Monday MADness
November 16th, 2020 | Posted in MAD Magazine
With Desmond Devlin and I doing our CLAPTRAP book project to keep the movie parody comics genre alive, I thought we’d take a look at my very first movie parody in MAD. This spoof of the four time Academy Award winning film “Traffic” was written by Arnie Kogen, and appeared in MAD #405, May 2001. Clicky any image to embiggen… I did three movie spoofs (and one TV spoof) for Cracked magazine before starting with MAD, so this one was not my first actual movie parody printed in a humor magazine, but it was the first one in MAD. If you’ve ever seen “Traffic”, you’ll… READ MORE
November 9th, 2020 | Posted in MAD Magazine
In October of 2000 MAD was putting together it’s annual “MAD 20 People, Events and Things” issue and I was assigned the art for the obligatory page making fun of the presidential election of that year, George W. Bush versus Al Gore, written by Desmond Devlin. The issue was going to press on Nov. 8th, the day after the election. Not knowing who was going to win, I was asked to do two versions of the image, one with Bush being sworn in and one with Gore, showing the appropriate despondent other candidate and new first lady as well. Here were the images I did: Since the print date was… READ MORE
November 2nd, 2020 | Posted in MAD Magazine
With today’s announcement that Des and I will be doing a parody of Toy Story 4 for CLAPTRAP, here’s a look at some of the Pixar-related pieces I did for MAD. While MAD never did an actual full parody of any Pixar films, they did do a number of related features, some of which I did the art on. One was “Toyota Story” that Des wrote, from MAD #504. It makes fun of Toyota’s “Accelerategate” scandal from 2009. Here are the story pages: Another Pixar piece I did was a take on their “Cars” films entitled “Rejected Cars Characters” from MAD #467, written by Jacob… READ MORE
October 26th, 2020 | Posted in Monday MADness
Okay these are not really from MAD. They are a bunch of MAD sketch covers I did for my “Virtual Artist’s Alley” table I have been doing in lieu of actual comic-cons, which of course are not happening right now. If you like these my next virtual artists alley event will likely be in March. BTW these are all done using brush pens and Copic markers. READ MORE
October 19th, 2020 | Posted in Monday MADness
This was one of my favorite movie parodies from the short lived “Burbank MAD” era, written by my CLAPTRAP collaborator Desmond Devlin! READ MORE
October 12th, 2020 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Exactly 20 years ago this week, MAD #399 hit newsstands (for you kids out there a “newsstand” was a place where people bought magazines, newspapers, and chewing gum). Pages 30 and 31 of that issue featured my first printed piece in MAD, pictured above. It was written by MAD‘s MADDEST WRITER Dick DeBartolo. We threw a MAD party at our house. I was 34 years old and my youngest kid was 4. Today he is 24, a college graduate, homeowner, and currently on his honeymoon. Time flies. I still have both the rough pencil sketch and the original inks from this job: READ MORE
October 5th, 2020 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Well, not “on the stands” since MAD is no longer on newsstands anywhere. It’s not in comic book shops either because that won’t happen until Wednesday, assuming you can find a copy in a comic book shop at all. It is, however, in most subscriber’s mailboxes already. I’m no longer going to list the contents of the issues, since the vast majority of it is reprinted material. I’ll just list anything that’s new. So here you go: Cover (Bob Lizarraga) Spy vs. Spy (Peter Kuper) Dastardly Dr. Bunk’s MAD Monster Lab (Tom Bunk) Classic Movie Scenes We’d Like to See (Sergio Aragonés) Fold-In (Johnny Sampson)… READ MORE
September 28th, 2020 | Posted in Monday MADness
I taught my final workshop for the foreseeable future this past weekend in Chicago (more workshop news tomorrow). One of the artists participating was Scott Olney, who has been one of the people I most look forward to seeing when I do comic cons in the Chicago area. Fist, he’s a cool guy who is always fun to chat with. Second, he always has a challenge for me with a “Alfred as…” comic-con commission. He names some obscure Marvel character and has me draw Alfred E. Neuman as that character. There are always fun because it can he tough to figure out how to “Alfredize”… READ MORE
