A MAD #6 Favorite Panel: #2!

Whoops, this was supposed to post next Monday! Oh well. Here’s my favorite panel from “Merry Poopins Visits the White House” from MAD #6. In case you missed them, here’s the splash and a panel from page 3.

I liked this panel just because it’s the better of the caricatures I did of Emily Blunt and Lin Manuel Miranda. The filmmakers went out of their way to try and make Emily Blunt look a lot less like Emily Blunt in this film, so capturing her was difficult. Ordinarily she has these sleeply-lidded eyes with a pronounced dark bulge under them, and a kind of protruding upper lip almost like she has an overbite she’s trying to cover up. It seemed to me like they used makeup and movie magic to minimize those features. Lin Manual Miranda was easy to draw, and a lot of fun. He’s supposedly a MAD fan so maybe he’ll enjoy this starring role in the spoof.

MAD #6 is on sale now at a furshlugginer news stand or comic book shop near you!