Thanks to all our awesome backers for putting us over the top with our 3rd stretch goal! Des and I will now do an 11th parody in the book! We can’t wait to get this book done and out to you! READ MORE
Well, we didn’t hit any of them. We are actually VERY GRATEFUL to the 400 people who have backed our book project! THANK YOU BACKERS!! We are also very close to our third stretch goal, where Des and I add an 11th movie parody to the book! This one benefits everybody, because you get more guffaws for your greenbacks! As of this writing we are only a little over $1000 away from that goal! If you are still on the fence about backing CLAPTRAP, get off the furshlugginer fence, already!!! READ MORE
Des and I are guests on the latest Chuckload of Comics podcast with host Chuck Lindsey! Watch it here!: READ MORE
Desmond and I were guests on the Star Wars in Character podcast posted yesterday. We had a great chat with hosts Tim and Chris about our “Rise of Skywalker” spoof, MAD Magazine parodies in general, and our CLAPTRAP book project. Have a listen here! READ MORE
All crowdfunding campaigns have different levels of “perks” representing different levels of backer support. Our CLAPTRAP book IndieGoGo campaign has several, like the “Putz” ($12- you get a PDF of the entire Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker parody), the “Clod” ($25- you get a copy of the hardcover book), etc. BTW you get all the stuff from lower perk tiers when you contribute at a higher one, so the higher you go the more stuff you get! One of the higher tiers is the “Schmendrick”. If you are a Schmendrick (or higher) you get all the stuff from lower perk tiers plus you’ll be getting… READ MORE
We are just a little over three weeks from the end of our CLAPTRAP IndieGoGo campaign, so Des and I have decided to stop being coy about which movies are going to be spoofed in the book. Since new movies are not really a thing right now, we are going to do 100% classic/cult hits that MAD never did. You already know about Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and after yesterday, The Shawshank Redemption. Well here are four more we’ll be spoofing: Goodfellas, The Big Lebowski, Blade Runner and Unforgiven! That’s six of our ten target movies revealed! The remaining four consist of the… READ MORE
This is Des and my Star Wars splash page from our spoof of “The Rise of Skywalker”, but that’s not the Star Wars splash page I’m talking about. We are guests on the “Star Wars Splash Page” podcast episode released today. I am not making this up. It’s really called “Star Wars Splash Page”, and it’s a podcast that reviews contemporary Star Wars comics, interviews creators and otherwise covers the Star Wars universe in the world of comics. Des and I had a great time chatting with hosts Matt and Jeff about MAD and CLAPTRAP. It’s a fun listen. READ MORE
Here’s a sneak peek at another of the parodies that will appear in Des Devlin and my upcoming book CLAPTRAP… “The Shawshank Redemption!” The stats: Oscar Nominations: 7 Golden Globe Nominations: 2 Screen Actors Guild Award Nominations: 2 Director’s Guild of America Nominations: 1 Writer’s Guild of America Nominations: 1 MAD Magazine spoofs: 0 This movie never got a parody in MAD, likely because it was a box office disappointment back in 1994 and was up against “Pulp Fiction” and “Forrest Gump,” both of which DID get the MAD treatment. Since then, “Shawshank” has become a cult classic that constantly appears in “The Best Movies… READ MORE
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