October 13th, 2015 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Now available everywhere magazines are still sold (if you can find any of those places)!!: Cover (Mark Fredrickson) Letters and Tomatoes (Ed.) The Fundalini Pages (Jeff Kruse, Kevin Pope, J.C. uffy, Desmond Devlin, Josh Mecouch, Matt Lassen, Rick Tulka, Glen Le Lievre, Kenny Keil, Jose Garabaldi, Patrick Merrell, Sam Sisco, P.C. Vey, Samuel Ferri, ) Messy Chef Junior (Dick DeBartolo, Tom Bunk) Spy vs. Spy (Peter Kuper) The Substitute Teacher’s Manual (Kenny Keil, John Kershbaum) The Hunger Games Vs. NFL Games (Artist: Paul Coker) The Previously Untold Show-Biz Secrets of Nature Documentaries (John Caldwell 2016 Star Wars Calendar (Various) A MAD Look at Beer (Sergio… READ MORE
October 12th, 2015 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: Have you read about the controversy concerning charging for a signature when appearing at a comic book convention, and what are your thoughts about it? A: This is a timely question seeing as I just got done at New York Comic Con which is why, incidentally, the Sunday Mailbag question is appearing on Monday this week. My apologies. The “controversy” mentioned refers to some comments made by a few notable comics professionals who think everyone should be charging money at comic cons for signing a comic or piece of work they did, and that not doing so is a disservice to other professionals and… READ MORE
October 9th, 2015 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Clicky any to embiggen… This parody of “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” was written by Desmond Devlin and published in MAD #424, December 2002. Wieghing in at 9 pages, it is the longest piece I have ever done for the magazine. READ MORE
October 8th, 2015 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Clicky any to embiggen… My first movie parody was of the Oscar winning film “Traffic”, written by Arnie Kogen and published in MAD #405, May 2001. If you’ve ever seen the film you’ll understand the color palettes I used… all the scenes that took place in Mexico had a yellow and brown cast to them, the ones shot in DC were blue, and those from San Diego were normal color. READ MORE
October 7th, 2015 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Clicky any to embiggen… This was the first parody of any kind I did for MAD, a spoof of the TV show “Malcolm in the Middle”, written by Desmond Devlin and published in MAD #403, March 2001. READ MORE
October 6th, 2015 | Posted in MAD Magazine
“Clicky to embiggen… I’m getting ready to head out to NYC tomorrow to do the New York Comic Con this weekend, so in deference to my having no time to do anything original on the blog the next few days will be posts looking back on some milestones of my 15 years with MAD. I’ve posted this a few times in the Sunday Mailbag, but the above was the very first piece I ever had published in MAD Magazine… issue #399, Nov 2000. “Gadgets to Really Make Home Theater Like Going to the Movies!” written by Dick DeBartolo! Sorry I don’t have an image with… READ MORE
October 5th, 2015 | Posted in Monday MADness
Fifteen years ago this month The Lovely Anna threw a party at our house to celebrate the release of MAD #399, which contained my very first published piece for the magazine. A lot of water has passed under the bridge since that issue hit the stands. Here are some stats and facts from my one and a half decades with MAD: #399 turned out to be the last fully black and white issue of MAD printed on the old paper stock. #400 was a special color anniversary issue, #401 and #402 contained color portions and were on the upgraded stock, and in #403 it was… READ MORE
October 4th, 2015 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: You are a big Batman fan. So what do you think which Batman comics / stories / graphic novels every Batman fan should have read? A: I’ll be honest with you, I haven’t read many Batman comic books in the last 20 years. Back in the 90’s the Batman stories became really dumb IMO, with lame main villains like “The Ventriloquist” and story lines like when Bruce started taking steroids to get stronger and dealt with ‘roid rage. Then came the Bane story line with replacement Batmen and weird time travel stuff. My interest waned badly and other than the occasional issue or story… READ MORE
