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March 14th, 2013 | Posted in General
Back in January I got a call from MAD art director Sam Viviano about a side project they were working on…DC wanted to celebrate MAD‘s 60th anniversary with a series of variant covers by the Usual Gang of Idiots for thirteen of their titles. Knowing that I am a huge Batman fan, Sam suggested to the MAD editors that I get to do one of the Batman titles. I was assigned the cover of “Detective Comics”. Given my own choice, I would have picked Detective as well, as opposed to “Batman”. Detective Comics was the title I collected as a kid, and it being the… READ MORE
March 7th, 2013 | Posted in General
Another exclusive look at one of the 13 MAD variant covers for various DC Comics titles comes our way courtesy of the good folks at Comic Book Resources. This is the cover of Superman #19, done by the incomparable Al Jaffee. So that’s one Fold-In cover and one “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions” cover. I wonder if they had Paul Coker Jr. do a “Horrifying Clich?¬©s” cover for “Constantine”? I imagine one of these days they’ll release the one I did. READ MORE
March 5th, 2013 | Posted in General
Here’s another one! TheMarySue.com has an exclusive first look at Peter Kuper‘s Spy vs. Spy cover for Wonder Woman. READ MORE
February 28th, 2013 | Posted in General
The art for my sold out “Secret Agent Man” print is featured as a double page spread in this James Bond caricature tribute book, which is not really in print yet but is now being offered as a sort of “Kickstarter” preorder from a company called Mad Artist Publishing. The deal is they need 350 preorders to do a print run of this hardcover book with a slipcase. I was reluctant to have my artwork in the book initially, thinking it was unlikely the publisher had secured the rights from MGM and the Fleming estate, but apparently they did so it’s all legal. There is… READ MORE
February 24th, 2013 | Posted in General
Q: How do I submit work to MAD? A: I get this one a lot. The answer is it depends. If you are going to submit really excellent work in an effort to steal my job, please submit it to: MAD Magazine C/O:¬¨‚Ć Dr. Op Dedd 43 Skidoo Ave. Suite 0 Nowheresville, NY 0U812 However if you are looking to submit less dangerous work, either writing or art, you are in luck! MAD just put up a web page where you can upload samples for them to peruse at their leisure! Here’s some of what they say on that page about what they are looking… READ MORE
February 22nd, 2013 | Posted in General
Clicky any of these images to embiggen… and I mean EMBIGGEN! The Lovely Anna gets very annoyed with me over one thing…okay, over many things, but this one thing in particular…I’m very impatient when it comes to things I want to have. I tend to get them right away and leave her nothing to buy me for gifts on my birthday or Christmas. Well, here’s another thing she won’t be able to get me for my birthday: the enormous new book Tales Calculated to Drive You MAD: Artist’s Edition. I saw an unboxing video of this book some weeks ago and blogged about it being… READ MORE
February 15th, 2013 | Posted in General
You have to love Stephen Colbert‘s comment about the paint stylings of former president George W. Bush: “That is a bold, artistic vision that says “faces are hard.'” The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive That reminds me of a Saturday Night Live skit from many years ago, right after the Unibomber was captured after this police sketch of him circulated around for what seemed like years: Of course no one in their right mind thought this would be of any help to those trying to identify and apprehend the Unibomber. That sketch could be of anybody. In… READ MORE
February 12th, 2013 | Posted in General
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