This week’s Monday MADness is a look at the splash page of MAD #515 (June, 2012)’s parody of the first “Hunger Games” movie, written by Desmond Devlin. Here’s the pencil roughs… I redid the caricature/pose of Stanley Tucci‘s “Caesar Flickerman” character as well as some other tweaks in the final: READ MORE
MAD often had a knack for predicting the future, mostly because in pointing out the absurdities, hypocrisies, and fallacies of their subject matter through satire, they were usually right on target. Baby Yoda, anyone? These panels are from MAD‘s spoof of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” from MAD #539, June 2016, written by the mysterious David Richards. Incidentally I posted this in honor of this past weekend’s release of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”, which I actually got to see and enjoyed quite a lot. Since it looks like MAD has abandoned their long running TV/movie parody features, it seems that “Star Wars: The… READ MORE
Yes, they are still publishing it. Arriving in subscribers mailboxes already, and in comic book shops everywhere Wednesday! Cover (Mark Summers) Star Wars Funnies (Kerry Callen) Christmas Greedings* (Al Jaffee, Bob Clarke) A MAD Look at New Year’s Resolutions (Sergio Aragonés, Colors: Carrie Strachan) Spy vs. Spy (Peter Kuper) Meanwhile (Ian Boothby, Pia Guerra) The MAD 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2019 Boeing’s Max Stupidity (Bob Merlotti, Ed Steckley) Amazon’s HQ (Sheryl Zohn, Gideon Kendall) Deporable Migrant Detention Camps (David DeGrand, Michael Gambriel) Admitting to Admission’s Fraud (Ellis Rosen, Raven Juergensen) Micheal McConnell’s Bill Killing (Desmond Devlin, Kerry Callen) Game of Thrones Coffee Cup (Amanda Stellberg, Laurie Greasley)… READ MORE
From “Xander and Kam’s Night of the Living Sequels”, MAD #10, Dec 2019. Written by Ian Boothby. READ MORE
I was surprised to see (mostly) my art on the cover of the the latest issue of Australian MAD. This is an altered version of this variant cover I did for Batman/Superman #10, April 2014: Someone added the Joaquin Phoenix “Joker” makeup to the original art for the new cover. No, I did not get paid for this. In fact I didn’t even know about it until someone posted the cover pic on a MAD group in Facebook. That’s the wonderful world of work for hire. READ MORE
Here’s the clever cover for MAD #11 (art by Mark Summers), which goes on sale Dec 18th… somewhere. Your local comic book shop or via your mailbox if you still want to get your MAD on dead trees. Yes this issue is mostly new content. The entire MAD 20 is new. Sergio’s “A MAD Look at…” and Spy vs. Spy is new. I did two of the MAD 20 features. I’ll post the list of contents after the release date. READ MORE
This week’s Monday MADness is a look at the pencil sketches of the first “Xander and Kam’s Sneaky Previews” written by Ian Boothby and appearing in MAD #2 (the 2018 one, not the 1952 one). Clicky any to embiggen… READ MORE
Looks like “Terminator: Dark Fate: is already terminated at the box office, having opened at only $29 million in North America when $40 million was projected (apparently less people than expected wanted to see a 72 year old Arnold Schwarzenegger and a 63 year old Linda Hamilton playing action heroes onscreen). So, here’s a look at the art for MAD‘s spoof of “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines” i.e. “Interminable 3: Rise of the Bad Scenes”, from MAD #432, August 2003 written by Dick DeBartolo. Arnuld was a relatively youthful 56 at the time. Of course we still made fun of how old he was… READ MORE
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