On the Stands: MAD #550

In subscriber mailboxes, digital format and in comic books shops now, on news stands everywhere Tuesday!

• Cover– Mark Fredrickson
• The Fundalini Pages (Kenny Keil, Ed Steckley, Jon Adams, Michael Gallagher, Ray Alma, Dakota McFadzean, Mike Morse, Rich Powell, Teresa Burns Parkhurst, Nathan Cooper, Chris Carson, Jonathan Edwards, Matt Lassen, John Kirschbaum, Evan Waite, Jason Yungbluth, Jeff Kruse, Seppo Virtanen, Timothy Shamey, Sam Sisco, Jose Garibaldi, Drew Panckeri)
• First Aid for the Choking Victim in the Digital Age (Dick DeBartolo, Jacob Chabot)
• This is Pus (Desmond Devlin, Tom Richmond)
• Boomers vs Millennials (Kenny Keil, Rick Tulka (colorist Jim Campbelll) & Justin Peterson)
• Donald Trump’s Letter to the Incoming President (Stan Sinberg, Bob Staake)
• Spy vs Spy (Peter Kuper)
• Workers We’d Like to go a Day Without (Alison Grambs, Kevin Pope)
• The MAD Sports Pages (Joe Raiola & Charlie Kadau, Anton Emdin)
• Things You Don’t Want to Hear Coming from the Next Bathroom Stall (Dave Croatto & Jacob Lambert, Josh Mecouch)
• The Life and Times of Jerry the Pound Sign (Teresa Burns Parkhurst)
• Gotcha (Scott Maiko, various)
• The Strip Club (Nathan Cooper, Kenny Keil, John McNamee
• The Future of Job Automation (Kenny Keil, John Martz)
• Selected Observations from Random Autopsies (Jeff Kruse, Tom Bunk)
• A MAD Look at Justice League (Sergio Aragones, Colors: Jim Campbelll)
• Dewey Derwin Destroys the World! (Kenny Keil, Justin Peterson)
• Olive Garbage (Scott Maiko, Scott Bricher)
• What’s on Sean Hannity’s Desk (Mike Morse, Ward Sutton)
• Brutally Honest Park Bench Plaques (Alison Grambs, Alejandro Rivas)
• Drawn Out Dramas (Sergio Aragones)
• The MAD Fold In– Al Jaffee
• Back Cover (Mark Fredrickson)

This is it, the last New York produced issue of MAD. It was nice to see some names in the magazine that we don’t see that that often anymore, at least not for full articles, like Ray Alma, Rick Tulka, and Kevin Pope. Editors Joe Raiola, Charlie Kadau, Dave Croatto and Jacob Lambert also have writing credits in this issue. I have a feeling a lot of people wanted to have something in this one. It really is the end of an era.

My main piece in this issue is the art on a 6 page parody of “This is Us”, written by Desmond Devlin. I’ll post a sneak peek of that Monday. I also contributed caricatures of myself and Des for the mug shots in the “Gotcha” feature written by Scott Maiko.

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