A Listless Story Sneak Peek!

December 13th, 2018 | Posted in General

As promised, here’s a look at the splash page of the parody of “A Christmas Story” in MAD #5, written by the Grinchy Desmond Devlin.

You just might be seeing more parodies of classic or cult movies now and again in the pages of MAD. One of the challenges with doing films these days is that by the time we’ve seen it, the writer writes the scripts, the editors edit it, the art department lays it out, the artist draws it, the art department does the production, the issue is printed and distributed the movie is yesterday’s news. Sure, we will keep doing new movies, but to have a couple of classic/cult films spoofed each year allows us to work those in around the edges and give the MAD treatment to some movies we missed the first time around.

Anyway this was a fun one to do. Now go buy a copy, putz!

 

Comments

  1. Jimmy Pereira says:
    December 14, 2018 at 7:46 am

    I can’t believe MAD didn’t do a parody of this movie around the time it came out.🤔
    A well known Christmas classic to be sure, your work is spot on! Can’t wait to read and enjoy it in its entirety when it comes out!👍🏻

  2. Mr. Boxofficemojo Risin' says:
    December 16, 2018 at 10:43 pm

    “A Christmas Story” was just the 39th highest-grossing film of 1983. Just ahead and behind it were the remake of “Breathless,” “Max Dugan Returns,” “The Dead Zone” and “Valley Girl.”

    While skipping “A Christmas Story,” MAD did eleven parodies of movies released in 1983. They were the #1, #3, #4, #5, #8, #10, #12, #16, #18, #20 and #33 top-grossing films of that year.

    https://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1983

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