Monday MADness
June 6th, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
What?!? Monday AGAIN!?? Hold on to your W-2’s, team! This week we look back at MAD poking fun at McDonald’s and their “Hamburger University” with this two page feature from MAD #491, July 2008 entitled “What’s being taught at Other Corporate Colleges! Written by John Samony and Scott Maiko. John only had one other piece in MAD, which I did not draw, but Scott was a pretty prolific writer for the magazine, especially from about issue 400 on. I only worked on four features that he wrote, though. This was one of them. Scott must have been a NYC guy, because I don’t think he… READ MORE
May 23rd, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Live from New York, it’s Monday! Yes, I know this isn’t from “Saturday Night Live”, but it’s close enough. This week’s MADness is a look at MAD‘s parody of the TV show “30 Rock”, written by Arnie Kogen and first appearing in MAD #490, June 2008. So, what’s with the odd looking monkey I added in the lower center of the splash on the final? Well, if you remember a few issues ago was the “All Monkey Issue”, and I did the art on a piece showing the MAD staff as monkeys. After the issue came out, the folks at MAD decided they should have added former art director Nadina Simon in that group.… READ MORE
May 16th, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
It’s Monday AGAIN!?! It seems like this happens every week. In today’s installment of our incredibly tedious hike through the twisted trails that was my work for MAD Magazine, we have a look at a spoof of a TV show about a woman who forgets everything about herself… which is appropriate because no one remembers anything about this show! Actually it got high ratings its first season but was cancelled during its second season, but it wasn’t exactly ‘Friends”. “Slomantha, Who Cares?” was written by MAD‘s MADdest Writer Dick DeBartolo and was first published in MAD #489, May 2008. This is another job where I… READ MORE
May 9th, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
It’s Monday, and we aren’t monkeying around… or maybe we are! It’s time to go bananas as we swing into another feces-flinging look at my work for MAD Magazine. This week we peek at one of the oddest and most challenging jobs I ever did for MAD. “Meet the New Staff of MAD” appeared in MAD #488 also known as the “Monkey Issue”, and was written by Jeff Kruse. #488 was an “All Monkey Issue”, filled from front to back with gags about monkeys and apes. The issue even had a parody of the TV show “Monk” with Mort Drucker drawing a monkey instead of the lead… READ MORE
May 2nd, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
“Save the Cheerleader, Save the World?”… We were barely able to save this parody! It’s time for another episode of our relentless time-travelling trip through my work at MAD Magazine! This week we have a look at another TV parody, this time skewering the show “Heroes”. Written by my CLAPTRAP cohort Desmond Devlin, this spoof first appeared in MAD #487, March 2008. My pencil roughs were truly “roughs” for this job. I was trying to attempt to spend less time with the comps and do more of the actual drawing things out on the final boards. As a result, I was reduced to labeling the… READ MORE
April 4th, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
It’s F#%*ing monday already??!? It’s time to make you another offer you can’t refuse! This parody just fell off the back of a truck! Fuggedaboutit! Our hit job this week is a mash up style parody of “America’s Top Model” and “The Sopranos” entitled “America’s Top Mobster.” Written by my CLAPTRAP cohort Desmond Devlin and first appearing in MAD #482, Oct 2007. If I remember right, I had to do this piece in about 2 weeks, and some of the time I was travelling, so this was a seriously rushed job, which probably explains the preponderance of monochrome coloring. I suspect I colored this whole… READ MORE
March 28th, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Pikachu, I choose YOU! Gotta catch ’em all with this week’s look at… oh wait. That’s Pokemon. WTH is “Yu-Gi-Oh” anyway? I didn’t have any idea in 2007 when I did this job, and I still don’t. But, that didn;t stop me from doing the art for “Celebrity Yu-Gi-Oh Cards”, written by Michael Arnold and appearing in MAD #481, June 2007. This appeared in the same issue as last week’s “Paris Hilton” one pager, making this the third time I had multiple pieces in a single issue of MAD. However this was the one and only time I worked with writer Michael Arnold, who is… READ MORE
March 21st, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
It’s Monday, and that means another trip to solitary confinement as we continue serving time on our sentence of having to look back at my twenty years of criminally contemptible work for MAD Magazine. This week we look at a one page feature called “Things Shouted out to Paris Hilton as She Left Prison”, which first appeared in MAD #481, Sept 2007. Everyone remembers when super-talented international superstar Paris Hilton was incarcerated in 2007 on trumped up charges by a corrupt and jealous L.A. Police Department, right? No? That’s okay, no one else does either. Nor cares. Actually Paris was arrested for a DUI and… READ MORE
