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On the Stands: MAD #478
May 10th, 2007 | Posted in MAD Magazine
In comic book shops today and on newsstands on Tuesday, May 15th:
MAD # 478 (June 2007)
- Cover (Mark Frederickson)
- The Fundalini Pages (Charles Akins, John Caldwell, Paul Coker, Dick DeBartolo, Desmond Devlin, Darren Johnson, Jeff Kruse, Jacob Lambert, Glen LeLievre, Kevin Pope, Irving Schild, Jack Syracuse, Jason Yungbluth)
- Lewd and Disorder: It’s P.U. (Arnie Kogen, Mort Drucker)
- Rejected Army Recruitment Posters (Jacob Lambert, Irving Schild)
- 10 Ways to Liven Up the National Spelling Bee (Jeff Kruse, Paul Coker)
- MAD’s Vemonous Outtakes from “Spider-Man 3” (Uncredited)
- Monroe and… Cruelty Free (Anthony Barbieri, Tom Fowler)
- The Average 5th Grader Knows… (J. Prete, Peter Bagge)
- A MAD Look at Artists (Sergio Aragones)
- 1 vs. 300 from NBC (Hermann Mejia)
- Planet Tad (Tim Carvell, Brian Durniak)
- Spy vs. Spy (Peter Kuper)
- Photos Peter Parker Couldn’t Sell to the Daily Bugle (Jacob Lambert, Drew Friedman)
- What You Have to Look Forward to as a Middle Aged Mall Rat (John Caldwell)
- Dud the Lousy Hunter (Dennis Snee, Tom Richmond)
- MAD Fold-In (Al Jaffee)
- Drawn Out Dramas (Sergio Aragones)
- Next Month in MAD #479: Harry Potter, Pixar and Fantastic Four!
I did the art for a five page parody of A&E’s “DOG the Bounty Hunter” for this issue. I’ll post a sneak peek tomorrow with some sketches, etc.
What are you waiting for? Go buy a copy, Clod!
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Tom,
That MAD cover is great. Do you know what medium it is created in? Airbrush or digital photophop or maybe both?
Cover artist Mark Fredrickson, who does 90% of all the MAD covers these days, used to be THE name in airbrush illustration. Then one day he decided digital is the way to go, and spent a month looking over the shoulder of a colleague who did digital painting. Now Mark is 100% digital. I think he uses PhotoShop but I don’t know for certain. I believe he uses some Photo-Shop manipulated photos combined with digital painting to create his images.
I remember when you were doing the MAD Kids Spidey cover, and you mentioned your work being too ‘cartoony’ for a regular MAD cover. Not true, especially when you do the ‘painterly’ look without holding lines.
It’s interesting to see how much the cover style has changed since I started reading MAD as a kid. Imagine if Richard Williams and Norman Mingo had Photoshop at their disposal!
As great as Mort Drucker is, his splash page in this issue seems..’unfinished’. More specifically, some of the caricatures’ bodies are not fully drawn. Still great work though.
Mort has always done a kind of collage/montage sort of thing with his splash pages, where elements are clearly not meant to be taken as literally within a set space or environment. Hence the fading out or shorthand figures and the differences in character sizes. You may notice Mort has eschewed traditional ink line for a softer approach with more pencil and sketchier drawing style… I think that is a result of the modern scanners ability to pick up lines that the old half tone photostats just couldn’t reproduce.