MAD Magazine
February 5th, 2024 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Happy Monday! Time to continue on with our excruciatingly slow crawl through the decades of my work at MAD Magazine. The force is definitely NOT with us this week as we look back again at MAD #439, June 2016. Why a second look? Because I did two things for this issue! Looking back, MAD #439 was a groundbreaker for me for two reasons. As I detailed in our last installment, it was the first time I got to do the art for the cover of a regular issue of MAD. The second reason was for another bucket list moment… doing the art for a parody of… READ MORE
January 22nd, 2024 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Yes… it’s the moment you have all been dreading! It’s the return that no one asked for of my Monday MADness retrospective of the work I did for MAD Magazine. If you’ll recall in our last episode we looked at MAD‘s spoof of “The Hunger Games: The Mocking Jay Parts 1 & 2” from MAD #538. Time to move on to MAD #539, June 2016, which featured my first ever actual MAD cover! Covers are rare birds for several reasons. First, at that time there were only six a year. Second, Covers are usually of the hyper-realistic style of art and as Mark Fredrickson is a master… READ MORE
December 18th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
It’s another grody Monday, dudes and dudettes! That means it’s time for a totally tubular trip down the gnarly path that was my work for MAD Magazine. As if! This week we take another rad side trip from the magazine itself to look at my second “bookazine” cover, this one for the “MAD Spoof’s the 80’s: Special Collector’s Edition (Spring 2016)”, which is a fancy title for “here’s a bunch of reprinted stuff from about 30 years ago we’d like you to pay to read again.” Wait, that’s kind of MAD’s current business model, isn’t it? Gag me with a spoon. Not much to really… READ MORE
December 12th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
I know what you are thinking… Tom forgot about his “Monday MADness” post this week, and you are doubtless rejoicing that you are not to be subjected to yet another look back in the archives of my work for MAD Magazine. Well, I didn’t and you are! Time and family circumstances just delayed our usual MAD flashback foolishness. This week we are back to the stuff I did for the actual magazine with yet another Hunger Games movie spoof. This time my CLAPTRAP cohort Desmond Devlin and I spoof BOTH Parts 1 and 2 of “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay” in one fell swoop… mostly because… READ MORE
December 4th, 2023 | Posted in General
Welcome good citizens to another Moronic Monday of Mayhem as we look back at my work for MAD Magazine! We are actually going to take another break from work for actual issues of the magazine with yet another side project I did at this point in our chronological crawl, being spring 2016. The MAD folks came up with an idea to do a series of parodies of children’s books set in the world of DC comics superheroes (spoiler: MAD is owned by DC!) They asked me to do the art for the first book, a spoof of Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd‘s classic Goodnight… READ MORE
November 27th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Monday MADness is here again, but this week we have a look at a side project for the MAD gang I did in 2016 that was published between MAD #537 and #538. These publications were called “Bookazines” and were 96-ish page square bound “specials” usually billed as “Special Collector’s Editions”, and contained reprinted material around some theme. This one was entitled “MAD Presents Oscar Winners (and Losers!)”, and mostly contained movie spoofs of Oscar winning movies plus a smattering of other movie related features. I got the cover assignment, which I suspect was a bit of a trial run for a “real” cover assignment that… READ MORE
November 20th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
May the farce be with you! It’s time for another brush with the dark side as we have a look back and my work for MAD Magazine. This week we look at the second of two pieces I did the art for in MAD #537, Feb 2016. This second feature is called the “ForceSonic 92-cm Lightsaber Manual”, and was written by Scott Maiko. I was pretty excited to get to do this feature because it was spoofing “Star Wars”, and I have been a Star Wars geek since I was 11 in 1977 and saw the original film 56 times in the local theater that… READ MORE
November 13th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
It’s another moronic Monday, and another look back at my work for MAD. This week we have a peek at one of “MAD‘s 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2015″. I did the art for Dumb Thing #13, which was about the bribery scandal involving the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). In May of 2015, more than two dozen FIFA officials and associates were indicted for what was revealed to be a more than two decade long scheme of accepting over $150 million in bribes, in part for the awarding of hosting rights to the World Cup. A bunch of people went to jail.… READ MORE
