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July 1st, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Welcome to July! As far as Comic Con goes later this month, the schedule for the MAD panel and signings on Saturday are all official. Here’s the skinny… SATURDAY, JULY 24 10:00-11:00-¬¨‚Ć Mad about MAD! MAD Magazine has established itself as the original and most imitated and influential satirical publication across generations.¬¨‚Ć This fall, MAD returns to TV screens with a new show for the next generation!¬¨‚Ć Come join MAD Magazine editor John Ficarra, MAD Art Director Sam Viviano, legendary MAD artist Sergio Aragones, contemporary MAD artist Tom Richmond, MAD Story Editor/Producer Kevin Shinick and your host, MAD Creative Exec Peter Girardi, for a light-hearted… READ MORE
June 21st, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Hard to believe but we are only one month away from the start of San Diego Comic Con. I managed to attend for the first time in a few years last year, and it looks like I’ll make it again this year. I still haven’t figured out how to get a booth space or Artist’s Alley table of my own… at least not before I’m living in a “retirement community” somewhere… so you can find me at the National Cartoonists Society booth a few times during the show as well as a signing at the DC Comics booth. If and when specific times are available… READ MORE
June 18th, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
According to this article on NorthJersey.com, a new documentary on the career of the late, great Will Elder screened at the 2010 Toronto Jewish Film Festival back in April to a “pleasantly surprising” turnout. “The Mad Playboy of Art” takes a look inside the life and career of Will Elder, one of the principal founding artists for MAD Magazine and long time collaborator with Harvey Kurtzman. The film is being made by Elder’s son-in-law Gary VandenBergh. From the article: VandenBergh said that Elder was an artist who set the tone for the visual perspective role at Mad Magazine, a bi-monthly satirical magazine, which began as… READ MORE
June 15th, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
My contribution to issue #504 was an expansion of the “Toyota Story” idea by writer Desmond Devlin. Originally I did the spoofed movie poster for the MAD website, so they had me revise the image to open the two additional pages of story. I had to make the car into more of an anthropomorphic character, as well as beat up the Toy Story characters a bit more. Here is the original image: Click for a closer look… And the revised one: Then there followed two pages of “story”, which I also did in a fully painted style… sort of a cross between the actual Pixar… READ MORE
June 14th, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
On news stands June 16th and in comic book stores and subscriber mailboxes now! MAD # 504 (August 2010) Cover (Scott Nickel, Mark Frederickson) The Fundalini Pages (Dave Croatto, P.C. Vey, Jacob Lambert, Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, Tom Bunk, Jeff Kruse, Charles Akin, Darren Johnson, Gary Hallgren, Ryan Pagelow, Sam Viviano, Duck Edwing, Paul Coker, Kiernan P. Schmitt, Bob Staake ) MAD Rates the iPad (John Caldwell) Toyota Story (Desmond Devlin, Tom Richmond) Beiber Versus… (Some Photos via Dreamstime.com) A MAD Look at the Twilight Saga (Sergio Aragon?¬©s, Tom Luth) The MAD World of… Lying and Cheating (Stan Sinberg, Marc Hempel) The A-Hole Team (Uncredited)… READ MORE
June 4th, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
MAD #504 officially goes on sale on June 15th, but MAD must have released a sneak peek as these pages by the great Sergio Aragon?¬©s popped up on the internet yesterday on various Twilight fan websites: Click for a closer look… Click for a closer look… Surprisingly most of the Twilight fans loved it, judging by the comments I read. I guess they don’t take their beloved books/movies/cult too seriously after all. I have a short piece in #504 that was quite a lot of work to pull off… definitely outside my comfort zone. I’ll share once the issue hits comic book stores, which will… READ MORE
June 3rd, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
An updated tribute from a previous post a few years ago: Today is a sad anniversary. Eighteen years ago today MAD founder and longtime publisher William M. Gaines passed away at the age of 70. Working for MAD is great. The people and staff there really respect the tradition and history of the magazine. However I will always feel that I missed out on something special in that I never met or knew Bill Gaines. I started for MAD about 9 years after Bill’s passing. While MAD has of course continued since his death a chapter of it’s history closed on June 3rd, 1992. In… READ MORE
May 22nd, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
It’s been a while since news of the proposed bio-pic of the life of MAD publisher William M. Gaines saw any light of day. It’s been in the rumor mill for about 4 years now. About three years ago The MAD Blog linked to reports that Joel Eisenberg and his Iron Mountain Media had picked up the film “life rights” of Gaines and planned to co-produce a biopic based on his life. tentatively titled, “Ghoulishly Yours, William M. Gaines”. A year later director John Landis (Animal House, Blues Brothers, Trading Places, etc.) was attached to the project. Just this past week the film project reared… READ MORE
