MAD #523 Sneak Peek- Ho-Hum Land

As promised, here are a couple of panels from “Ho-Hum Land” appearing in the latest issue of MAD. written by David Shayne.

And in case you missed it, here’s the splash:

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As I mentioned briefly before, this particular piece has a special significance for me, since it represents the 100th issue of MAD my work has appeared in. My first appearance was in issue #399 back in October of 2000, and since then I’ve had work in all but 25 of the subsequent 124 issues. That magic #100 should be updated sometime soon on Mike Slaubaugh’s MAD lists page. According to Mike’s list, I am #36 in the most frequent contributors list.

I have a hard time remembering what year and what issue I did what for the magazine, so I created a spreadsheet to keep track some time ago. It gives me some interesting stats:

As of MAD #523:

• No. of issues appeared in: 100
• No. of issues with more than one piece in it: 7
• No. of movies parodies: 25
• No. of TV parodies: 30
• Total number of pages published: 433
• Writer most collaborated with: Desmond Devlin- 28 articles illustrated

Just some useless stats, but fun to keep track of.

Incidentally, by this time next week I should have turned in my latest MAD job, which will raise the movie parody, Des Devlin collaboration and total issues appeared in by one, and total pages up to 440!