MAD Magazine
October 27th, 2025 | Posted in MAD Magazine
We are now deep in the MAD timeline where the magazine is basically 100% reprinted material, with only the cover and a Johnny Sampson Fold-In as new content. In the past year or two I got a chance to do a few covers, and this art for MAD #31, Jun 2023 is one of them. This issue was curated around a medical theme, featuring my art in spoofs of “Scrubs” and “Grey’s Anatomy” and lost of other pieces about doctors, hospitals, medicine, etc. Although she didn’t take credit for it MAD head honcho Suzy Hutchinson wrote this cover gag, and it’s a pretty good one.… READ MORE
October 6th, 2025 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Welcome again clods to another installment of the rapidly closing trail of travesty that was my work for MAD Magazine… Oh look! ANOTHER “Batman” assignment! If you’ll recall our last two episodes featured a Batman cover and a two page Batman gag feature from MAD #23. It’s a good thing I am well versed in all things Batman! It was almost a year previous I did those two pieces for #23. Since then, nothing. Zero. Nada. Zip. Goose egg. Zilcho. It looked like maybe I was really done with MAD. Then the 70th anniversary of the magazine happened, and the beancounters in the accounting department… READ MORE
September 1st, 2025 | Posted in MAD Magazine
It’s time for another entry in the long and dusty tome that is the history of my work for MAD Magazine. Holy New Content, Batman! This would be the first new piece inside the magazine I had done in eight months. MAD Empress Suzy Hutchinson convinced DC to open the checkbook so SOMETHING inside the magazine related to the current subject matter on the cover, and this issue was all about “The Batman” film that had just come out. So, Desmond Devlin and I teamed up on this two pager that appeared in MAD #23, February 2022. Above are the pencils I turned in. I… READ MORE
August 25th, 2025 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Time again for another entry into the seemingly never ending trek through my work at MAD Magazine. In this episode we look at what was my fifth cover for MAD… one featuring Batman no less! The gag for this one was written by Desmond Devlin. The gag for this one is a little hard to “get”, especially if you don’t know what gargoyles on gothic buildings are actually for. The term “Gargoyle” comes from the French term gargouille, composed of the root garg (a form of gurg)– a word meant to imitate the sound of water (i.e. gurgling) and the Old French word goule meaning… READ MORE
August 4th, 2025 | Posted in MAD Magazine
We’ve reached another milestone in our ongoing trek looking back at my career with MAD, but this is one of the depressing ones. I both wrote and drew this two pager for the ongoing feature “The Wisenheim Museum” for MAD #15, Aug 2020. This piece was significant for me for several reasons. It was the first piece I ever both drew AND wrote for the magazine. I’d do one more a few years later (another remembrance sort of piece), but at the time this was a first for me. It came about when following the passing of the great Mort Drucker in April of 2020, MAD… READ MORE
July 7th, 2025 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Here we go with yet another entry in our intrepid and insipid diary of the work I did for MAD magazine. In this episode we look back at a two page Al Jaffee homage done for MAD #14, August 2020 called “Cheat Your Way to Olympic Gold!” written by Desmond Devlin, plus a bonus piece of art I did for the issue. Here’s page two: MAD #14 was a tribute for Al Jaffee, who officially retired with the appearance of his final original Fold-In in the issue. Actually Al really stopped doing the Fold-Ins with the one that appeared in MAD #6 (April 2019), since… READ MORE
June 30th, 2025 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Here we go with another of the stumbling steps on the path that was my work for MAD Magazine. This week is another oddball sort of assignment that, frankly, I still have no idea what the joke was really supposed to be. It was written by Grant Reed, and appeared in MAD #13, June 2020. I guess it’s supposed to be a spoof of an ad for the “Trinity Broadcasting Network”, which is a large religious TV network, incorporating Kanye West‘s self-deified new name “Yeezus” and comparing the huckstering ways of the Kardashians and the church network, which solicits donations on its web site in… READ MORE
June 22nd, 2025 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Welcome to the beginning of the end. MAD #12 (April 2020) was released shortly before the pandemic hit, but COVID had little to do with what was happening at MAD. This was the first issue that showed what MAD was going to be like going forward… issues built around a theme with features related to that theme curated from the archives. This issue’s theme was TV. Of the 56 pages in the magazine, only 13 featured all new material, not including the cover and the letters/table of contents pages. There were also a handful of pages that were colorized versions of previously B&W only art.… READ MORE
