Monday MADness
August 5th, 2019 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Arriving in subscribers mailboxes now, on news stands (one last time) tomorrow and in comic book shops everywhere Wednesday! Cover (Tom Richmond) MAD Straight Jacket Ad (reprinted from various, first appeared in MAD #46) Letters Page (Ed.) Lousy Law (Andrew Secunda, Tom Richmond) Spy vs. Spy (Peter Kuper) The Lighter Side of (Tammy Golden, Jon Adams) Cartoon Scenes We’d Like to See (Sergio Aragonés, Colors: Carrie Strachan) Shorts & Briefs Panel Cartoon (Anya Davidson) Woodstock Puzzle (Charlie Kadau) Panel Cartoon (P.C. Vey) Panel Cartoon (Charlie Hankin) Panel Cartoon (Jon Adams) Panel Cartoon (Lars Kenseth) Signs She’s Not Into You (Arie Kaplan, A Person, Colors: Nathan… READ MORE
July 29th, 2019 | Posted in MAD Magazine
This is going to be a long post because this story took place over the course of 18 months, had not a few twists and turns including my doing the final art TWICE, and ended up being something very different than what it started out to be. Plus I’ve been keeping this a secret for all this time, so I want to tell the story right. Bear with me… In March of 2018 I received an email from Chris Call of Call Props, who was serving as “Property Master” for Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming film “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”. Chris had found me via… READ MORE
July 15th, 2019 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Apologies for the lack of posts around here recently. I’ve been either on the road or on deadline. In fact I’m on the latter today and the former again tomorrow! In the meantime today’s Monday MADness features a look at my final art for MAD‘s parody of “School of Rock” written by Dick DeBartolo from MAD #438, Feb. 2004. READ MORE
July 8th, 2019 | Posted in MAD Magazine
What constitutes my very first MAD job depends on your definition of “first”. Would that be the first thing I was ever assigned to do and then paid for doing it by the magazine? The first thing I ever did that appeared under the MAD brand in any form (i.e. on their website?) or the first thing I did that actually saw print in an issue? Technically the very first job I ever got from MAD was assigned to me 19 years ago last month (June 2000). It was a feature called “MAD‘s Cable TV Viewing Odds”, written by John Biederman. This job was what… READ MORE
July 1st, 2019 | Posted in Monday MADness
Since my Sunday Mailbag yesterday dealt with doing political pieces, here a look at what was probably the most controversial politically-themed job I’ve done for MAD (and there have been a lot of them). I was working on the coloring of this job while on a plane from overseas back to the states, and The Lovely Anna leaned over to tell me I might want to turn off the layer with the sign lettering on it, just in case someone looked over and saw “JEWS WILL NOT REPLACE US” fulling my Wacom MobleStudio Pro screen. I’m not sure what would have been worse… getting confronted… READ MORE
June 28th, 2019 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Well not really lost but not published in MAD either. While MAD did parodies of all three of “The Hobbit” films only two ended up in the magazine. The third was done as an original piece for a special “Loot Crate” edition of MAD. Written by Desmond Devlin, only Loot Crate subscribers (and collectors on eBay) got a copy of this 6 page spoof. It happened to feature one of the craziest two page spreads I ever did for MAD… the battle scene with the Five Armies: Here are the pencil sketches for this project: READ MORE
June 27th, 2019 | Posted in MAD Magazine
This is one of my favorite splash pages from a film parody in MAD, “The Dork Knight Reprises” written by Arnie Kogen from MAD #519, Feb 2013. I had fun with everything here… the composition, and caricatures, the sight gags… plus it’s Batman. READ MORE
June 24th, 2019 | Posted in Monday MADness
Here’s a look at the splash page process for MAD‘s parody of the film “Sully”, written by Dick DeBartolo and appearing in MAD #543, Feb 2017. Pencils, inks and color: READ MORE
