The great Sergio Aragon?¬©s is celebrating 50 years as a professional cartoonist, which since 1963 include his contributions to MAD Magazine. The Huffington Post has an artcile about Sergio and his new book MAD’s Greatest Artists: Sergio Aragon?¬©s: Five Decades of His Finest Works (which, BTW, is as fantastic as you would expect). Congratulations mi amigo… and here’s to many more years! READ MORE
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ri1Vz37omA[/youtube] Some time ago I wrote about a documentary in the works about the great Will Elder, who’s work for MAD helped set the tone and style of humor the magazine would become famous for. I recently got an e-mail from the film’s creator Gary VandenBerg telling me about a donation site they have put up in order to try and raise funds to finish the film and get it out to the public. If you are interested in helping out, you can visit this site for more details. They’ve got about $14,000 and change to go and 46 days to get there. Different donation… READ MORE
As promised, here’s a look at a bit of the art for the parody of “Glee” in the just-released MAD #506: Click for a closer look… My kids are big Glee fans so they ended up in the splash page (Gabrielle and Tom in upper left on stair landing, college girl Victoria to right of “Sue Sylvester” with her boyfriend Pat). Oldest girl Elizabeth doesn’t like Glee but if I ever do a “Roseanne” parody she’s in. I had a lot of fun with this one. READ MORE
Last night’s episode of MAD on the Cartoon Network had one of the segments I worked on… this one was called “Batman Family Feud”. Here is some of the art I did for the animators to work with: I’m not sure why they decided to go with a combination of the 1989 movie Michael Keaton Batman, the “Batman Begins”/”Dark Knight Returns” Michael Caine Alfred and the 60’s TV show Robin and Batgirl. The Riddler they wanted to be generic, and neither Frank Gorshin nor Jim Carrey. I think these drawings represent the style of finishes that work best with the animation needs, are are the… READ MORE
In mailboxes and comic shops this week and on news stands October 19th: MAD # 506 (December 2010) Cover (Mark Fredrickson) The Fundalini Pages (Jeff Kruse, Mort Drucker, Joe Masterman, Evan Dorkin & Sarah Dyer, Jacob Lambert, Bob Staake, Eric Scott, Rick Tulka, Scott Nickel, Matthew A. Cohen, Angelo Torres, Brian & Sean Farrelly, Anton Emdin, Dick DeBartolo, J.C. Duffy, Jack Syracuse, Dave Croatto, Ward Sutton, Corey Pandolph) Glee-tarded (Arnie Kogen, Tom Richmond) A MAD Look At The Oil Spill (Sergio Aragon?¬©s, Tom Luth) RosettaStone- Mel Gibson Domestic Abuse Edition (A MAD Ad Parody) A Beginner’s Guide to a More Prosperous Career in Panhandling (John… READ MORE
Last night’s Cartoon Network’s MAD episode featured a segment with some of my artwork… the “Extreme Home Makeover: Fortress of Solitude Edition”. Here is a sampling of some of the art I did for it: According to the Cartoon Network’s schedule, next week’s episode will also have one of the segments I worked on… “The Batman Family Feud”. READ MORE
A great article on a great cartoonist: Al Jaffe in the NY Times. Al’s getting a lot of press lately now that his book Al Jaffee’s MAD LIFE is now available… in fact you can order it here. My copy is on the way. Al Jaffee is one of the true geniuses of visual humor, and at 89 is still sharp as the proverbial tack and producing great work. To say Al’s life has been “eventful” would be the ultimate stupid answer to a snappy question, if you’ll pardon the reversal. The article linked above touches briefly on what has been a life of epically… READ MORE
MAD writer extraordinaire Desmond Devlin sent me a link recently to this fantastic Flickr “set” entitled “The Art of Jack Davis” which features some great quality scans of about 200 pieces of artwork by one of the greatest cartoonists and illustrators who ever lived. Warning: do NOT click on the above link unless you are prepared to spend at least an hour perusing some little seen gems including album covers, posters, advertising art, MAD work and much more. READ MORE
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