Today’s Monday MADness is a look at the pencils, inks, and print final of the splash page for MAD‘s parody of the film “Van Helsing”, written by Dick DeBartolo and published in MAD #445, Sept 2004. Clicky any to embiggen. Pencil roughs Inks READ MORE
MAD #3 cover art by Mark Fredrickson The Washington Post‘s online “Cartoon and Comics Culture” feature Comic Riffs by Michael Cavna posted an article on new MAD executive editor Bill Morrison and the the revamped MAD Magazine. Said article included an exclusive look at the cover of the next issue, due out in August. Art by Mark Fredrickson. READ MORE
Poor Rick Meyerowitz… his classic illustration for the Animal House movie poster might be the most parodied movie poster ever. MAD got in on the action with this spoof of that famous movie poster that also lampooned our dysfunctional government. This was part of MAD‘s “Dumbest People, Events, and Things of 2013” from MAD #525. Written by Jay Rath. My pencil rough and final pencil below (this never got inked… I stuck with pencil to get the Meyerowitz look and added the color digitally): READ MORE
Back in MAD #502 (Jan 2010) writer Jacob Lambert made fun of Hollywood’s sudden interest in movies based on board games with this 2 pager I illustrated entitled “Board Game Based Movies We’ll Soon Be Seeing”. Pencils and finals of each below: READ MORE
In subscribers mailboxes for a week or so already, on newsstands everywhere tomorrow and in comic book shops and digital (I think) this week! Cover– (Eric Joyner) ToC (Art by Tom Richmond) Lesser Known Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (Kit Lively, Ed Steckley) Embarrassing Celebrity Tattoos (Jeff Kruse, Gideon Kendall) Xander and Kam’s Sneaky Previews (Ian Boothby, Tom Richmond) Movie Scenes We’d Like to See (Sergio Aragonés, Colors: Carrie Strachan) Paul Garbanzo, Food Critic (Chris Stevens, Stephen Silver) The Wisenheim Museum (Jim Woodring) Potrzebie Comics Cover (Bill Morrison) Infant Terrible (Paula Sevenbergen & Allie Goertz, Paulina Ganucheau) The 27 Club (Luke McGarry) Boonies,… READ MORE
I was at the National Cartoonists Society’s annual Reuben Weekend in Philadelphia and sat in on a MAD magazine panel. During the panel, I was asked about how I got started with the magazine. I thought about it afterward and it was basically exactly 18 years ago, shortly after the 2000 Reuben Weekend, that I got my first assignment from MAD. It was a three pager entitled “MAD‘s Cable TV Viewing Odds” written by John Biederman. This job was what is called an “evergreen” feature… meaning it is not timely and can be run virtually at any time when they need a couple of pages… READ MORE
Every once and awhile MAD would chose to do a parody of some show that was a real head-scratcher… not the show but the fact that MAD decided it was parody worthy. This is an example from MAD #478, the June 2007 issue. “Dog the Bounty Hunter” was a reality show on A&E that, while it ran for eight seasons, was a far cry from a household name. I’m still not sure why it was picked for a MAD parody subject, but I thought the same thing of the two dozen HGTV shows we spoofed. Anyway, I drew the four page parody written by Dennis… READ MORE
This week’s Monday MADness is a look at the original pencil roughs for the Desmond Devlin penned parody of the film ‘Watchmen” that appeared in MAD #499, April 2009. You can see some art notes written in here and there… some were my telling the MAD guys what I intended to do and some was direction from them. READ MORE
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