MAD Magazine
December 19th, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
It’s time for another MAD Monday stop on the long, exhausting and utterly pointless trek through my work at MAD Magazine. This week we have a look at another TV parody, “Parks and Recreation” written by the inimitable Arnie Kogen and first appearing in MAD #511, October 2011. This was the last parody in what was, for me, the longest run of consecutive issues of MAD featuring a full movie or TV parody with my art. If you count “The Wizard of O” (and I do) this is eight issues in a row with a “continuity” drawn by me in it. A personal best. I… READ MORE
December 5th, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Here we go with another pathetic peek back at my work for MAD Magazine. This week is a look at one of the more unique movie parodies I’ve done for MAD, “Green Lantern” from MAD #510, August 2011. written by Desmond Devlin. It was not unique because of the film, but because of a rare instance of the MAD editors cutting a gag of mine, some experimenting on my part with my process, and a bizarre request for a cameo. First, the MAD edit: This was my pencil rough for the splash page: The “finger” ring construct was my gag. It’s not very often the… READ MORE
November 28th, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
It’s another MAD Monday, which means it’s also time for another step on our long and excruciating wander through my work at MAD Magazine! This week we look at another TV parody, this time of the Emmy winning comedy “Modern Family”, written by Arnie Kogen and first appearing in MAD #509, June 2011. My very first job in published work was in 1990 for a comic book company called NOW Comics doing pencils for a title called “Married… with Children”, which was based on the popular FOX TV show. I did about 600 pages of that title and it’s related comic book specials, so I… READ MORE
November 14th, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Break out the bourbon and light up your smokes, it’s time for another look back at the work I did for MAD magazine! This week we revisit one of my all time favorite parodies I ever did for the magazine, a spoof of the TV series “Mad Men”, written by Arnie Kogen and first appearing in MAD #508, April 2011. Why is this one of my favorites? First off, I loved the show so it was not a chore watching episodes and getting to know the characters, which helps a lot of both the caricatures and coming up with insider gags. Second, the show was… READ MORE
October 24th, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
THE HALLS ARE ALIVE, WITH THE SOUND OF MUSIC (…AND THE SMELL OF ARMPITS)!! Get ready to duck those flying slushies, Gleeks! We’re back at it this week with another tone deaf performance of a moldy oldie of a look back at my work for MAD Magazine. Today we revisit MAD‘s parody of the TV show “Glee”, written by the great Arnie Kogen and first appearing in MAD #506, December 2010. This show was a favorite of my wife, The Lovely Anna, and my kids. In fact this parody is rife with cameos of people I know, including my kids in the splash page. On… READ MORE
October 22nd, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
I just got back from attending the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in Bowness-on-Windemere in the United Kingdom. I brought a stack of MAD‘s 70th Anniversray issue (no. 28) to sign after doing a talk, and brought the leftovers home. So, I have a few to offer for a ridiculously inflated price in the Studio Store! I’ll even deface it with my signature! MAD #28 features 20 pages of new content, including Desmond Devlin and my spoof of the film “The Batman”. Get them while they last… READ MORE
October 18th, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
We’re going to take a break from the seemingly endless monotony of the weekly look back at my work from MAD and share something I wrote for my newsletter “The Ink Stained Wretch” (which you should be subscribed to!). Last week we took a peek behind the curtain of how MAD movie parodies were done “back in the day” as far as obtaining references from the films before we all had instant access to thousands of images with a few keystrokes. I’ll be the first to admit that my job doing movie and TV parodies is a lot easier today than when Mort Drucker, Jack Davis,… READ MORE
October 13th, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Back in 2019 MAD stopped publishing original content (mostly), and I thought I had perhaps done my last movie/TV parody for the magazine. Prior to that I had pretty freely sold my original MAD artwork, both here on the website and at Comic Cons. It occurred to me after the “no new material” announcement that I wasn’t going to be making any more of these for MAD, so I basically stopped selling my originals. I thought it best to hang on to them. That said I thought it was time to make some of these originals available for sale, and as subscribers you all get a first look at what’s… READ MORE
