Yet another DC MAD variant cover, this one by the long-time MAD artist and current art director Sam Viviano! This one comes courtesy of Gamma Squad.

Buzzfeed.com has an exclusive sneak peek of my variant cover for Detective Comics #19. This was a lot of fun and given my being a huge Batman fan getting to do the cover of Detective Comics was extra special. I am too busy today to write more about this, but Thursday I will post some pencil sketches and a closer look at the artwork.

This might be my favorite gag of these variant covers so far… Ward Sutton does the cover of Teen Titans #19, injecting a little dose of reality to the scene. Exclusive sneak peek brought to you by Newsarama.com.

Yet another of the 13 MAD variant covers for DC titles gets a sneak peek today courtesy of Wired.com’s Geekdad. It’s Supergirl #19 by is by painter extraordinaire Richard Williams, who has done a number of MAD covers as well as many features including some of the great MAD 20 pieces.

Yet another exclusive sneak peek of one of the MAD variant covers for thirteen of DC Comics’ titles, to be released in April. This mind-blowing cover for Aquaman #19 is by Tom Bunk, and comes your way thanks to IGN.com!

Another exclusive peek at on of the 13 upcoming variant DC Comics covers by the Usual Gang of Idiots. This one is by MAD cover artist Mark Fredrickson, courtesy of Maxim.com!

Here’s another one! TheMarySue.com has an exclusive first look at Peter Kuper‘s Spy vs. Spy cover for Wonder Woman.

Newnownext.com has the exclusive first look at yet another of the MAD variant covers for several DC titles coming to a comic book shop near you in April. This one is by longtime MAD artist Rick Tulka!

The folks over at The Huffington Post have an exclusive sneak peek at another of DC’s MAD variant covers, this time the great Al Jaffee does a Fold-In cover for BATMAN. The folks at the HuffPo also have a hard time spelling “magazine”… must be longtime MAD readers.

Please be careful folding this cover, your computer screen is not very flexible.

Q: How do I submit work to MAD?

A: I get this one a lot. The answer is it depends. If you are going to submit really excellent work in an effort to steal my job, please submit it to:

MAD Magazine
C/O:  Dr. Op Dedd
43 Skidoo Ave. Suite 0
Nowheresville, NY 0U812

However if you are looking to submit less dangerous work, either writing or art, you are in luck! MAD just put up a web page where you can upload samples for them to peruse at their leisure! Here’s some of what they say on that page about what they are looking for:

FROM THE MAD SUBMISSIONS PAGE:

We’re interested in material focusing on evergreen topics, such as dating, family, school and work, plus topical material about celebrities, sports, politics, news and social trends. In addition, we will consider submissions for our Fundalini Pages and annual MAD 20 (The Dumbest People, Events and Things of the Year). We also welcome submissions for our Strip Club (artist-writers or artist-writer teams preferred).

Do not include more than three article ideas in a single submission. And please note: We will not consider movie or television satires, rewrites of established MAD premises, your take on existing features, cover ideas, or gags with Alfred E. Neuman.

That means they don’t want to see you write a “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions”, a “Horrifying Clichés”, or some other MAD staple. As I have written here before, your best bet to “break into” MAD, outside of using a crowbar and glass cutter, is to come up with something for the Strip Club, or a one to two page feature that is not time-specific (not dependent on some “hot” topic that will be irrelevant is a month).

Here is a link to that submissions page again. Good luck, and stay away from my assignments! :p

Thanks to R.D. Griffin for the question. If you have a question you want answered for the mailbag about cartooning, illustration, MAD Magazine, caricature or similar, e-mail me and I’ll try and answer it here!