April 23rd, 2013 | Posted in MAD Magazine
In comic book shops, on the iPad, in subscribers mailboxes and on news stands everywhere today: MAD # 521 (June 2013) Cover (Mark Fredrickson) The Fundalini Pages (Rick Tulka, Jeff Kruse, Anton Emdin, Bob Staake, Brian Gordon, Matt Lassen, John Kerschbaum, Tom Bunk, Darren Johnson, David DeGrand, Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, Paul Gilligan, Phil McAndrew) Game of Groans (Desmond Devlin, Hermann Mejia) A MAD Look at Baseball (Sergio Aragon?¬©s, Colors: Tom Luth) Planet TAD!!!!! (Tim Carvell) Overheard in Doggie Heaven (Jeff Kruse, Paul Coker) The All-American Fun N’ Gun Show (Frank Santopadre, Scott Bricher) The Darker Side of the Lighter Side of… (Dave Berg) Stuff-E-Vest… READ MORE
April 4th, 2013 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Yesterday Entertainment Weekly released an exclusive sneak peek at the cover of MAD #521, check it out here. As you can see, MAD will be pillaging Game of Thrones, which I did not do the art for… and also exercising their license to kill on “James Bond”, which I DID do the art for! Is it a parody of Skyfall? A spoof of all 50 years of 007 movies? Gratuitous caricatures of half naked Bond girls? You’ll have to wait for the issue to hit the stands to find out! Fa Fa Fa! READ MORE
March 20th, 2013 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Remember that radio interview I told you about yesterday featuring Drew Friedman, Al Jaffee, and Arnold Roth, talking about Harvey Kurtzman? Well, turns out they do have it archived and available for listening after it’s original airing. In fact, here it is: READ MORE
March 19th, 2013 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Here’s a link to a great article on the history of the movie parodies in MAD from Film Comment magazine. There are also on-line side interviews with MAD editor John Ficarra and me. READ MORE
March 16th, 2013 | Posted in General
Crave Onlines gives us an exclusive first look at the brilliant Sergio Aragon?¬©s‘ variant cover for Justice League #19. Love the MAD jammies with Spy Vs. Spy and Flip the bird. That’s the thirteenth and last one to be released! If you are interested, I have created a page with all the variant cover promotional images on them here. READ MORE
March 14th, 2013 | Posted in General
Back in January I got a call from MAD art director Sam Viviano about a side project they were working on…DC wanted to celebrate MAD‘s 60th anniversary with a series of variant covers by the Usual Gang of Idiots for thirteen of their titles. Knowing that I am a huge Batman fan, Sam suggested to the MAD editors that I get to do one of the Batman titles. I was assigned the cover of “Detective Comics”. Given my own choice, I would have picked Detective as well, as opposed to “Batman”. Detective Comics was the title I collected as a kid, and it being the… READ MORE
March 13th, 2013 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Yet another DC MAD variant cover, this one by the long-time MAD artist and current art director Sam Viviano! This one comes courtesy of Gamma Squad. READ MORE
March 12th, 2013 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Buzzfeed.com has an exclusive sneak peek of my variant cover for Detective Comics #19. This was a lot of fun and given my being a huge Batman fan getting to do the cover of Detective Comics was extra special. I am too busy today to write more about this, but Thursday I will post some pencil sketches and a closer look at the artwork. READ MORE
