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December 10th, 2013 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Clicky to visit the full sized sneak peek… What?!? ANOTHER exclusive sneak peek at one of MAD‘s 20 Dumbest People, Things and Events of 2013??!?¬¨‚Ć At this rate you won’t actually have to buy the issue at all! This is Dumb Thing #3, courtesy of the Huffington Post. Writer: Desmond Devlin, Artist: Drew Friedman. READ MORE
December 10th, 2013 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Clicky to see the full sized sneak peek at CraveOnline Yest another exclusive peek at one of MAD‘s “20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2103”, this one courtesy of CraveOnline. It’s a mashup of “The Big Bang Theory” and the NRA, written by Mike Morse and featuring some awesome caricatures by Sam Sisco. READ MORE
December 10th, 2013 | Posted in MAD Magazine
In MAD #525 due out next week, but already available on the iPad in in comic book shops, I did the art on a parody of the TV show “The Following”, written by Arnie Kogen. The splash was already debuted as a web exclusive last week… here are a few panels for the rest of the parody: Clicky this one to embiggen… What, no words? Of course not… we have to try and get you to by the ferslugginer thing after all! I’m afraid I wasn’t a very big fan of the show… the premise was so totally unbelievable, the good guys so incredibly unlucky… READ MORE
December 9th, 2013 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Here’s an interesting choice for an exclusive sneak peek at MAD #525- The Fundalini Pages- Courtesy of Man Cave Daily! READ MORE
December 9th, 2013 | Posted in MAD Magazine
On news stands everywhere on Dec. 17th, in comic book shops this week, in some lucky subscriber’s mailboxes already and available digitally immediately via the MAD iPad app: MAD # 525 (February 2014) Cover (Mark Fredrickson) The Fundalini Pages (Jeff Kruse, Aton Emdin, Rick Tulka, Bob Eckstein, Matt Lassen, Justin Peterson, Kevin Pope, Teresa Burns Parkhurst, Desmond Devlin, Tom Bunk, Bob Staake, Steven Weissman, Stan Sinberg, John Kerschbaum) The Swallowing (Arnie Kogen, Tom Richmond) Spy vs Spy (Peter Kuper) Planet Tad!!!!! (Writer: Tim Carvell) The MAD 20- The Dumbest People, Events, and Things of 2013 The Dysfunctional U.S. Congress (Jay Rath, Tom Richmond) The Boston… READ MORE
December 8th, 2013 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: What your experiences in mailing original artwork… you know good ol’ snail mail.¬¨‚Ć Any carriers to avoid? Any horror stories? Advice? A: I’m pretty paranoid about mailing originals, so I have had very few issues with doing so. The most important thing is how you package it. Basically, you have to box it up anticipating it will be dropped, thrown, stepped on and otherwise carelessly treated from the beginning to end of the journey. If you package it securely enough that none of those things will damage the artwork, you will be alright. I used to (briefly) work in a UPS warehouse, so I… READ MORE
December 7th, 2013 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Visit PopMatters.com for the sneak peek It’s another exclusive look into MAD‘s “20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2013”, this one courtesy of Popmatters.com! Visit their website for a closer look at Dumb Thing #15: Obama’s backpedaling after his tough talk on if Syria starting trotting out chemical weapons, which of course they did. Also on the post is a long, thoughtful, and intelligently written post about the poignancy and cleverness of this parody of the film “Silver Linings Playbook”… which entirely misses the fact that this is not a parody of that movie at all but a political commentary that used the movie’s… READ MORE
December 6th, 2013 | Posted in General
Shipping times get hairy as the holiday approaches… if you are thinking about getting something from the Studio Store in time to wrap up for a Christmas present, now’s the time! I have only 15 Limited Artist Editions of my book left! Have a caricature of you or the person of your choice drawn by me inside a copy of The Mad Art of Caricature!, complete with a hand-numbered bookplate. Only 120 of these limited editions will ever be made, and 105 of them are gone. I’m down to my last 44 Doctor Who “The Doctor is In” limited edition prints. Get one for that… READ MORE