On the Stands: MAD #473

Every month, I’ll be shamelessly plugging the new MAD issue as it comes out complete with a scan of the cover, a list of the contents and their contributors (courtesy of Mike Slaubaugh, thanks Mike!) and a few peeks at anything I may have in said issue.

Since I missed the first issue of 2007 (cover date, anyway), here’s what’s on the stands right now:

MAD #473 (Jan. 07)

Contents:

• Dick Cheney Cover (Mark Fredrickson)
• The Fundalini Pages (Charles Akins, John Caldwell, Paul Coker, Dick DeBartolo, Desmond Devlin, Nicholas Michael Ferry IV, Garth Gerhart, Teresa Burns Parkhurst, Kevin Pope, Adam Rust, PC Vey)
• The MAD 20: Dumbest People, Events, and Things of 2006

1. Iraq War (Jacob Lambert, Hermann Mejia, Irving Schild)
2. Bode Miller (Joe Raiola, Charlie Kadau, Scott Bircher, AP/Wide World Photos)
3. Dick Cheney (Teresa Burns Parkhurst, Mark Stutzman)
4. Richard Hatch (Irving Schild, AP/Wide World Photos)
5. Zinedine Zidane (Scott Maiko, Mick Coulas)
6. Ann Coulter (AP/Wide World Photos)
7. Mel Gibson (Adam Rust)
8. Tainted Spinach (Scott Maiko, Jack Syracuse)
9. YouTube (Jacob Lambert)
10. Floyd Landis (Jeff Kruse, Harrison Greenbaum, Scott Bricher, AP/Wide World Photos)
11. North Korea Bomb Test (Tom Richmond)
12. Muhammad Cartoon Controversy (Scott Maiko, AP/Wide World Photos)
13. Barry Bonds (Jacob Lambert, Mark Fredrickson)
14. Issac Hayes (Jacob Lambert, AP/Wide World Photos)
15. Kevin Federline (AP/Wide World Photos)
16. Mark Foley (Desmond Devlin, AP/Wide World Photos)
17. Paris Hilton (Arie Kaplan, J. Scott Campbell)
18. John Mark Karr (Irving Schild, AP/Wide World Photos)
19. Star Jones (Arie Kaplan, Sam Sisco)
20. George Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice (John Kovaleski, Mark Frerickson)

• A MAD Look at Trying to Pick-Up Women (Sergio Aragones)
• Monroe and the Army Part 2 (Anthony Barbieri, Tom Fowler)
• Spy vs Spy (Peter Kuper)
• MAD World of the Holidays (Stan Sinberg, Marc Hempel)
• Dear Roger (Christopher Baldwin)
• Drawn Out Dramas (Sergio Aragones)
• MAD Fold-In (Al Jaffee)

Here is my modest contribution to the MAD 20:

You can see more sneak peeks of the issue on MAD’s website. Now go out and buy the issue, clod!