Monday MADness- 30 Rock!

This week’s Monday MADness is a look at MAD‘s parody of “30 Rock”, written by Arnie Kogen with art by me. From MAD #490, June 2008 (clicky any to embiggen):

Pencil roughs

Final splash page

So, what’s with the odd looking monkey I added in the lower center of the splash on the final? Well, the issue before was the “All Monkey Issue”, and I did the art on a piece showing the MAD staff as monkeys:

After the issue came out, the folks at MAD decided they should have added former art director Nadina Simon in that group. So they asked me to draw her in the 30 Crock splash. As a monkey. Yep.

Here are some more pages from that parody:

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