MAD Magazine
July 29th, 2019 | Posted in MAD Magazine
This is going to be a long post because this story took place over the course of 18 months, had not a few twists and turns including my doing the final art TWICE, and ended up being something very different than what it started out to be. Plus I’ve been keeping this a secret for all this time, so I want to tell the story right. Bear with me… In March of 2018 I received an email from Chris Call of Call Props, who was serving as “Property Master” for Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming film “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”. Chris had found me via… READ MORE
July 24th, 2019 | Posted in MAD Magazine
MAD posted a small sneak peek of the “Lousy Law” parody art today on their Instagram. This is a cropped panel from the five page parody of the fictional TV show Leonardo DiCaprio’s character in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” was the star of in the late 50’s/early 60’s. I’ll post more sneak peeks once the issue hit’s the stands (that’s the last time I’ll be able to say THAT) on Aug 6th. READ MORE
July 23rd, 2019 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Last night on the Jimmy Kimmel show “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” director Quentin Tarantino was very enthusiastic about the next issue of MAD Magazine (that part starts at the 6:35 mark). I will share the story about how this all came about and share the artwork after the issue comes out on Aug 5th (or earlier if MAD does the official reveal themselves). READ MORE
July 16th, 2019 | Posted in MAD Magazine
I’m off to San Diego Comic Con! My “exclusive comic con print” went pretty well in Atlanta last weekend, so I’m doing another one for SDCC. In honor of the season three release a little over a week ago, the exclusive print for SDCC 2019 is an oversized print (13″ x 19″) of the splash page from MAD‘s parody of “Stranger Things from issue 548. Limited to only 20 prints. Hand signed and numbered. ONLY available at San Diego Comic Con this weekend. If I don’t sell them all the remainder will be shredded. Hope to see you in San Diego!! READ MORE
July 15th, 2019 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Apologies for the lack of posts around here recently. I’ve been either on the road or on deadline. In fact I’m on the latter today and the former again tomorrow! In the meantime today’s Monday MADness features a look at my final art for MAD‘s parody of “School of Rock” written by Dick DeBartolo from MAD #438, Feb. 2004. READ MORE
July 8th, 2019 | Posted in MAD Magazine
What constitutes my very first MAD job depends on your definition of “first”. Would that be the first thing I was ever assigned to do and then paid for doing it by the magazine? The first thing I ever did that appeared under the MAD brand in any form (i.e. on their website?) or the first thing I did that actually saw print in an issue? Technically the very first job I ever got from MAD was assigned to me 19 years ago last month (June 2000). It was a feature called “MAD‘s Cable TV Viewing Odds”, written by John Biederman. This job was what… READ MORE
July 4th, 2019 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Yesterday contributors to MAD Magazine officially got the news that, after 67 years of continuous publication that began with Harvey Kurtzman‘s brilliant comic book and eventually evolved into the magazine that forever changed the world of satire and humor, MAD will stop publishing all new content after issue #10 in October. The magazine will continue with classic reprint material and SOME new content under new cover art but will only be sold via the direct market and current subscriptions. News stand distribution will cease. Subscriptions are still being solicted and will continue with the new reprint/new stuff mix. DC will continue to publish books and… READ MORE
June 28th, 2019 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Well not really lost but not published in MAD either. While MAD did parodies of all three of “The Hobbit” films only two ended up in the magazine. The third was done as an original piece for a special “Loot Crate” edition of MAD. Written by Desmond Devlin, only Loot Crate subscribers (and collectors on eBay) got a copy of this 6 page spoof. It happened to feature one of the craziest two page spreads I ever did for MAD… the battle scene with the Five Armies: Here are the pencil sketches for this project: READ MORE
