originally… READ MORE
December 1st, 2020 | Posted in MAD Magazine
This week MAD artist Dalton Vaughn posted this interesting tidbit on a couple of MAD Facebook groups: I also had a conversation about a year or so ago with Mike about this very thing. At the time he was just considering what kind of a market might be available for a MAD-like humor magazine now that MAD was moving to reprinted content. BTW, if you are not familiar with The American Bystander, it’s a humor publication very unlike MAD both in tone and format. It’s kind of like a satirical New Yorker. It’s mostly text articles, but it does have a fair amount of cartoons… READ MORE
November 30th, 2020 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Each Monday I’m doing an installment of a complete, chronological look at every job I did for MAD over my 20 year run for the magazine, complete with whatever stories, anecdotes or milestones might apply and the full article. This week is a look at my second appearance in the magazine, in a feature called “The Untold History of MAD Magazine”, written by my CLAPTRAP co-hort, Desmond Devlin for MAD #400, December 2000. MAD #400 was obviously a major milestone for the magazine. The issue was packed with special stuff, including a feature called “What Drives You MAD?” which contained actual responses to that question… READ MORE
November 23rd, 2020 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Since it looks like I’ve probably done my last job for MAD Magazine, I am going to start showing each piece I did for the magazine in chronological order here on the Monday MADness feature, and telling any stories associated with them. I know I showed a few of these recently but I’m a completist so here’s my first ever published MAD piece, from MAD #399, Nov 2000 written by Dick DeBartolo. This was not actually the first piece I ever did for the magazine. I did this one in September of 2000, and my first assignment was in June of 2000, but that one… READ MORE
