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Tuesday MADness: One Evening at the White House!
October 30th, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Monday MADness becomes Tuesday MADness this week as I needed yesterday to conquer the last deadline that kept the blog so quiet last week. Done. Recovering.
I did the art on this one page gag piece for MAD back in 2014 for their website, turnaround time 14 hours. That was rare thing back then, but a precursor to the new MAD website where they do quick turnaround gag cartoons all the time. MAD ended up printing this in issue #531. Here’s a look at the pencil (ok, DIGITAL) sketch:
As you can see they made me change Obama’s face from the last panel. If I remember right they wanted him to look more sad and forlorn. Personally I liked the more subtle expression in the pencil, but what do I know?
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You were right! The sketch Obama reads much better than the changed final version. Still, cool to see these “lost” pieces. Thanks!
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