MADness #80- True Detective!

Welcome to another miserable Monday, and our continuing slog through the slimy, putrid, vermin-invested swamp that is my work for MAD Magazine. This week we return to the world of TV satires with this look back at MAD‘s spoof of the first season of “True Detective”… you know, back when the show was good and didn’t have completely indecipherable storylines, huge plot holes, and Vince Vaughn? This parody was written by the great Arnie Kogen, and first appeared in MAD #528, August 2014.

This splash features a few cameos by MAD staffers. The photographer on the left is MAD associate art director Ryan Flanders, and the two hayseeds on the far right bottom are associate editor and editor Jacob Lambert and Dave Croatto, respectively. If there was a specific reason for drawing them into this splash page I have long forgotten it. Maybe they did something to piss me off.

I remember thinking how crazy it was that Matthew McConaughey looked like two completely different people in this show, with just a mustache and different hair. Otherwise there isn’t anything interesting I remember about this piece. It ended up being the second to last feature I did the art for that was written by Arnie Kogen.

That’s it for another Monday MADness! Toon in next week for more TV satire fun!