On The Stands: MAD #1!!

April 16th, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine

In comic books shops now, in subscriber mailboxes and via digital format TBD, on news stands (all 16 of them left) everywhere tomorrow!

  • Cover– (Jason Edmiston)
  • ToC (Art by Harvey Kurtzman)
  • Star Bores: Half-Assed Jedi (Desmond Devlin, Tom Richmond)
  • A MAD Look at Harassment (Sergio Aragonés, Colors: Carrie Strachan)
  • Make America Greet Again (Teresa Burns Parkhurst)
  • Spy vs Spy (Peter Kuper)
  • The Wisenheim Museum (Ron English)
  • Potrzebie Comics
    • Cover (Kerry Callen)
    • It’s Bring Your Sidekick to Work Day! (Kerry Callen)
    • The 27 Club (Luke McGarry)
    • Boonies, Burbs and Burgs (Bob Fingerman)
  • MAD’s Movie Mogul Guide (Mary Trainor)
  • Pop Culture that Didn’t Make it into Ready Player One (Brian Posehn, Peter Bagge)
  • Starchie Reconstituted/Riverdull (Ian Boothby, Tom Richmond)
  • Movies We’d Like to See (on the Cutting Room Floor) (Mary Trainor)
  • Shorts & Briefs (Dan Telfer, Alejandro Rivas, Michael C. Falk, Paula Sevenbergen, Lars Kenseth, Peter Kuper, Kenny Keil, Megan Koester, Johnny Sampson, Jason Chatfield, Alison Stevenson, Bob Eckstein, Chris Fairbanks, Allie Goertz, Nicole George, Doug Thomson)
  • INCOMING! (Reader Letters answered by intern Alex Taffer)
  • The MADifesto (Casey Boyd)
  • Real, Dumb (Mike Holmes, story submitted by Dan Telfer)
  • Drawn Out Dramas (Sergio Aragonés)
  • The MAD Fold In– (Al Jaffee)
  • Back Cover- MAD’s Guide to Protecting Your Home (Dick DeBartolo, Timothy Shamey)

This is it, the first West Coast produced issue of MAD. Very comics heavy. Very different look visually. Still has many familiar things, though. LOTS of new names and art styles in here. A special welcome to my pals Jason Chatfield and Luke McGarry for becoming part of the Usual Gang of Idiots! Welcome, guys… I hope someone told you about the ritual of sending a $20 bill off to the guy who did the art in the first article of the first issue you appear in. They’ve been doing that since the Kurtzman days, so pay up.

I have two major pieces in this issue! First is the art on a six page parody of “The Last Jedi”, written by Desmond Devlin. I’ll post a little sneak peek of that tomorrow. If that wasn’t enough green-teat-milk nausea for you, I also did the art on a NINE page parody of “Riverdale” written by Ian Boothby that features a throwback intro. I’ll post a bit about that on Thursday. Your math is right, I drew 15 pages of this issue.

So what are you waiting for, clod? Go out and buy a furshlugginer copy, already!

 

Comments

  1. Arthur Armstrong says:
    April 16, 2018 at 11:39 am

    I may have been one of the worrisome ones when this west coast move occurred, but I have to admit that I’m very much looking forward to this issue and entering into this new era of MAD. Truth be told, however, is that I am most excited by the fact that you have two parodies in this issue, Tom. I’ve often wanted to know how you’d feel about being tasked with two such pieces of work in one issue, and I am now beyond ecstatic that it has come to pass and is obviously no big deal for you. If I’m not mistaken, the only other artist known for illustrating more than one full length satire in an issue is Mort Drucker. Pretty fine company there. I just hope that this becomes a more frequent occurrence for you because I feel that it really benefits the magazine.

  2. MAD stats? says:
    April 16, 2018 at 2:28 pm

    Has any artist drawn 15 pages in a single MAD issue since maybe Wood in the early magazine days, or the all-Elder fill-in issue at the end of the comic book run?

  3. Mike says:
    April 17, 2018 at 8:58 pm

    Small correction: Doug Thompson should be Doug Thomson. Also, any guess on the illustrator for the Tiki ad on page 12? Certainly invokes Jack Davis, but I doubt it!

    • Tom Richmond says:
      April 17, 2018 at 9:01 pm

      Thanks. I reluctantly have to take the fall for the art on the Tiki ad on page 12. That was done at San Diego Comic-Con for a totally different purpose, but it sort of facilitated the entire MAD Tiki promo. You’re welcome.

      • Mike says:
        April 17, 2018 at 9:08 pm

        Thanks, I think the ad is definitely eye-catching!

        • Mike says:
          April 17, 2018 at 9:23 pm

          Also wonder if the Alfred bombarded by letters on the first page of the letters page (p. 52) is by a specific artist or an in-house effort?

  4. Sean says:
    April 18, 2018 at 4:10 pm

    “A MAD Look at Harassment”? As in sexual harassment?

    I guess I can’t expect old Sergio to remember every article he’s ever done for MAD, but he already tackled this issue back in 1994 in #330. 🙂

  5. Carlos Costa says:
    April 25, 2018 at 2:41 pm

    Hi. Greetings from Portugal, from a 38 y old portuguese Mad fan (reading your magazine from when i as a teen). Just finished subscribing to “new” Mad on Magzter and it’s as fresh as ever. Long live Alfred E. Neuman spirit among you! Abraços!

    P.S. Please tell mr. Sergio Aragones if he can make some kind of “A Mad Look at the Portuguese or Portugal”, although i know it would be hard to find things to laugh about us – we’re quite an ‘invisible’ people. 🙂

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