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April 23rd, 2012 | Posted in MAD Magazine
The show “What, Me Worry? 60 Years of MAD” opened this past weekend at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Fransisco, CA. Here’s one of many pictures you’ll find on the CAM Facebook page: Clicky to Embiggen… Shown above: MAD #1 cover reproduction, hand-colored by Marie Severin; Hex! splash page by Jack Davis from MAD #2; Melvin! splash page by John Severin, from MAD #2; cover to MAD #3 by Harvey Kurtzman; splash from Dragged Net! by Will Elder from MAD #3; cover to MAD #4 by Harvey Kurtzman; splash page from Shadow! by Will Elder, from MAD #4; house ad by Wally Wood from… READ MORE
April 20th, 2012 | Posted in General
I’m currently in Massachusetts where my theme park art concessions just opened at Six Flags New England, and I’m even working the chair! These guys are clearly thrilled to be getting thier drawing done… Another satisfied customer(s)! READ MORE
April 17th, 2012 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Final splash page, sans words… Since EW.com scooped me on the sneak peek of the MAD parody of The Hunger Games, this post will be more of a “behind the scenes” of the job. As always, clicky image to embiggen. The writer of the parody was Desmond Devlin. First pencil rough . . . Grade: F- Above is the first pencil rough of the splash. This was a complex splash, because all the word boxes were being spoken by one person (Stanley Tucci’s host character “Cesear Flickerman”), there were a LOT of word boxes, necessitating three rows, and most of them described a character that… READ MORE
April 16th, 2012 | Posted in MAD Magazine
On news stands (and presumably the iPad) April 24th, in comic book shops this week and in subscriber mailboxes today: MAD # 515 (June 2012) Cover (Mark Fredrickson) The Fundalini Pages (Rick Tulka, Jeff Kruse, Marc Hempel, Duck Edwing, Andrew Schwartzberg, Jacob Lambert, Sam Sisco, Dick DeBartolo, Kevin Pope, Anton Emdin, ) Fake iPhone Ads (Uncredited, appear throughout issue) The Hunger Pains (Desmond Devlin, Tom Richmond) Everyday Annoyances of Elderly Monsters (John Caldwell) Hazard Fraught Tools (Scott Maiko, Scott Bricher) Least Revered Classical Music (Jeff Kruse) The MAD Vault- MAD #477, 2007 (Sergio Aragon?¬©s, Colors: Tom Luth) Planet TAD!!!!! (Writer: Tim Carvell) The Strip Club… READ MORE
April 6th, 2012 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Entertainment Weekly.com just posted an exclusive first look at MAD #515’s parody of The Hunger Games movie, with art by me and written by Desmond Devlin. Go check out the sneak peek, which includes two more pages of the parody! The issue will be on newsstands (and in the new iMad app) on April 24th. READ MORE
April 3rd, 2012 | Posted in MAD Magazine
As promised, on Sunday DC Entertainment and MAD Magazine released the MAD iPad app (which I am unofficially calling iMad, so no lawsuits, Apple!) Here’s a hands-on tour of the new app: Getting Started First off, while it is an “app”, it downloads into the Apple “Newsstand” area, not directly on to the iPad pages, which makes sense. On the Newsstand! Looks lonely… I may have to subscribe to other magazines. Do they still make Tigerbeat? Once you open the app, you are asked if you want push notifications when a new issue is available (I said yes), and then you are taken to a… READ MORE
March 29th, 2012 | Posted in MAD Magazine
The National Cartoonists Society Reubens Awards are taking place in Las Vegas over Memorial Day weekend. The awards themselves are only part of the festivities… NCS members are going to be treated to some great speakers in Ray Billingsley (Curtis), Jim Davis (Garfield), Stan Goldberg (Archie, recipient of the NCS Gold Key Award), Butch Hartmann (The Fairly Oddparents, Danny Phantom, T.U.F.F. Puppy), Mark Simon (Animatics and Storyboards, Inc.) discussion publicity and promotion and a panel of cartoonists talking about making a living in cartooning in the 21st Century including Michael Jantze (The Norm), Dave Kellett (Sheldon, Drive) and John Lotshaw (Accidental Centaurs). Plus, the… READ MORE
March 22nd, 2012 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Got a fun surprise when I picked up a copy of Sergio Aragon?¬©s Funnies #7 at my local comic book shop: ©2012 Bongo Comics- used with permission ©2012 Bongo Comics- used with permission Hey, that’s me on the far right! I’ve been Sergio-ized in Sergio Aragon?¬©s Funnies! That is way cool. Sergio began issue #7 of his newest comic book title with a page about the MAD reunion in Savannah Georgia last fall that I was fortunate enough to attend and not be kicked out of just because I have only one decade of working for MAD under my belt and not five or so… READ MORE
