MAD Magazine
February 18th, 2019 | Posted in MAD Magazine
In subscribers mailboxes for a week or so already, on newsstands everywhere tomorrow and in comic book shops and digital (maybe… your guess is as good as mine) this week! Cover (M. Wartella) Merry Poopins Goes to the White House (Ian Boothby, Tom Richmond) Spy vs. Spy (Peter Kuper) Let’s have Fun with a Hospital Visit! (Teresa Burns Parkhurst) Frosty the Snowperson (Jon Adams) If You See Something, Say Something (Stan Sinberg) The Wisenheim Museum (William Wray) Modern Steps to Make It Official (Casey Boyd & Allie Goertz, A Person) A MAD Look at the Future (Sergio Aragonés, Colors: Tom Luth) The Potrzebie of Love… READ MORE
February 11th, 2019 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Comedian Tom Green is sort of back in the public eye right now being a contestant on “Celebrity Big Brother”. Coincidentally he appeared in my favorite panel from my very first MAD job… the first assigned to me that is. It was actually the sixth feature I drew that saw print in the magazine. MAD would sometimes give a kind of “test” assignment to new artists. You got paid for it and everything, but the subject was usually an “evergreen” piece, meaning it could be run anytime as it was not of a timely nature (thus “evergreen”). This was from “MAD‘s Cable TV Viewing Odds”… READ MORE
February 5th, 2019 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Here’s a little slice of the artwork I did for the upcoming MAD #6, which should be in subscriber’s mailboxes soon (subscribers get the issues WAAAY early) and officially on news stands (all 12 of them left) on Feb 19th! By the way, this image in no way identifies the target but this from a movie parody (sort of, kind of, not really) written by Ian Boothby. READ MORE
February 4th, 2019 | Posted in MAD Magazine
MAD just released a look at the cover of MAD #6, along with a few other sneak peeks of the upcoming issue. The cover art is by M. Wartella who, among a lot of work for The Village Voice and many other publications, did animation shorts for every episode of the MAD show on Cartoon Network. Check out MAD‘s Instagram page for other sneak peeks, as well as this look at Desmond Devlin and Anton Emdin‘s great splash for the parody of “The Good Place”. I also did a parody, sort of, in this next issue. I’ll see if I am allowed to share a… READ MORE
December 29th, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Well, a surprise to me anyway… and I drew the damn thing! The Chicago Tribune website ran a story this week from the Post-Tribune of North Indiana, about about MAD‘s doing a spoof of “A Christmas Story” in issue #5, ostensibly for the film’s 35th anniversary (although that was just a coincidence I think, MAD just wanted to do a classic Christmas film for the holiday issue). Jean Shepherd, on whose writings the film was based, was originally from nearby Hammond, Indiana. I learned something interesting from the article. The above panel was from a scene in the film inside the department store, where Ralphie’s… READ MORE
December 11th, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine
In subscriber mailboxes already, digital format and comic books shops tomorrow, and on news stands everywhere today! Cover– Michael Koelsch A Listless Story (Desmond Devlin, Tom Richmond) A MAD Look at Christmas (Sergio Aragonés, Colors: Tom Luth) The MAD 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2018 Hollywood Harassers (Mary Trainor, Terry Wolfinger) White House Corruption (Tammy Golden, Paul Wee) Detention Centers Put Children in Cages (Casey Boyd, Ed Steckley) Guilty of Being Black (Casey Boyd, Timothy Shamey) Michelle Wolf Hosts Correspondent’s Dinner (Tammy Golden, Scott Bricher) Marco Rubio Debates Parkland Students (Matt Cohen, Darío Brizuela) A Nuclear Screw Up (Desmond Devlin, Mark Fredrickson) Flotus… READ MORE
December 10th, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Here’s a sneak peek at one of the panels from my piece in the next issue of MAD, dues out Wednesday! READ MORE
December 6th, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine
MAD #5 is the last issue of 2018, and as such it includes public disclosure of stats like circulation figures. According to the figures (via Mike Slaubaugh‘s excellent MAD Lists website), total paid circulation increased for the fourth straight year (122,908 to 133,924 to 139,725 to 150,195). A modest increase but still a nice trend upward, and an increase of almost 30,000 since 2015. More people reading is always better than less. In other list news, I still remain 373 issues behind leader Al Jaffee for most appearances in MAD (Al’s at 505). Assuming Al retires after this new issue is out, that I am… READ MORE
