Monday MADness
November 14th, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Break out the bourbon and light up your smokes, it’s time for another look back at the work I did for MAD magazine! This week we revisit one of my all time favorite parodies I ever did for the magazine, a spoof of the TV series “Mad Men”, written by Arnie Kogen and first appearing in MAD #508, April 2011. Why is this one of my favorites? First off, I loved the show so it was not a chore watching episodes and getting to know the characters, which helps a lot of both the caricatures and coming up with insider gags. Second, the show was… READ MORE
October 24th, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
THE HALLS ARE ALIVE, WITH THE SOUND OF MUSIC (…AND THE SMELL OF ARMPITS)!! Get ready to duck those flying slushies, Gleeks! We’re back at it this week with another tone deaf performance of a moldy oldie of a look back at my work for MAD Magazine. Today we revisit MAD‘s parody of the TV show “Glee”, written by the great Arnie Kogen and first appearing in MAD #506, December 2010. This show was a favorite of my wife, The Lovely Anna, and my kids. In fact this parody is rife with cameos of people I know, including my kids in the splash page. On… READ MORE
October 18th, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
We’re going to take a break from the seemingly endless monotony of the weekly look back at my work from MAD and share something I wrote for my newsletter “The Ink Stained Wretch” (which you should be subscribed to!). Last week we took a peek behind the curtain of how MAD movie parodies were done “back in the day” as far as obtaining references from the films before we all had instant access to thousands of images with a few keystrokes. I’ll be the first to admit that my job doing movie and TV parodies is a lot easier today than when Mort Drucker, Jack Davis,… READ MORE
October 10th, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
There’s no place like Monday! There’s no place like Monday! It’s time for another trip over the rainbow with another look back at my work for MAD. Today we drop in on one of the most unique pieces I ever did for the magazine. Is it a movie parody? Yes.. sort of. Is it a political piece? Yes, definitely. Does it contain a ridiculous number of caricatures of political reporters, commentators and satirists? That would be a big “you betcha”. We are not in Kansas anymore! Desmond Devlin wrote this six pager called “The Wizard of O” for MAD #505, Oct 2010. This was a… READ MORE
October 3rd, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
It’s Monday! That means it’s time to race headlong into another look back at the car wreck that was my work for MAD Magazine. This week’s MADness is a look back at a three pager my CLAPTRAP cohort Desmond Devlin and I did for MAD #504, August 2010. Back then Toyota was in some hot water for an “unexplained acceleration” issue with their card that resulted in a lawsuit and investigation. This was a play on that with the Toy Story gang. Originally I just did a movie poster spoof that was a little different than the above for the MAD website, but then they expanded it into a short story for… READ MORE
September 26th, 2022 | Posted in Mailbag
Don’t go getting your quarks all in a bunch… I know it’s Monday and that means it’s time to get our hadrons on and examine more of the decaying matter that was my work for MAD Magazine. This week we pick up where we left off last Monday, and look at the other piece I had in MAD #503, May 2010. That was a very short parody of the TV sitcom “The Big Bang Theory”, written by my CLAPTRAP cohort Desmond Devlin. The part about this job I remember most was trying to figure out the best way to handle the “chalkboard” caricatures that were… READ MORE
September 19th, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
I’m not making this up… it really is Monday! Time for another high-flying episode of the seemingly endless flight that is our trek through my work at MAD Magazine. This week we reach new heights of mendacity both in the subjects of the work I did and my being credited for new work in issue #503 at all! I had two pieces in MAD #503, May 2010, although neither were technically new. One was part of a one pager that included three spoof DVD covers originally done for MAD‘s website. Yes, MAD used to do original content for their website. In fact, MAD pioneered that… READ MORE
September 12th, 2022 | Posted in MAD Magazine
It’s time to roll the dice and move the around the board with this week’s look back at my work for MAD Magazine. Here’s a second piece I did for MAD #502, Jan 2010, written by Jacob Lambert. This two pager was a response to the rash of movies based on board games. This was the first time I used my “colored line” technique on a MAD job. I had just figured out how to do it and had done a couple of freelance illustration jobs using it, but I had never had the occasion to use it for MAD. The technique starts with the… READ MORE
