Monday MADness: My First MAD Movie Parody!
With Desmond Devlin and I doing our CLAPTRAP book project to keep the movie parody comics genre alive, I thought we’d take a look at my very first movie parody in MAD. This spoof of the four time Academy Award winning film “Traffic” was written by Arnie Kogen, and appeared in MAD #405, May 2001. Clicky any image to embiggen…
I did three movie spoofs (and one TV spoof) for Cracked magazine before starting with MAD, so this one was not my first actual movie parody printed in a humor magazine, but it was the first one in MAD. If you’ve ever seen “Traffic”, you’ll understand the color palette I used here. In the film, all the scenes taking place in Mexico had a washed out, yellow cast, and the ones taking place in DC had a blue tint to them. The San Diego scenes were normal color.
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Tom, you are obviously a movie buff!! You have a good eye for seeing what kind of film technique people use in films. This would be a great idea for a parody in the book. A one or two page look at various film styles or techniques would be fun to see you and Desmond do a a spoof on. Thanks for a nice update on this page. From one film buff to amother, I really appreciate your work as an artist who pays a good homage to film. By the way, the splash page for TYPE-O is perhaps one of the best splash pages I’ve seen you do! Keep it up.