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July 17th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Giddyup, cowboy! It’s MONDAY! Time for another rootin’, tootin’ look back at the steaming pile of cow $#!t that was my work for MAD Magazine! This week we wrap up 2014 with another piece from MAD’s annual “20 Dumbest People, Events, and Things” of the year. We clock in at number 14 with a rare fully digitally painted piece, written by my CLAPTRAP cohort Desmond Devlin and first appearing in MAD #531, Feb 2015. There’s not much to discuss here. This is a spoof of the movie poster for the Seth McFarlane film “A Million ways to Die in the West” ridiculing Cliven Bundy and… READ MORE
July 10th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Wake up and hit the showers, jailbirds! It’s another MAD Monday, And that means it’s time for another look back at the hard time in the hole that was my work for MAD Magazine. Don’t worry, you are not really incarcerated serving life in a hellhole of despair and misery… it just feel that way every time you see these posts. Last week we looked at a spoof of a TV show that was among my least favorite to have done for MAD. This week it’s a 180 degree swing, with a gander at one of my all time favorite MAD jobs. Here’s MAD‘s parody… READ MORE
June 26th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Welcome to Monday, and another edition of the least inventive ongoing blog series ever, a chronological crawl through my work at MAD Magazine! Speaking of inventions, this week we look at another another uninventive TV show about inventors and investors, “Shark Tank”. It’s uninventive because it’s based on the Canadian show “Dragon’s Den” which is in turn a rip off the the Japanese show “Money Tigers”. This spoof was written by MAD‘s MADdest writer Dick DeBartolo and first appeared in MAD #529, Oct 2014. In a rare turn of events, I have a saved scan of the finished inks on this splash, before coloring… For… READ MORE
June 19th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Welcome to another miserable Monday, and our continuing slog through the slimy, putrid, vermin-invested swamp that is my work for MAD Magazine. This week we return to the world of TV satires with this look back at MAD‘s spoof of the first season of “True Detective”… you know, back when the show was good and didn’t have completely indecipherable storylines, huge plot holes, and Vince Vaughn? This parody was written by the great Arnie Kogen, and first appeared in MAD #528, August 2014. This splash features a few cameos by MAD staffers. The photographer on the left is MAD associate art director Ryan Flanders, and… READ MORE
June 12th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”– Bilbo Baggins. Truer words were never spoken, especially regarding this seemingly never ending slog through my work for MAD Magazine! Here’s we are… another Monday and another look back at a middling art job on another middle earth film parody. This time it’s “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug”, written by my CLAPTRAP cohort Desmond Devlin and first appearing in MAD #527, June 2014. I often use this splash page as an example of how… READ MORE
June 5th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Here we go with another ridiculous look back at my work for MAD magazine! We are entering 2014 in our little chronological trip, and this week we take a gray and dreary trudge through the dystopian world of “The Hunger Games” with MAD‘s spoof of the second film “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, written by my CLAPTRAP collaborator Desmond Devlin and first appearing in MAD #526, April 2014. I had some fun on this splash page. The scene called for the crowd to do the “three fingered salute” from the film that was a sign solidarity against the “Capitol” and support for the rebellious protagonist… READ MORE
May 22nd, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
It’s Monday, and you know what that means! Yes, for most people it means you had to get up and go to work… but that’s the good news! The bad news is that it’s time for yet another sickening look back at my work for MAD Magazine. This week we have a peek at the second piece I had in MAD #525 (Feb 2014), a parody of the TV show “The Following”, written by the great Arnie Kogen. As I foreshadowed last week, with this particular assignment I tried something different I had never attempted before. So what was this experimental technique I tried, and why… READ MORE
May 15th, 2023 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Welcome to Monday, and another nauseatingly nostalgic look back at my work for MAD magazine! Nostalgic? Seems like current events to me! French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr once wrote “the more things change the more they stay the same”… or maybe that was Jon Bon Jovi. Anyway this piece was part of MAD‘s “Dumbest People, Events, and Things of 2013” from MAD #525. Written by Jay Rath. This was 2013, and here we are in 2023 looking at the same garbage on Capitol Hill. Poor Rick Meyerowitz… his classic illustration for the Animal House movie poster might be the most parodied movie poster ever. MAD got in on the action with this… READ MORE
