MAD Magazine
October 19th, 2012 | Posted in MAD Magazine
This past week I went to NYC to participate in the filming of a CBS Sunday Morning special segment on MAD’s 60th anniversary, and spent Wednesday in the MAD offices with several other members of the Usual Gang of Idiots. Not sure I will actually be on TV at all, but it was fun to hang out. Present were the entire MAD staff (including longtime artist and current art director Sam Viviano) as well as UGOI’s Tom Bunk, Dick DeBartolo,¬¨‚ĆDesmond Devlin, Al Jaffee, Peter Kuper, Jacob Lambert (also a staffer now), Matt Lassen, Patrick Merrell and James Warhola, Here are some pictures (clicky to embiggen):… READ MORE
October 18th, 2012 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Here is a great article on MAD‘s 60 years of history from FastCompany.com, which includes a slideshow of covers, and interview with MAD editor John Ficarra and plenty of other pics (even one with me in it from our Comic-Con panel!). Well worth a read… READ MORE
October 16th, 2012 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Clicky to embiggen… Well, since this is the whole article I guess it doesn’t qualify as a “sneak peek”, but here it is. Not my usual MAD style but a fun departure on a rare “not a movie or TV parody” job. I thought the feature needed a painted look. Article written by Barry Liebmann. Speaking of movie parodies, check out the 8 page tour-de-force “Twilight” parody (all 5 movies!) in this issue written by Desmond Devlin with art by terrific Aussie illustrator Anton Emdin. It almost makes me wish I’d seen the movies or read the books so I knew what the hell they… READ MORE
October 15th, 2012 | Posted in MAD Magazine
On news stands Oct 23rd, in comic book shops this week, available for download on the iPad right now, and in many subscriber mailboxes already: MAD # 518 (December 2012) Cover (Mark Fredrickson) The Fundalini Pages (Jeff Kruse, Ward Sutton, Bob Staake, Rick Tulka, Emily Flake, Nick Meglin, Paul Coker, Sam Sisco, Jay Ruth, Kenny Keil, Hermann Mejia, Garth Gerhart, Peter Bagge, Dick DeBartolo, John Caldwell) The Toilet Saga (Desmond Devlin, Anton Emdin) Are You and activist or a Slacktivist? (Desmond Devlin, Paul Coker) A MAD Look at College (Sergio Aragon?¬©s, Colors: Tom Luth) 2013 MAD Pull-Out Calendar (John Caldwell) Expectorate Native American Sputum- A… READ MORE
September 20th, 2012 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Back in August MAD announced the next book in it’s MAD’s Greatest Artists series: this one featuring the incomparable Mort Drucker. Today on their excellent official blog, The Idiotical, MAD gives us some more info on the book, including the release date of Oct. 23rd, and a sneak peek at a few of the pieces that will be inside, all selected by Mort himself, including this beauty of a full-color, pull-out vintage poster that is reprinted for the first time in almost 50 years: No-brainer, gotta have it, pre-ordered already sort of book. READ MORE
September 6th, 2012 | Posted in MAD Magazine
The fine folks at MAD Magazine tell me that Bo Confidential, the book I illustrated for them several years ago under a nightmarish deadline, is now available as a digital download through the MAD app on the iPad for the ridiculously exorbitant low price of $1.99 (cheap). There are eventual plans of making it available on other platforms as a regular book download (i.e. the Kindle Fire, Nook color, etc) but no timeframe on that. It is cool that the MAD app is adding things like this to the mix of available content on the iPad. They already have made special issues like the MAD… READ MORE
August 21st, 2012 | Posted in MAD Magazine
You can always “Depends” on MAD to take the high road on its official blog The Idiotical. Checkout the rest of their spoof posters of “The Expendables 2” here, and visit regularly for daily MADness. READ MORE
August 17th, 2012 | Posted in MAD Magazine
MAD continues it’s “MAD’s Greatest Artists” book series with the incomparable Mort Drucker. This hardcover beauty will be available Oct. 23rd, and can be preordered now on Amazon. I got a chance to see a mock-up bound copy of this book when I visited the MAD offices back in June. Obviously it’s not a “complete” collection of Mort’s MAD work . . . having been in over 400 issues that would need many volumes. This is a selection of Mort’s best work, picked by someone who ought to know- Mort himself. There is also a great pull out color poster. This book celebrates the work… READ MORE
