MADness #48- School Sucks!

Attention, class! Stop with the spitballs and paper airplanes, ya momsers! It’s Monday and time for another history lesson on the worst of MAD Magazine with a look at “35 Scholarly Reasons Why School Sucks!”, written by Jacob Lambert and drawn by me and the terrific Peter Bagge!

I thought it was a cool concept with this feature to split the art duties between myself and Peter. He had just started having art in MAD about a year earlier, but was already very well known for his comic book Hate and other work. I did not see any of Peter’s art on this until I got an actual copy of the printed magazine. It was really fun to have imagined how Peter would handle the gags for his spots and then see what he actually came up with. Many times it was very different from what I would have done, and that really made the feature interesting.

I couldn’t resist drawing Sergio as the Spanish teacher in #10. He’s the only actual caricature I did in their entire feature. The rest of the people I drew were just cartoon people.

I didn’t do the blue notebook paper lines in my illustrations, I just sent the MAD guys the spots and they did the rest. I thought it was appropriate that my drawings had the blue lines through them, since 99% of all the drawings I did prior to graduating high school were done on notebook paper, and I hadn’t gotten much better since. 😛

Mine and Peter’s styles are very different, and I thought the juxtaposition of the two very different visual looks created an appealing feel to the feature. If only one of us had done every single spot, it would have gotten tedious and not moved along as nicely.

Were you paying attention…NO?.. then SEE ME AFTER CLASS! You’ll get another chance next week when our trail through my work at MAD Magazine continues with another movie parody… a rare one without capes, wands, aliens or Hemsworth brother… but lots of sheep!