MADness #136: Jeezus, Yeezus!

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Here we go with another of the stumbling steps on the path that was my work for MAD Magazine. This week is another oddball sort of assignment that, frankly, I still have no idea what the joke was really supposed to be. It was written by Grant Reed, and appeared in MAD #13, June 2020.

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I guess it’s supposed to be a spoof of an ad for the “Trinity Broadcasting Network”, which is a large religious TV network, incorporating Kanye West‘s self-deified new name “Yeezus” and comparing the huckstering ways of the Kardashians and the church network, which solicits donations on its web site in cash, vehicles, or legacies. This piece can’t decide if it’s taking the mickey out of TBN or Kayne’s ego. Not my favorite piece for the magazine, and it was among the last of the truly original pieces I did for a long time.

Yes, we are approaching the end of MAD as we knew it. This issue had only 11 pages of all new material, and this was one of them.  Toon in next week for a fun multi-page piece Des and I did for the Al Jaffee Tribute Issue!