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January 29th, 2009 | Posted in General
Funny how life works. Last week DC Comics and Time Warner announced that MAD will be going from a monthly to a quarterly publication, presumably due to dropping circulation amid the increasing costs and difficulties of a badly ailing magazine marketplace. Almost simultaneously, MAD began getting the most attention I’ve seen it receive in a long time from the media and on the internet from its latest issue, cover pictured above. The inside of the issue featured “The First 100 Minutes of the Obama Presidency” as well as the feature I did the art for and previously mentioned, “MAD Exposes Who’s Thinking What at the… READ MORE
January 26th, 2009 | Posted in General
There’s been a lot of discussion over “teh interweb” the last few days about DC Comic’s announcement that MAD will be switching to a quarterly as of issue #500 in April. I’ve read a lot of lamenting about “the good old days” and some expected responses about how it’s what MAD deserves because its “content has gone downhill” in the last 5, 10, 15, 20 years…. blah, blah, blah. Some people are determined to blame the content of MAD for the current state of the magazine. Anybody who honestly thinks the problems MAD has had with its circulation and readership is a result of its… READ MORE
January 22nd, 2009 | Posted in General
Very busy right now, but I ran across this video on the National Caricaturist Network message boards this morning, posted by Canadian editorial cartoonist, caricaturist and illustrator Patrick LaMontagne that I thought was not only hilarious but eerily accurate. If you are ever wondering why art directors sometimes make what seems like a simple, straightforward illustration job very complicated and convoluted instead, here’s your answer: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwqPYeTSYng[/youtube] It would be less funny if it wasn’t so true. Replace the stop sign with an illustration of someone driving a car or similar, and you get the idea. READ MORE
January 20th, 2009 | Posted in General
Number One Son Thomas is ready to rock! I took a break from my current crazy deadline job to finally take my twelve year old son Tom to his first concert last night… AC/DC. I say “finally” because I had purchased the tickets through my trainer months ago as an early Christmas present for Tom, and we went to the concert center when AC/DC was in town only to find out they were making TWO stops in St. Paul, MN on this tour… and we had tickets for the show two months later. Ooops. We went home disappointed that night, but made up for it… READ MORE
January 16th, 2009 | Posted in General
Back to shameless begging… The great Google ad experiment is over. Starting today the ads (as you can see) that for the last year or so have been littering my sidebar are gone. I placed them there in an effort to “monetize” my blog… in other words try to make a little dough to help justify the time and effort I put into The MAD Blog. The idea was to get advertisers to pay me through the Google Adsense program, which would generate some revenue but not cost the readers of the blog a dime. It didn’t work out too well. The way Google ads… READ MORE
January 14th, 2009 | Posted in General
Just a FYI- I have gotten a number of complaints over the last few months about it being a hassle to register just to post comments on The MAD Blog. Therefore I have set the blog to no longer require this. However comment moderation is still in play… READ MORE
January 5th, 2009 | Posted in General
Two jobs with deadlines today and a bunch of stuff to do before a short trip to Orlando requires an appearance by the Dreaded Deadline Demon. Bummer. READ MORE
January 2nd, 2009 | Posted in General
…of a local North Carolina politician for The Independent. This will appear in their “Good Old Boys Gone Bad” column in print and online on Sunday. I guess the 2009 freelance campaign is officially underway. READ MORE
