MAD Magazine
June 14th, 2016 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Over on one of the several MAD Magazine Facebook fan groups someone shared a link to my sneak peek of the parody of “Batman v Superman” in the current issue. Someone then posted the following comment: Were parodies always months late? They seemed to be more current. I hear that now and again, and I’ve blogged before about how the distribution of films these days is very different from the 60’s-90’s, when films opened in bigger cities and trickled down to smaller ones over the course of several months. It might seem like MAD got their movie parodies into the magazine faster because the films… READ MORE
June 13th, 2016 | Posted in MAD Magazine
This week’s Monday MADness is a sneak peek at my art from MAD #540’s parody of “Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice”, written by Desmond Devlin. Splash page above and a sample panel from each page below: Whaddya mean you want to read the jokes in the word balloons? Whaddya think this is, a furshlugginer library?? This issue is on news stands tomorrow… so go pick up a copy, clod! READ MORE
June 6th, 2016 | Posted in MAD Magazine
In subscribers mailboxes and via digital now, in comic book shops Wednesday, and on news stands June 14th!!: Cover (Mark Fredrickson) Letters and Tomatoes (Ed.) The Fundalini Pages (Kenny Keil, Jose Garibaldi, Mike Morse, John Martz, Dick DeBartolo, Emily Flake, Jonathan Edwards, Desmond Devlin, Stephen Silver, Jeff Kruse, Rich Powell, Alison Grambs, Jason Adam Katzenstein, Sarah Chalek) The Trumpalini Pages (Uncredited) Battyman v Stuporman: Dumb and Joyless (Desmond Devlin, Tom Richmond) Spy vs. Spy (Peter Kuper) Donald Trump vs. The Bible (Desmond Devlin, Ward Sutton) Planet TAD!!!!! (Tim Carvel) MAD’s Tom Bunk Visits Coney Island (Who else???: Tom Bunk) New Olympic Events Americans are Sure… READ MORE
April 19th, 2016 | Posted in MAD Magazine
As promised, here’s a little sneak peek at the monster 9 pager I drew in the lastest issue of MAD, written by David Richards. Whaddya mean you want to read all the jokes and gags in the word boxes? What do you think this is, a furshlugginer library? Go out and buy the issue, clod! READ MORE
April 12th, 2016 | Posted in MAD Magazine
From MAD #84, Photo: Lester Krauss The Usual Gang of Idiots lost a beloved member on Saturday with the news that former MAD production manager and art director Leonard “The Beard” Brenner passed away. The above image is one of many photo gags and fake ads in which Lenny appeared, so MAD readers were familiar with his bearded visage even if they were unaware of the contributions he made behind the scenes. Lenny was with MAD from 1958 until he retired in 1995, and during that time there were very few pages of the magazine that he did not work on in some capacity. Layouts,… READ MORE
April 11th, 2016 | Posted in MAD Magazine
I was asked by some readers to share the process of creating the cover art for MAD #539, so although there is really not that much to it, here you go: I was thrilled to get a call from MAD art director Sam Viviano asking me if I was willing to do the cover art for the next issue. Actually it was more like him asking if I could possibly fit it into my schedule, since he was well aware I was in the middle of doing the art on MAD‘s parody of “The Force Awakes”, which was nine pages and the longest parody in… READ MORE
April 10th, 2016 | Posted in General
Q: Congrats on doing your first cover for MAD, but my initial reaction to seeing your post was “this was his FIRST cover???” Why did it take so long for you to get a cover? A: MAD has always tended to use different illustrators for the covers than they do interiors. Norman Mingo, Richard Williams, Kelly Freas, and a host of others, most recently Mark Fredrickson, have done basically nothing but cover art… but a lot of it. Mort Drucker and Jack Rickard are the only two regulars from the interior of the magazine that have done 30 or more covers, and their styles were… READ MORE
April 6th, 2016 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Newsarama posted a sneak peek of the cover feature and cover art from MAD #539 recently. As you can see, MAD spoofs the “adult coloring book” craze with a 4 pager with art by Timothy Shamey and cover by… me! Yes, my first official issue cover. I did two covers for the now defunct MAD Kids, one for a “Superman” special issue and two of the most recent “Bookazines”, but this is first time I got to do the cover of the actual magazine. Covers are rare birds for several reasons. First, there are only six a year. Second, they are usually of the hyper-realistic… READ MORE
