Here’s a look at the pencil roughs for MAD‘s parody of “The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies” that was at exclusive part of the special Loot Crate issue. If it seems my roughs get progressively rougher as the parody goes along, that is not your imagination, that is the deadline looming: READ MORE
In comic book shops, on the iPad and in subscribers mailboxes now, on news stands everywhere tomorrow: Cover (Mark Fredrickson) Letters and Tomatoes (Ed.) The Fundalini Pages (Evan Waite, Bob Staake, Jeff Kruse, Anton Emdin, Jason Yungbluth, Alison Grambs, C.F. Payne, Tim Latterner, Adam Koford, Kenny Keil, John Martz, P.C. Vey, Kevin Pope, Samuel Ferri, Chris Houghton) Donald Trump: Blowhard with a Vengeance (Writer: Desmond Devlin) The Scavengers: Age of Moron (Desmond Devlin, Tom Richmond) Are You a Foodie… or Not? (Kenny Keil, Paul Coker) Sympathy Cards We Wish We Could Buy (Writer: Teresa Burns Parkhurst, Artists: Leonardo Rodriguez, Rick Tulka, Emily Flake) Ben Carson:… READ MORE
Believe it or not the iPad version of MAD #535 is already out. Above is Mark Fredrickson‘s terrific cover art. This cover got a big laugh at the MAD panel at San Diego Comic-Con, where they showed it for the audience. Speaking of San Diego Comic-Con, when I was there last month I did a couple of live demos over at the Wacom booth on their fancy new 27QHD Touch. I took the opportunity to work on an actual piece for the upcoming issue of MAD. Of course I can’t actually say what I was working on yet, but… Incidentally the 27QHD is really awesome.… READ MORE
From MAD #447, waaaaay back in November 2004, here’s a look at the rough sketches and final art from MAD‘s parody of “The Bernie Mac Show”, written by David Shayne… READ MORE
Some years back MAD started a new line of hardcover books entitled “MAD‘s Greatest Artists”, which now has volumes for Sergio Aragonés, Dave Berg and Mort Drucker… no doubt with more on the way. I was remiss in pointing out back in early May that the first of MAD‘s corresponding new “MAD‘s Greatest Writers” line of books is finally out and available for purchase. The first subject being the great Frank Jacobs. Frank is the most prolific MAD writer ever, with nearly 600 articles published in the magazine. He’s of course best known for his song parodies (“Sing to the Tune of…”), which makes the… READ MORE
This is the closest I’ve gotten to doing an actual MAD cover… the cover of a special Superman issue from 2013. Here are the roughs and some close ups of the city painting that took forever. READ MORE
In honor of the latest Pixar movie’s release, here’s a look at the story behind “Toyota Story”, which started out as a single image for the MAD website during the Toyota “unexplained acceleration” lawsuit and investigation, and ended up being used as part of a parody in MAD #504 back in 2010. The initial job was described to me as a fake poster for a “Toy Story” spin-off film, done in a typical Pixar look, with the gag being the toys behind the wheel of a runaway Toyota and several of them being run over and squashed. Naturally the effectiveness of the parody would rely… READ MORE
I know I’ve told this story before, but if someone was to ask me “what was the first piece you ever did for MAD?”, there are actually three answers. The first piece of art I ever had printed in MAD was a two pager called “Gadgets to Make Your Home Theater REALLY like the Movies” in MAD #399, October 2000. The first piece of art I ever did for them that they used for any reason was something called “Presidential Survivor”, and was used on the MAD website (back when they were first doing original content on it) in August 2000. My first official paid… READ MORE
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