This week’s Monday MADness is a look at the pencil roughs and final art for MAD’s parody of 2008’s “Iron Man” from MAD #492, Aug 2008, written by Desmond Devlin: READ MORE
Here’s a rare (because I almost never scan my finished pencils before I ink them) look at all four stages of a MAD job, this from MAD‘s parody of “Brokeback Mountain” written by Arnie Kogen, MAD #465, May 2006… Initial roughs: Finished pencils: Finished Inks: Finished color: READ MORE
Sticking to the Holiday theme this week, here’s a look at the only “holiday” orientated piece I ever did for MAD: “MAD’s Inside Scoop On This Year’s Stupidest Holiday Movies” Written by Desmond Devlin and Scott Maiko from MAD #459, November 2005. READ MORE
Continuing a look back at some of my art from “The MAD 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things” feature over the years, here’s a piece from MAD #473, Jan 2007. READ MORE
Next month MAD #537 will feature the annual “MAD 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things” of the year (and yes, I did the art on one of them this year). The next several installments of Monday MADness will take a look back at some of the MAD 20 pieces I have done over the years. This one is from MAD #497, Jan 2009. It’s a commentary on the government bailout of the big banks after the mortgage implosion crisis. The concept was to spoof of “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” but with Ben Bernanke, Henry Paulson, Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank (with cameos by G.W.… READ MORE
I know I’ve posted the artwork to this piece, the first thing I ever had published in MAD, many times. However this issue (#399) was finally just released in digital format via the MAD iPad app, so I can show it to you with all of Dick DeBartolo‘s hilarious jokes in place as it appeared in print back in Oct 2000. MAD is slowly building up it’s digital back issue library in their app. Print subscribers get the digital version of the latest issues FREE, and can purchase back issues for as little as $.99 when they are on sale. The app is free and… READ MORE
Back in MAD #476, April of 2007 I did the art for a parody of the TV show “Entourage”, written by Arnie Kogen. The opening splash called for one of the show’s famous party scenes where you could always count on a couple of gratuitous celebrity cameos. Here is the art progression from (very) rough sketch, final pencil, and inks leading up to the finished art above (clicky any to embiggen…): The rough sketch… The final pencil… Finished inks… READ MORE
In last week’s Monday MADness I shared a piece from MAD #471, November 2006 called “When Video Games Become Religious”. I actually had two pieces in that issue… the second being the above rare comic-strip format piece in the Fundalini Pages called “One Afternoon on Pacific Coast Highway”, commenting on Mel Gibson‘s then-recent drunken anti-Semitic rant after a traffic stop. Original pencil rough below. READ MORE
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