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July 20th, 2012 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Yesterday the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced the 2012 nominees for Primetime Emmys, and in a spectacular victory for good, old-fashioned bribery, the MAD animated show on the Cartoon Network is nominated for Outstanding Short-Format Animated Program! I was stunned and confused by this, until I saw the episode that was nominated was one I did not work on . . . so then it made perfect sense. Congrats to Kevin Schinick, Mark Marek, Peter Giradi and all the people that have made MAD such a great and popular show! READ MORE
July 17th, 2012 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Not much to report, really. Comic-Con is always hectic but this year I saw and participated in less than usual because I was trying to get work done on the last of MAD‘s parody of “The Avengers”, with mixed results. I did not have my own booth this year like I did last, frankly because the Comic-Con people are not very good at informing their vendors how to do things like reserve their booth spaces for the next year.¬¨‚Ć First, I found out after the fact that had I paid my 2012 booth fee before the last day of last year’s Comic-Con, I would have… READ MORE
July 13th, 2012 | Posted in News
Slight change of my schedule at Comic-Con his weekend: Thurs, July 12th: 11am-3pm: National Cartoonists Society booth¬¨‚Ć(#1307/1309) 4-5pm: DC Entertainment booth (#1915)- Sorry free copies of MAD apparently didn’t make it. Free sketches, though! Fri, July 13th: 11am-1pm: National Cartoonists Society booth¬¨‚Ć(#1307/1309) Sat, July 14th: 5:30-7:30pm:¬¨‚ĆNational Cartoonists Society booth¬¨‚Ć(#1307/1309) 2-3pm: Mad About MAD… Often imitated but never duplicated, MAD is the country’s best-selling humor magazine! Join MAD magazine editor John Ficarra, art director Sam Viviano, artists Sergio Aragon?¬©s and Tom Richmond, and Spy vs. Spy artist Peter Kuper for a wise-cracking Q&A that’s bound to be, well, MAD. (Room¬¨‚Ć9) 4-5pm: Cartoon Art Museum Booth booth… READ MORE
July 12th, 2012 | Posted in MAD Magazine
I’m currently in San Diego for Comic-Con, and will post some reports from San Diego in the next few days. MAD just announced this upcoming book, which it is debuting at Comic-Con (I am not sure what that means . . . maybe they have an advanced copy or some other sneak peek . . . I’ll let you know). I am told I have a fair number of pieces in it: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:¬¨‚Ć Time Home Entertainment Inc. and¬¨‚Ć MAD Magazine Announce Totally MAD: 60 Years of Humor, Satire, Stupidity and Stupidity Foreword by Stephen Colbert and Eric Drysdale¬¨‚Ć Includes “The Soul of MAD,”A… READ MORE
July 10th, 2012 | Posted in News
Comic-con’s not my only speaking engagement this summer. I’ll be in the Bay and Sonoma areas of the San Francisco region Aug 3rd and 4th appearing at the Cartoon Art Musesum and Charles M. Schulz Museum respectively. Here’s the agenda/press releases: Fri, Aug 3rd: For Immediate Release: July 6, 2012 Contact: Andrew Farago, 415-227-8666, ext. 309 Images available on request The MAD Art of Caricature! with Tom Richmond Cartoon Art Museum Event: Friday, August 3, 2012, 7:00-9:00pm $5 general public, two-for-one admission for Cartoon Art Museum members San Francisco, CA: The Cartoon Art Museum welcomes celebrated MAD artist and 2012 Reuben Award Winner Tom Richmond… READ MORE
July 9th, 2012 | Posted in MAD Magazine
Hard to believe the San Diego Comic-Con is at the end of this week. I’ll be there again this year, but I will not have my own booth. That experiment did not go as well as I’d hoped last year. It was fun to have my own space, but the location wasn’t great and it took a lot of work to sell enough stuff just to pay the booth fee before there was any profit being made. This year I will be at the National Cartoonists Society booth (#1307/1309) much of the time, and will have posted, scheduled hours at the booth as to when… READ MORE
July 7th, 2012 | Posted in News
MAD associate art director Ryan Flanders alerts the known universe via tweet that the artwork I did above for the Spy Museum in Washington DC is now available as a T-shirt, and you can order it online for $18.00 (cheap!): Casino Royalfred Stylish, yet embarrassing. Perfect for any fans of MAD, spies, or overpriced novelty apparel. I’ve ordered three. READ MORE
June 9th, 2012 | Posted in News
I’ve blogged before about the awesome Team Cul de Sac book that is raising money for the Michael J. Fox Foundation to fight Parkinson’s Disease. The book itself is incredible, jam-parked with art from well over 100 top cartoonists with their take on Petey, Alice and the Cul de Sac world in honor of Richard Thompson and in support of the fight against Parkinson’s. If you have not ordered it yet what are you waiting for?!? The related effort to raise further money is a massive auction of the original art from the book, which ends Sunday, June 10th at 11 pm EDT!!!! This is… READ MORE
