Monday MADness
March 25th, 2019 | Posted in Monday MADness
I had a nice surprise this weekend at C2E2 when the great Svengoolie (aka Rich Koz) dropped by with his crew. He told me how much he loved his appearance in MAD #4. I told him when I am visited by stars I have drawn in MAD is am usually ducking punches rather than praise, so this was a nice change. We did a little segment which may of may not make an upcoming episode of the show… Sven even signed a copy of MAD #4 and one of the pages of original art I happened to have with me. Thanks Rich, Jim and the… READ MORE
March 18th, 2019 | Posted in Monday MADness
I had a lot of fun at Emerald City Comic Con this past weekend, especially doing MAD variant sketch covers. Here’s a couple from the show. I adjusted the “Aquaman” image a bit to brighten it up from the version I posted over the weekend. READ MORE
March 11th, 2019 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Today’s Monday MADness is from way back in Dec 2002- one of my favorite panels from MAD #424’s “Harry Plodder and the Lamest of Sequels” written by Desmond Devlin. READ MORE
March 4th, 2019 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Here’s a peek at another favorite panel from MAD #6’s “Merry Poopins Goes to the White House” written by Ian Boothby. This one is from page 5. Why is it one of my favorites? Uh….. READ MORE
February 26th, 2019 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Whoops, this was supposed to post next Monday! Oh well. Here’s my favorite panel from “Merry Poopins Visits the White House” from MAD #6. In case you missed them, here’s the splash and a panel from page 3. I liked this panel just because it’s the better of the caricatures I did of Emily Blunt and Lin Manuel Miranda. The filmmakers went out of their way to try and make Emily Blunt look a lot less like Emily Blunt in this film, so capturing her was difficult. Ordinarily she has these sleeply-lidded eyes with a pronounced dark bulge under them, and a kind of protruding… READ MORE
February 25th, 2019 | Posted in General
I shared a peek at the “Merry Poopins goes to the White House” splash page from MAD #6 last week, but that feature I did with writer Ian Boothby was six page long. So for the next few weeks I’m going to post a favorite panel from each page. This was my fav from page 3, mostly because of the background gag. I drew in a “David” statue with Trump‘s head, with a cell phone of course, and with even more enormous hands that the real David has. I think that is a gag but I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump hadn’t commissioned something like… READ MORE
February 18th, 2019 | Posted in MAD Magazine
In subscribers mailboxes for a week or so already, on newsstands everywhere tomorrow and in comic book shops and digital (maybe… your guess is as good as mine) this week! Cover (M. Wartella) Merry Poopins Goes to the White House (Ian Boothby, Tom Richmond) Spy vs. Spy (Peter Kuper) Let’s have Fun with a Hospital Visit! (Teresa Burns Parkhurst) Frosty the Snowperson (Jon Adams) If You See Something, Say Something (Stan Sinberg) The Wisenheim Museum (William Wray) Modern Steps to Make It Official (Casey Boyd & Allie Goertz, A Person) A MAD Look at the Future (Sergio Aragonés, Colors: Tom Luth) The Potrzebie of Love… READ MORE
February 11th, 2019 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Comedian Tom Green is sort of back in the public eye right now being a contestant on “Celebrity Big Brother”. Coincidentally he appeared in my favorite panel from my very first MAD job… the first assigned to me that is. It was actually the sixth feature I drew that saw print in the magazine. MAD would sometimes give a kind of “test” assignment to new artists. You got paid for it and everything, but the subject was usually an “evergreen” piece, meaning it could be run anytime as it was not of a timely nature (thus “evergreen”). This was from “MAD‘s Cable TV Viewing Odds”… READ MORE
