MAD Magazine
November 17th, 2025 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Time for another step along the quickly shortening path looking back at my work for MAD Magazine. We really are catching up to present day, having started this journey way back in November of 2020, when it looked like I may have done my last job for MAD. Fast forward five years and MAD has started having more frequent new material, so as it turns out that road hasn’t quite closed down yet. But I digress… in this episode we look back at what is (so far) the last job cover I did for the magazine. The theme of the issue was “comedy” but more… READ MORE
November 10th, 2025 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Here we go with another step on my long and winding road of work for MAD Magazine. This is a tribute to the great Al Jaffee from MAD #32, Aug 2023. This is one of the more depressing moments in my time with MAD, and for the magazine. At this time MAD really was 100% reprint material with only a new cover and a new Johnny Sampson Fold-In as new content. It took something big like the 70th anniversary almost a year earlier or the passing of one of the legends of “The Usual Gang of Idiots” to get the suits upstairs to open up… READ MORE
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
