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February 8th, 2011 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Today several sources are carrying an AP story on the next issue of MAD and it’s cover boy, Alfred E. Bieber. Due on news stands on February 22nd, the issue takes some shots at the Canadian singer including dissing his movie, his book, his music and, of course, the fact that he’s Canadian. 😛 I’ll publish a table of contents of the issue likely Thursday, in which I have a 6 page parody of a popular TV show. I can’t say the name of the show until I get the official okay from the guys at MAD, so I won’t MENtion it here until I… READ MORE
February 8th, 2011 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Last night’s new episode featured a segment I worked on called “Malcolm in the Middle Earth”. Here are some of the characters I drew for the episode: READ MORE
February 5th, 2011 | Posted in MAD Magazine
There is going to be a new book on the career and art of Jack Davis set to be released on Aug 17th. From the publisher: Jack Davis: Drawing American Pop Culture is a gigantic, unparalleled career-spanning retrospective, between whose hard covers resides the greatest collection … in terms of both quantity and quality … of Jack Davis’ work ever assembled! It includes work from every stage of his long and varied career, such as: excerpts of satirical drawings from his college humor ‘zine, The Bull Sheet; examples of his comics work from EC, MAD, Humbug, Trump, and obscure work he did for other companies… READ MORE
February 3rd, 2011 | Posted in MAD Magazine
©2010 MAD Magazine and E.C. Publications, used with permission MAD #508 is hot off the presses and will be showing up in mailboxes and news stands soon… I’ll post a table of contents and some sneak peeks of my contribution to the issue when that date gets closer. One thing readers will find in this latest issue is a call for some birthday love for the great Al Jaffee… he of the fold-ins, snappy answers and lots of other cartoony goodness over the last five decades or so in MAD. Al turns 90 on March 13th. Here’s what you’ll find in MAD #508 on the… READ MORE
January 28th, 2011 | Posted in MAD Magazine
It looks like the second half of season one of the animated “MAD” on the Cartoon Network kicks off on Monday, Feb. 7th with a new episode that includes a segment I worked on called “Malcolm in the Middle Earth”. Be sure and toon in. I’ll post some images from the work I did after the segment has aired. READ MORE
January 3rd, 2011 | Posted in General
Here’s a great article in the Huffington Post on the legendary Al Jaffee. READ MORE
December 26th, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Q: I read in your blog post about the increasing scarcity of original commercial art that you have never done a cover for MAD Magazine proper. I was wondering when we are going to see a Richmond cover? A: The post the question is referring to is here, if anyone is interested. The answer to your question is likely next door to never. MAD‘s covers are a different animal than the interior art, and most require a certain style of artwork that is not my fort?¬©: the realistic painting. MAD covers are singular and necessarily high impact gags that the editors and staff spend a… READ MORE
December 23rd, 2010 | Posted in MAD Magazine
As promised, here are some of the images from my parody of the new Harry Potter movie in MAD #507, written by Desmond Devlin: Splash page- Click for a closer look… Here’s the pencil rough of the splash- Click for a closer look… A few panels from the story: I got a bit of a surprise when The Lovely Anna mentioned she’d like to appear in this parody, specifically as the character “Mafalda Hopkirk”, who Hermione impersonates to get into the Ministry of Magic in the film (and the book). Thus: Yes, that’s The Lovely Anna in the striped suit being bossy… My apologies to… READ MORE
