As I am still swamped with catch up work following my vacation, this week’s “Sketch o’ the Week” is another cop out from an actual job. These drawings are part of a concept study for a statue that may or may not be produced as a promotional item for the film “I Want Your Money”, for which I did a bunch of animated character design and storyboard work. READ MORE
Here is an interesting time line of the evolution of MAD Magazine’s logo: The illustrations within the logo appeared intermittently after the solid color one debuted in MAD #87, and pre-1955 several issues of MAD had a logo that matched the cover concept, like a parody of LIFE magazine in MAD #11, a newspaper headline in MAD #16 and a few other examples. This is from the MAD Mumblings forum I mentioned yesterday, courtesy of contributor Mark AKA “THEMADBUG!” from Australia. The thread it’s from is a petition to get MAD to revert to the classic logo that was used for over 30 years from… READ MORE
©2010 MAD Magazine and E.C. Publications, used with permission … no, sadly this is not the title of a new book from MAD. That would be one beat-up book by the time readers got done doing the fold-ins… all 426 of them. How do I know Al has done 426 fold-ins for MAD? Thanks to Doug Gilford, the author of The MAD Cover Site, that’s how. Some weeks ago I posted an announcement from MAD calling for birthday wishes to be sent in for Al, who turns 90 on March 13th. The well wishes had to be actual cards, letter, etc. and not your garden-variety… READ MORE
Only use this when the need is overwhelming. Do not abuse. READ MORE
Q: Has your PC ever gone down in the middle of a big job\tight deadline? How do you handle this? Has travel ever affected you meeting a deadline? Yes, I once had my hard drive melt on me in the middle of doing two big jobs. It went down on a Monday while I was working on a job due that day and had a MAD job to finish by Wednesday. The disaster happened to my formerly trusty Dell Workstation… here’s my blog post from that day: Well, it finally happened. This morning I am coloring happily along in PhotoShop when the blue screen of… READ MORE
MAD writers Arnie Kogen, Dick DeBartolo and Desmond Devlin were tasked by CBC Radio to come up with MAD style titles for the 2011 Oscar nominated films. In this short radio interview, they compare what they came up with and discuss a little about their thought process (or lack thereof). I would make a joke about their having faces made for radio, but that is too obvious. Many thanks to Doug Gilford of the excellent MAD Cover Site and the MAD Mumblings forum for the heads up! READ MORE
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Click for a closer look… As promised, above is the splash page and here are some images from the parody of “Mad Men” in MAD #508.. written by Arnie Kogen: All images ©2010 E.C. Publications/MAD Magazine, used with permission. READ MORE
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