Monday MADness
April 14th, 2014 | Posted in Monday MADness
Here’s a roundup of the various sneak peeks that have (so far) popped up on the Interwebs from the upcoming MAD #527 (besides the one of “The Slobbit” I posted about last week): MAD rules Bill Maher– Written by Butch D’Ambrosio with art by Paul Coker, courtesy of Politico Desmond Devlin and Anton Emdin take a look back at Pro Wrestling, courtesy of Craveonline. El Maestro Sergio Aragon?¬©s (with colorist Tom Luth) takes a MAD look at legalizing marijuana, courtesy of (go figure) High Times. READ MORE
April 7th, 2014 | Posted in Monday MADness
This week’s Monday MADness is a peek behind the scenes of a feature from MAD #467, July 2006 entitled “Rejected Characters from CARS” written by Jacob Lambert (Clicky any to embiggen…): Pencil roughs…Some of the characters included were: “Guzzle” the 3 miles-per-gallon Winnebago, “Denny Dent” the garage-hidden hit-and-run suspect, “Cheesy” the ridiculously pimped-out Kia, “Don Pablo” the illegal alien-stuffed Econo van, and “Flippy” the rollover-prone SUV… Finished Art READ MORE
March 24th, 2014 | Posted in Monday MADness
This week’s Monday MADness is a look at one of the craziest crowd scenes I’ve ever done for MAD– “MAD Exposes Who’s Thinking What at the Obama Inauguration” from issue #498, February 2009. This is the pencil rough I did to send to the MAD editors for review before I redrew the whole thing much larger, inked and colored it for the final. You’ll probably recognize a number of politicians, pundits, talking heads and other celebrities even in the rough, as I did take a stab at most of their caricatures even at this initial stage. The original final art for this splash is a… READ MORE
March 17th, 2014 | Posted in Monday MADness
Okay not really a MAD piece…but related. I’ve done a few pieces for the Warner Bros consumer products line, and the above I did a year or two ago as a t-shirt illustration. I am sure I’ve shown this piece here before… but not these preliminary roughs!: READ MORE
March 10th, 2014 | Posted in Monday MADness
Today’s Monday MADness is a look at the pencil roughs for a features entitled “America’s Next Top Mobster”, which was a mash-up of “The Sopranos” and “American;s Next Top Model” written by Desmond Devlin and appearing in MAD #482, October 2007. Clicky any to embiggen… As you can see my pencils got a lot looser on the last page, where I literally have circles for heads sometimes and only impart the very basic information for the MAD staff to review. Likely I was running short on time and I wanted to get these to the editors so I could move on to the finals, but… READ MORE
March 3rd, 2014 | Posted in Monday MADness
This weeks Monday MADness is a look at the pencil roughs from a piece called “You Can Write the Next American Idol Single!” written by Desmond Devlin, which appeared in MAD #466, June 2006. Clicky any to embiggen: And here’s how the final art looked: READ MORE
February 17th, 2014 | Posted in Monday MADness
In honor of spring training opening this week, today’s Monday MADness comes from MAD #434, October 2003…a feature written by Barry Liebmann that asks the question: what would the world be like “Without Sports…”. Click the image below for an embiggened look at my art and follow along with the key for a sampling of Barry’s many gags from the original article: Without Sports… … many of the athletes who receive millions to endorse sneakers would only be qualified to work in the same 3-cent-an-hour sweatshops that manufacture them. … the only people left to grab their own crotch in public would be three-year-olds, incontinent… READ MORE
February 10th, 2014 | Posted in Monday MADness
An exclusive first look at the cover of MAD #526, courtesy of Entertainment Weekly! The cover artist is Mark Fredrickson. In this issue I did the art for the “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” spoof as MAD let slip last week. I will post a sneak peek of that when the issue is released. READ MORE
