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April 10th, 2014 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Clicky to embiggen… Yesterday Moviepilot.com posted a sneak peek at the splash page of MAD‘s parody of “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” written by Desmond Devlin with art by yours truly. You can check out the full splash page with text here (although it’s kind of small to read). Above is the final art for said splash. I will post a few more panels of art from the parody once the issue hits news stands on April 22nd. READ MORE
April 4th, 2014 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Like this. Sculpture by Jordu Schell, via this website. Hat tip to Dalton Vaughn and Doug Gilford‘s MAD Cover Site, Facebook edition. This is really well done, because it isn’t easy to make Alfred look convincing in three dimensions. Not only are his eyes uneven, but the center axis of his face is slightly tilted, and one side has considerably more space between the eye and hairline than the other. His ears are also lower than natural, and asymmetrical. There is a lot about his face that is ‘off” in a way that only stands out when you see a mirror image of it. Drawing… READ MORE
April 1st, 2014 | Posted in MAD Magazine
April 1st is officially Alfred E, Neuman’s birthday, so what better day to issue an update to the MAD iPad app? The app sports an all new design… for those using iOs 7 or higher, anyway. I had a chance to play around with it today and I like the new layout and especially the organization of the “Issues” menu page. You now have three different sections: All– This was previously all you had in the old design under “Issues”. It lists every issue, book or special available for download or purchase. The ones you have bought or are available to you via your subscription… READ MORE
March 21st, 2014 | Posted in MAD Magazine
I’ve been blogging about the upcoming run of MAD variant covers of DC Comics titles all week as they were released on various websites (see the complete run here). I thought I’d show a little of the process involved in the creation of my variant cover for Batman/Superman #30. The concept: The guys at MAD had some pretty specific things they wanted with this cover… in fact they wanted me to do a sort of take-off of a previous cover of an issue of Batman: The basic gag was that, rather than holding a set of chattering joke-dentures, “Alfred/Joker” would be holding his actual teeth… READ MORE
March 18th, 2014 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Harley Quinn #5 by Sergio Aragon?¬©s (colors by Tom Luth) Craveonline has a sneak peek at four of the 21 upcoming MAD variant DC comics cover: Harley Quinn #5 by Sergio Aragon?¬©s (colored by Tom Luth), Green Lantern #30 by Richard Williams, Flash #30 by Anton Emdin and Justice League #30 by Peter Kuper. Green Lantern #30 by Richard Williams Flash #30 by Anton Emdin Justice League #30 by Peter Kuper These join the earlier sneak peeks from Hermann Mejia, Al Jaffee and John Kercshbaum and and Rick Tulka and Tom Bunk from a few days ago, bringing the total early looks to nine! Mine… READ MORE
March 13th, 2014 | Posted in MAD Magazine
MAD art director Sam Viviano is featured on DC All Access showing off tiny versions of the 21 upcoming MAD variant DC Comics covers, and giving a little tour of his office. His segment begins at 6:11 of the video below, the variant cover images are too small to get a good look at, but he does show off some other artwork hanging in his office including his cameo in Hermann Mejia‘s amazing “Road to Perdition” parody splash, some hack’s lame Harry Potter art and Sam’s first artwork for MAD, the cover of MAD #223! By the way, today is Sam’s birthday! He’s 61! Today… READ MORE
March 11th, 2014 | Posted in MAD Magazine
USA Today has an exclusive look at two more of the upcoming 21 MAD variant covers for the April run of DC Comics. The two released as a sneak peek today are the covers of Superman/Wonder Woman #7 by Tom Bunk (pictured) and Batgirl #30 by Rick Tulka with (colors by Carl Peterson). Click the link to see Rick’s Batgirl cover featuring Poison Ivy. By the way, in case you haven’t noticed all these MAD variant covers feature villains rather than heroes. READ MORE
March 5th, 2014 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Art by Hermann Mejia courtesy of CBR.com In April of last year DC Comics did a series of “MAD” variant covers for thirteen of their “New 52” titles done by the Usual Gang of Idiots. They are doing a follow up series this year, but this time on 21 different titles! CBR has an exclusive first look at a couple of the covers, including the one above for Detective Comics #30 by Hermann Mejia. Check out a bigger version of the Mejia cover and cover art by Al Jaffee and John Kerschbaum on CBR.com. Here are the titles getting the MAD treatment this year: JUSTICE… READ MORE
