“Ready Player One” MAD Parody Original Art!

MAD #30 just dropped, and will be available in comic book shops and in subscriber mailboxes soon. It’s a “technology” themed issue, and among the reprinted content is one of my favorite spoofs I drew for the “new” MAD, a spoof of the movie “Ready Player One”… splash page pictured above. This was a seven pager written by Desmond Devlin and featuring seemingly endless cameos of every sci-fi, comic book, fantasy, video game and other pop culture character you could shake a stick at.

A collector named Mark Faerber bought all seven pages of the original art from this parody shortly after it came out. He’s downsizing and is looking to sell the complete set. All the text is pasted up on all the pages of this one. Anyone interested can contact him at Markfaerber7@gmail.com.