Okay these are not really from MAD. They are a bunch of MAD sketch covers I did for my “Virtual Artist’s Alley” table I have been doing in lieu of actual comic-cons, which of course are not happening right now. If you like these my next virtual artists alley event will likely be in March. BTW these are all done using brush pens and Copic markers. READ MORE
This was one of my favorite movie parodies from the short lived “Burbank MAD” era, written by my CLAPTRAP collaborator Desmond Devlin! READ MORE
Exactly 20 years ago this week, MAD #399 hit newsstands (for you kids out there a “newsstand” was a place where people bought magazines, newspapers, and chewing gum). Pages 30 and 31 of that issue featured my first printed piece in MAD, pictured above. It was written by MAD‘s MADDEST WRITER Dick DeBartolo. We threw a MAD party at our house. I was 34 years old and my youngest kid was 4. Today he is 24, a college graduate, homeowner, and currently on his honeymoon. Time flies. I still have both the rough pencil sketch and the original inks from this job: READ MORE
Well, not “on the stands” since MAD is no longer on newsstands anywhere. It’s not in comic book shops either because that won’t happen until Wednesday, assuming you can find a copy in a comic book shop at all. It is, however, in most subscriber’s mailboxes already. I’m no longer going to list the contents of the issues, since the vast majority of it is reprinted material. I’ll just list anything that’s new. So here you go: Cover (Bob Lizarraga) Spy vs. Spy (Peter Kuper) Dastardly Dr. Bunk’s MAD Monster Lab (Tom Bunk) Classic Movie Scenes We’d Like to See (Sergio Aragonés) Fold-In (Johnny Sampson)… READ MORE
I taught my final workshop for the foreseeable future this past weekend in Chicago (more workshop news tomorrow). One of the artists participating was Scott Olney, who has been one of the people I most look forward to seeing when I do comic cons in the Chicago area. Fist, he’s a cool guy who is always fun to chat with. Second, he always has a challenge for me with a “Alfred as…” comic-con commission. He names some obscure Marvel character and has me draw Alfred E. Neuman as that character. There are always fun because it can he tough to figure out how to “Alfredize”… READ MORE
I received my comp copies of MAD #16 in the mail the other day. The issue should start showing up in subscriber’s mailboxes in the next week or two, and will be in comic book stores in early October. I won’t do my “contents” post until the issue is officially released, but I can share that this issue has some new material in it, including a new Spy vs. Spy by Peter Kuper, a two page Tom Bunk masterpiece, a two pager by Sergio Aragonés and a fold-in by Johnny Sampson. That’s also a new cover by Bob Lizarraga. What it does not contain is… READ MORE
In honor of today being the first day of school here in Minnesota, today’s Monday MADness is a look back at a feature called “35 Scholarly Reasons Why School Sucks” from MAD #464, April 2006. Written by Jacob Lambert, with with spot illustrations by myself and Peter Bagge. These are all the spots I did: READ MORE
I realized the other day I never did my usual listing of contents for MAD #15. The issue has been out for a month already, but here you go: Cover (Isabel Samaras) Snappy Answers to Super-Stupid Questions (Kerry Callen) Spy vs. Spy (Peter Kuper) ECCCH-Men* (Dick Debartolo, Sam Viviano, Colors: Nathan Kane) MAD #327, May 1994 With Great Power Comes Great Instability (Jon Adams) New Comic Book Superheroes Based on Real People* (Mike Snyder, Angelo Torres, Colors: Carrie Strachan) MAD #288, July 1989 More Powerful than a Locomotive* (Sergio Aragonés) MAD #172, Jan 1975 A “Comics” Scene We’d Like to See* (Don “Duck” Edwing, George Woodbridge, Colors: Nathan Kane) MAD #103, June 1966 Everyday Pet Peeves of Transformers* (Jacob Lambert, Tom Bunk) MAD #480,… READ MORE
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