Monday MADness: Charlottesville MAD Piece!

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 by someone assuming I was a white supremacist or having some racist alt-righter wanting to high five me.

I say it was “controversial” because I got a lot of comments and emails from alt-right types thinking this was really cool and that it was supporting their message. Hard to believe anyone could get that from this, but…

This is obviously a spoof of the “Wet Hot American Summer” movie poster: