On the Stands: MAD #3!

August 6th, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine

In subscribers mailboxes for a week or so already, on newsstands everywhere tomorrow and in comic book shops and digital this week!

  • Cover– (Mark Fredrickson)
  • ToC (Art by George Woodbridge)
  • Messy Layered One (Desmond Devlin, Tom Richmond)
  • MAD’s Sneaky Tech Tips (Dick DeBartolo, Luke McGarry)
  • Fairy Tale Scenes We’d Like to See (Sergio Aragonés, Colors: Tom Luth)
  • Spy vs. Spy (Peter Kuper)
  • Postcard from a State of Depression (Mary Trainor)
  • Roach Guy (Joe Kwaczala, Phil “Burrito Breath” Guy)
  • Potrzebie Comics
    • Cover (Kerry Callen)
    • Infant Terrible (Paula Sevenbergen & Allie Goertz, Paulina Ganucheau)
    • The Origin of Spidery-Man (Kerry Callen)
    • Boonies, Burbs and Burgs (Bob Fingerman)
  • Let’s Have Fun with the Stomach Bug (Teresa Burns Parkhurst)
  • The Lighter Side of Self-Involvement (Tammy Golden, Jon Adams)
  • Social Anxiety BINGO (Alison Stevenson)
  • The Wisenheim Museum (Mitch O’Connell)
  • Comedians in Cars Getting Arrested (Reid Harrison & Gene Laufenberg, Anton Emdin)
  • A MAD Look at Picnics (Sergio Aragonés, Colors: Tom Luth)
  • An Ad We’ll Soon See? (Uncredited)
  • MAD Remembers Nick Meglin (The Usual Gand of Idiots)
  • Shorts & Briefs (Kit Lively, Josh Mecouch, Desmond Devlin, Ed Steckley, Johnny Sampson, Peter Kuper, Kyle Bridgett, Jason Chatfield, Scott Nickel, Brian Warner, Lars Kenseth, Evan White, Ray Alma)
  • INCOMING! (Reader Letters answered by intern Alex Taffer)
  • The MADifesto (Joe Butler)
  • Real, Dumb (Mike Holmes, story submitted by Bob Felton)
  • The MAD Fold In (Al Jaffee)
  • Drawn Out Dramas (Sergio Aragonés)

My contribution to this issue is the art for a seven page parody of the movie “Ready Player One” written by Desmond Devlin. I’ll post some sneak peeks of that tomorrow.

This issue also marks the return of “The Lighter Side of…”, but sans that feature’s longtime writer/artist Dave Berg who has been terrible at meeting deadlines since he died in 2002. I’d also like to call your attention to the two page spread with thoughts and remembrances of the late, great Nick Meglin, illustrated with an incredible caricature by Sam Viviano… a loving send off to someone who was truly the soul of MAD.

Comments

  1. Arthur A says:
    August 6, 2018 at 7:18 pm

    I always look forward to your “On the Stands” announcements as it allows me details as to what is inside an upcoming issue (and because my comic book store gets new MAD issues very late for some reason, this information tides me over until then). However, I am also a big fan of your “On the Drawing Board” feature which gives us the earliest information, no matter how slight, of your contributions to an upcoming MAD. And this got me to thinking that since the “Drawing Board” feature isn’t a truly consistent item on your blog, that maybe you could blend it in with your “On the Stands” announcement. For example, after the content list and your explanation about what you did in the issue, you could add a teaser line simply stating: “UPCOMING IN ISSUE #???: A seven page movie parody.”

    This is just a simple idea from a pretty impatient guy.

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