In an article for Wired.com, The Hero Initiative's president Jim McLauchlin wrote up a piece announcing the retirement of legendary Mad Magazine artist Jim Davis at the young age of 90 Davis is retiring not because he can't draw anymore, he just can't draw to his own standards Besides Mad, Davis worked on movie posters[...]
By OlumideMad Magazine artist and writer Al Jaffee is celebrating a milestone It has now been fifty years since the first appearance of his fold-in was featured in issue 86 of Mad Magazine in 1964.The Scott Eder Gallery in Brooklyn recently held an opening reception featuring some of Jaffee’s original fold-in work Scores of[...]
Fans of MAD Magazine could win a new prize package from DC Entertainment just for tweeting which characters they think Alfred E Newman should portray next Five prize packages will be given away and they include:MAD Magazine #529
Alfred E Neuman "What--me worry?" portrait
MAD About Super Heroes hardcover
MAD poker card deck
MAD baseball capTo enter follow @DCComics on Twitter and Tweet[...]
AP reported this evening that Al Feldstein, the legendary 28-year editor of Mad Magazine passed away in Montana at the age of 88 on Tuesday Feldstein assumed leadership of Mad in 1956 following in the footsteps of Harvey Kurtzman, and during his tenure mainstays of Mad's burgeoning popularity included Spy vs Spy, Snappy Answers to[...]
By Joshua Stone During my years of attending comic conventions, such as San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) and Wondercon, I have come to decide that any panel I have to wait in long lines for are not worth going into, I'll catch them on Youtube later. The good news for me though is that these cons […]
Its an old story that ran in Mad Magazine #20 by Harvey Kurtzman and Wally Wood Chris Samnee posted it on his blog and it seemed like a good thing to share.I think I can run this without the Dan Slott spoiler warnings...One of the fun things as[...]
But there's one group of folk that haven't been mentioned.And that's the guys who create MAD Magazine, bought by DC Comics and moved into their New York offices.Back when the DC administrative and digital staff moved to Burbank, but the editorial, sales and publishing staff remained in New York, MAD blogger Tom Richmond wrote,
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Zainab Williams writes for Bleeding Cool:
While the only comics I grew up with were Mad magazine, Calvin and Hobbes, the toilet paper commonly known as the Sunday comics, and--here I pause to take cover from tomatoes, jeers, and stray bullets--Archie Comics, I lived on horror I squealed with innocent glee when I heard the creak[...]
From paying 100% of retailers' Vertigo advertising, the regular dollar introductory line and making both DC's All Ages line and MAD Magazine returnable if retailers order certain amounts from October...And we did enjoy Bob Wayne's description of the dollar V For Vendetta #1 as simply "drawn by David Lloyd"...DC's Bob Wayne made a number[...]
DC Comics are trying to increase the amount of copies MAD Magazine stocked by comic stores To that effect they are going to overship the next four issues to comic store retailers, encouraging them to see how much it could sell on the shelves.Issue #516 will be Spider-Man themed, with a Spider Alfred E Neuman[...]
Dynamic Forces is to produce toasters featuring Warner Bros imagery, including the likes of Watchmen, The Wizard of Oz, A Christmas Story, Where the Wild Things Are, The Goonies, Gremlins, Little Shop of Horrors, Watchmen, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Mad Magazine, Friends and the like.The toasters will burn related imagery onto[...]
