On the Stands: MAD #498

In comic book stores this week and on news stands on Jan. 20th:

MAD # 498 (February 2009)

• Cover (Mark Frederickson)
• The Fundalini Pages (Ray Alma, John Cadwell, Dave Crosland, Dick DeBartolo, Desmond Devlin, Gary Hallgren, Tim Hamilton, Darren Johnson, Jeff Kruse, Glen LeLievre, Barry Liebmann, Kevin Pope, Leonardo Rodriguez, Rick Tulka)
• Lame Attempts by TV to Explain the 2008 Presidential Vote (Barry Liebmann, Ward Sutton)
  
• A MAD Look at Snow (Sergio Aragon?¬©s)
• MAD’s 12 Surefire Tips for Stand-Up Comics (Jeff Kruse, Rick Tulka, Colorist: Ryan Flanders)
• MAD’s Sucky Twilight Outtakes (Uncredited)
• The 2009 Al Jaffee Calendar! (Al Jaffee)
• MAD Exposes Who’s Thinking What at the Obma Inauguration (Desmond Delvin, Jeff Fruse, Jacob Lambert, Frank Santopadre and Dennis Snee, Tom Richmond)
• Spy vs Spy (Peter Kuper)
• When Adults Say… Remind Them… (Jacob Lambert, Peter Bagge)
• The MAD World of… Pets (Stan Sinberg, Marc Hempel)
• Monroe and… The Plane Trip (Anthony Barbieri, Tom Fowler, Colorist: Carl Peterson)
• What the Heck is the Difference (Mark Fredrickson)
• MAD’s All-Inclusive Do-It-Yourself Celebrity Scandal Blog Posting (Jacob Lambert and Bill Fibbers, Mort Drucker)
• Tell-Tale Signs That You’ve Got a Really Bad Psychic (Teresa Burns Parkhurst)
• The First 100 Minutes of the Obama Presidency (Bill Fibbers and Frank Santopadre, Drew Friedman)
• MAD Fold-In (Al Jaffee)
• Drawn Out Dramas (Sergio Aragon?¬©s)
• Next Month In Mad #499: Dead Celebrity Apprentice!

Some may remember me grousing about a killer crowd scene job I did back in early December… well, this is it. Three pages of the crowd at Obama’s inauguration that features 51 caricatures (53 if you count two friends I snuck in). I’ll post a sneak peek tomorrow. Also look on Thursday for a tutorial I have prepared on drawing crowd scenes using this one as an example.