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MAD #507

 The new MAD is out and, while I haven't seen it yet, apparently the latest issue features another contribution by the decidedly disturbed team of Lively & Nickel.

We have a DORK SIDE strip in the Strip Club section. Thankfully we aren't in the MAD 20 as one of the 20 dumbest events or people of 2010 (although I think we're in the top 100!) I'll post our strip once the issue goes off sale.

Added 12/25: Got my contributor's copies. The issue looks awesome!

MAD #506 -- updated

The new issue of MAD (#507) ships December 22, so I think I'm safe posting my contribution to issue 506, which ran in the Fundalini pages.

Enjoy!

MAD #506

The latest issue off MAD is out, sporting a fun GLEE cover by the ever-excellent Mark Fredrickson and a great GLEE parody inside by Tom Richmond and Old School UGOI Arnie Kogen.

I have a cartoon in the Fundalini pages (which I'll post after the issue goes off sale).

This issue also features art from several legendary MAD men: Mort Drucker, Angelo Torres, Paul Coker, and Sam Viviano. More from these giants, I say! Unless of course, it means less of my stuff in MAD -- in which case, forget these guys! They had their time in the sun!


(NOTE: edited 10/22/10 to add Mark's name as cover artist )

MAD About Mort

Here's an awesome photo of my all-time favorite MAD artist, Mort Drucker, signing a copy of MAD #504 featuring my cover idea! The only thing that could make this any cooler is if Jack Davis (also my all-time favorite MAD artist) signed it as well!

Thanks to Kit Lively for alerting me to this amazing pic and to Ryan Flanders for posting it!




THIS JUST IN! Here's another, even MORE amazing photo!

LITTLE OTTO -- first new strips in 18 years!

I've been running my old (like really old -- created in 1991-1992) strip on GoComics.

Rather than recycling the strip indefinitely, I decided to do a couple of new LITTLE OTTO strips each week.

New episodes started on 9-20, but I particularly liked bringing Otto, Madison and Karen into the 21st century with this Lady Gaga joke on 9-28.

Commets, we get comments...

My blog gets a lot of comments. The majority or which, alas, are spam.

I usually just delete them, but this particular comment caught my eye and struck my funny bone, especially the first line:

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In fact, the entire thing reads like some sort of odd, stream-of-consciousness poetry. Or something from a recent stroke victim.

p.s. For everyone's safety, I deactivated the link to sex with donkeys. You're welcome.

MAD #505 - Dork Side

MAD #505 has been out for a few weeks, so I think it's safe to post the cartoon Kit Lively and I did for the issue.

Hopefully seeing this toon will compel those who haven't yet picked up the issue to move heaven and earth to get a copy. Or at least drive down to their local supermarket or Wal-Mart.

Happy September!

Apparently the GoComics blog site links to this page (among other creator's blogs), so I guess I should start posting more.

Right?

Nawwwww.

Actually, here's something worth mentioning: I just completed a longer interview with Michael Jantze for John Read's STAY TOONED magazine. Michael gave some great answers. I especially liked his thoughts about the late Jay Kennedy, my former editor at King when I worked on TRIPLE TAKE.

More later....