May 8th, 2011 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: I’m just curious and you may or may not be the man to ask but I’m going to anyway, how does MAD magazine get around copyright infringement when you guys do film parodies? I mean it’s a parody but there’s no question about which film the original is, do you ask for permission from the film studio? Has this ever come up I mean it is essentially using the likeness of celebrity figures and a bunch of copyrighted material to create those parodies and I’m just curious how you guys get around it. Or has it ever even come up? A: Satire and parody… READ MORE
May 7th, 2011 | Posted in News
Go visit your local comic shop and getcha free comics! READ MORE
May 6th, 2011 | Posted in General
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpUE-oMpjNE[/youtube] This video is pretty long but well worth the time. John Kascht is a terrific caricature illustrator who I met when he was a guest speaker at one of the International Society of Caricature Artist’s conventions. This video isn’t just about drawing Conan O’Brien, it’s about the caricature as an art form and the application of this art form in depicting celebrities that the world is intimately familiar with. Many thanks to Marv Sohlo for the heads up on this! READ MORE
May 5th, 2011 | Posted in General
It has become apparent to me over the last few weeks I am going to have to step back from doing daily and involved writing on The MAD Blog for much of the month of May. My regular work, my theme park operations starting, and trying to finish the book, is taking it’s toll…something has to give. The MAD Blog will cut back to a Monday, Wednesday (Sketch o’the Week), Friday and Sunday (Mailbag) schedule through the end of the month. With the possible exception of a quick news post here and there, these will be the only days with active posts, and some of… READ MORE
May 4th, 2011 | Posted in On the Drawing Board
This week’s subject, east coast rapper Jay Z. READ MORE
May 2nd, 2011 | Posted in News
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April 30th, 2011 | Posted in Mailbag
Q: Here’s an obscure question about your history with MAD Magazine: What was your longest run of appearing in consecutive issues? A. I had to look that one up. I am terrible at remembering things like issue numbers or what I did for what issue. To combat this, I keep a list that I simply add to the bottom of with each new MAD job. Prior to the magazine going quarterly, the longest number of issues I had consecutive appearances in was 11, starting with “MAD‘s Exclusive Backstage Tour of The Family Guy” in MAD # 458 (Oct. 2005), and ending with “Stuporman Reruns!” in… READ MORE
April 29th, 2011 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Oops…might have drawn Rich’s nose too big . . . Last month I got an email from actor Rich Sommer, who plays the character “Harry Crane” on Mad Men. Turns out Rich is a fan of MAD Magazine, and also originally from Minnesota. He wrote to tell me he and the rest of the cast loved the show’s parody in MAD, and he invited me to attend a fundraiser for a Minneapolis improv theater he’s associated with. I was able to attend, and got to meet Rich and enjoy the show. I donated a signed copy of the magazine for the fundraiser, which may have… READ MORE
