The Huffington Post’s Bryan Young talks to Weird Al and MAD Magazine’s John Ficarra about Weird Al’s Guest Editor edition. BY: Al, how did this work on your part? I’m sure your schedule is already pretty busy, I mean you just got done shooting all kinds of music videos for everything and about to go […]
The next issue of MAD Magazine will be edited by Weird Al. Last May the National Cartoonists Society honored the Grammy award winning musician with the The A.C.E. Award (Amateur Cartoonist Extraordinaire), an award given to someone who had aspirations of being a cartoonist but made it big in another field. A fan of MAD […]
Paste Magazine interviews the legendary Al Jaffee about his iconic Fold-Ins that appear in MAG Magazine. The way it works is pretty much the way all freelance people work. The Richard Nixon Fold-In is the second fold-in. The first one was with Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher and Richard Burton. But the second one was […]
Entertainment Weekly has a fantastic cartoon by Sergio Aragones to guide readers through MAD Magazine’s history. It so detailed, they had to provide the digital equivalent of a magnifying glass. Fantastic stuff. Be sure to check out out.
During the Society of Illustrators’s Celebrating Kurtzman Drew Friedman, Robert Grossman, Al Jaffee, and Arnold Roth discussed the life and work of Harvey Kurtzman. Audio of the panel is now online. Via Tom Richmond
The AV Club has posted an extenstive interview with the legendary Jack Davis. AVC: What artists were important to you growing up? JD: Growing up, of course, Walt Disney. Donald Duck?the big feet?and Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs. And Harold Foster, who drew Prince Valiant, and he also drew Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs? bit. […]
CNN profiles the career of MAD Magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee. Today Jaffee, who will be 91 in March, is known for his own contraptions, many designed during his long relationship with Mad magazine. There’s the Mad Fold-in, the magazine’s inside back page, which cleverly turns one Jaffee work into another by folding one portion over […]
This last weekend was a rare event at the Savannah College of Art and Design. SCAD brought together several of the cartoonists from MAD Magazine: Jack Davis, Al Jaffee, Paul Coker, Jr., Nick Meglin, ?Duck? Edwing, Sergio Aragones, Sam Viviano and Tom Richmond. The AP did a story covering the event with the angle of […]
Ron Howard is rumored to be direct a live-action movie adaptation of MAD Magazine’s Spy vs. Spy. According to Deadline.com reports that the “film will be a physical and highly visual action comedy with two spies going mano a mano in ruthless fashion.” No date has given. Other names attached to the project include David […]
File this one in the must-have category: The MAD Fold-In Collection: 1964-2010 Here’s Amazon’s description. Al Jaffee’s ‘Fold-Ins’, which have graced the back page of “MAD Magazine” since 1964, have become an icon of American humour, issue after issue, year after year, each fold-in requires the reader to simply fold tab A to tab B […]
The Dakota County Tribune Business Weekly has great profile of MAD Magagzine cartoonist Tom Richmond and how he became a MAD Magazine regular, his caricature business and his obsession with Batman. Richmond broke in after “relentlessly” sending his work to the magazine’s art department and meeting twice with the art director in the summer of […]