Monday MADness
January 28th, 2019 | Posted in Monday MADness
I few weeks ago I started occasionally sharing favorite panels from the art I did for each of my 2018 parodies in the “new” MAD Magazine. I figure this would make a good ongoing series, especially for my usual “Monday MADness” posts. I might as well start from the very beginning, so here is one of my favorite panels from my very first ‘continuity’ (the MAD staff term for a movie or TV parody), the parody of “Malcolm in the Middle” from MAD #403, March 2001, written by Desmond Devlin So, why this panel? Honestly this was a choosing of lesser evils. I did this… READ MORE
December 31st, 2018 | Posted in Monday MADness
Today’s Monday MADness is a look at the pencil roughs, final pencils ( of the splash at least… a rare occurrence as I seldom scan my final pencils in before inking) and the colored final art from the Dick DeBartolo penned parody of “Extreme Home Makeover” from issue #460, December 2005. Yikes, I used to over-paint my work. Everyone looks so shiny! Clicky any to Embiggen… READ MORE
December 24th, 2018 | Posted in Monday MADness
Considering I sort of did three parodies in the first issue of the New MAD, I guess I need to choose three favorite panels. The one above is one of my favorites from the “Star Bores: Half Assed Jedi” parody, written by Desmond Devlin. The two below were some of the more fun ones from “Starchie: Reconstituted” and “Riverdull”, both written by Ian Boothby. READ MORE
December 17th, 2018 | Posted in Monday MADness
Here’s a look at a very early piece of mine from MAD #412, Dec 2001, written by Desmond Devlin. The original digital files from this one are long gone to that great hard drive in the sky. Clicky to embiggen image. READ MORE
December 10th, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Here’s a sneak peek at one of the panels from my piece in the next issue of MAD, dues out Wednesday! READ MORE
December 3rd, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Here we go again with another ridiculous choice for one of the panels that was my favorite to draw in a given parody, this time from MAD #2’s “Xander and Kam’s Sneaky Previews” written by Ian Boothby. Anyday I get to draw Harrison Ford‘s crooked nose is a good day. Also ALF! READ MORE
November 26th, 2018 | Posted in Monday MADness
Back in MAD #520 (April 2013) I did the art for this three page parody mash up of the TV reality show “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” and the long-running conic strip “The Family Circus”. I had a particularly fun time doing this one because cartoonist Jeff Keane, who took over the strip from his dad Bil Keane several years before Bil’s passing in 2011, is a good friend of mine. In fact, when MAD assigned this to me, I called Jeff up and didn’t tell him this was coming as I wanted to surprise him, but during our conversation asked him “So, what kind… READ MORE
November 19th, 2018 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Here’s another episode of “My Favorite Panel from MAD #…” where I post, you guessed it, my favorite panel from the job I did for that issue. I don’t count the big splash pages because they’d probably always get the nod. This one was from the parody of “Ready Player One” from MAD #3, written by Desmond Devlin. Des suggested the addition of “Leroy Jenkins”. I had decided the only way to parody a movie that is full of MAD-like pop-culture cameos already was to include characters that no one in a million years would actually choose as their avatar. Thus you have Strawberry Shortcake, a… READ MORE
