March 6th, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine
The other day I was talking to someone about MAD‘s history and had to correct them about something that is a persistent inaccuracy about why MAD went from a comic book to a magazine: the mistaken belief that the 1954 congressional hearings on comic books and “juvenile delinquency” had anything to do with it. For some reason people think that Harvey Kurtzman and Bill Gaines changed MAD from a comic book to a magazine in order to avoid having to adhere to the then newly formed Comics Code Authority, a self-censoring body the comic book industry created to avoid the government censorship that was on… READ MORE
March 5th, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine
I often get asked what my favorite job for MAD has been, and while the standard answer is “the last one”, this one I did of the TV show “Breaking Bad” for MAD #516 (Aug 2012) and written by Desmond Devlin is right up there. Here are the pencil roughs for that job, plus all the final art. For some reason I did “full art” on this one and did not ink in the word boxes like I usually do. I honestly cannot remember why I decided to do that, but there it is. READ MORE
March 1st, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Bill would have been 96 today. I never met him, he passed away 18 years before my first piece appeared in his magazine. READ MORE
February 28th, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine
This makes sense considering I was asked to do traditional comic book style word balloons and have a more “comic book” feel in my latest MAD parody work. It was also an early rumor they were going back to the original comic book format.. READ MORE
February 21st, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine
And it’s STILL ITALICIZED?!?!! I’m learning this stuff along with the rest of you. Remember, I just draw the pictures. :/ READ MORE
February 21st, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine
The new MAD magazine’s twitter feed became active today, announcing more rebooting changes: READ MORE
February 20th, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Announcements are starting to happen about the MAD reboot (rebirth?) courtesy of DC Entertainment. MAD #551 will be a new MAD #1. Alfred has been updated. Lots of other new things will start to be announced leading up to the April release of MAD #1 (Vol 2). From DC co-publisher Dan DiDo’s Facebook page: More coverage from: Entertainment Weekly, SF Gate, Urban Daddy, News-A-Rama. My take…. no comment. Still getting used to it. READ MORE
February 19th, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Here’s a sneak peek at my piece in the latest issue of MAD, a parody of the TV show “This is Us” written by Desmond Devlin. Oh, and I did a self caricature for the “Gotcha: Mug Shots of Common (But Despicable) Criminals” feature written by Scott Maiko: Whadya mean you want to read the jokes in the word boxes? What do you think this is, a furshlugginer library? Go out and buy a copy, clod! READ MORE
