MAD Magazine
November 6th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
It’s another MAD Monday, and we are one step closer to the end of this seemingly endless look back at my work for MAD Magazine. This week we get away from the world of movie and TV parodies and have a peek at a feature article called “Home Renovations: HGTV vs. Real Life”, written by the marvelously talented Teresa Burns Parkhurst and appearing in MAD #536, Dec 2015. Most people who are familiar with my work in MAD think first of the movie and TV parodies, and would assume the majority of the work I did for the magazine were those kinds of “continuity” spoofs.… READ MORE
October 30th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Welcome to another Monday. It’s bad enough that it’s the start of another miserable work week, but you also have to be subjected to another episode of our look back at my work for MAD magazine AND on top of that it’s yet another spoof of a Marvel movie! However, as we are nearing the end of the line, we have this consolation… this is the last full and actual parody of a Marvel film MAD ever did. This was written by my partner in CLAPTRAP crime Desmond Devlin, and first appeared in MAD #535, Oct 2015. What’s that you say? This was not the… READ MORE
October 23rd, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Welcome back to Monday MADness! For those following along at home, this is where I waste your time and valuable brain cells sharing the work I did for MAD Magazine over the years in chronological order. I haven’t one of these since late August, much to the relief of the half dozen people that actually still read this blog! Bad news–I’m back and here’s another entry on this long and utterly pointless trail of travesty. Here’s a look at MAD‘s spoof of the Showtime show “Ray Donovan”, written by the great Arnie Kogen and first appearing in MAD #534, August 2015. As I was working… READ MORE
September 6th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
For the “Sketch of the Week” this week I’m sharing some caricatures I did for the upcoming documentary film “When We Went MAD”. A lot of people were interviewed for the documentary, or footage of them was being used, and a number of MAD artists were asked to do caricatures of the interviewees. There are the five people I was assigned (everyone did one of Bill Gaines). READ MORE
August 28th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Hooyah! It’s Monday, and that means it’s time for another off-target look back at my work for MAD Magazine. This week we shoot and miss with another MAD movie parody, this time of the film “American Sniper”, written by David Shayne and first appearing in MAD #533, June 2015. This was the issue of MAD that was guest edited by “Weird Al” Yankovic, so it was mandatory to include a cameo of Al in every feature. In this case David actually wrote him into the final panel, delivering the last line of the parody. The concept of this parody was to feature two opposing political… READ MORE
August 21st, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
It’s Monday! Time for another moronic look back at my work for MAD! This episode features a lost Hobbit movie parody… Well not really lost but not published in an actual issue of 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. Loot Crate, if you are not familiar, is a grab bag (okay… grab BOX) program where you receive a box full of… READ MORE
August 14th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
After several weeks of never being in town to post one of these, we are back to our terribly tedious but thorough timeline trudge through my work at MAD Magazine. We are now entering 2015, and here’s another spoof of what was then the new frontier… streaming service television! This was another Netflix show, “House of Cards”, which depicted the world of heinous, criminal and corrupt politicians in Washington D.C… ah, 2015! How innocent we all were back then thinking this sort of thing was fiction. This appeared in MAD #532, April 2015. Not much to say about this job except the show featured a… READ MORE
July 24th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Not even San Diego Comic-Con can keep the moronic mess that is Monday MADness down (but it does delay it several hours). This week we look at the second piece I did that appeared in MAD #531, Feb 2015. I originally did the art on this one page gag piece for MAD back in 2014 for their website, turnaround time 14 hours. That was rare thing back then, but a precursor to the new MAD website where they did quick turnaround gag cartoons all the time. Writer uncredited, which means one of the staffers wrote it. MAD ended up printing this in issue #531. Here’s a look at the pencil (ok,… READ MORE
