I haven’t done a whole lot of (obviously) political cartoons over the years. A Supreme Court drawing in the very early 1980s and a Bill Clinton drawing in the early 1990s come readily to mind. Ross Perot, the two-time Presidential candidate who died today at age 89, was a humor magnet. Like so many other of the magazine’s cartoonists (
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MAD’s New Yorker Cartoonists; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; A Daily Shouts By Julia Wertz
Mad’s New Yorker Cartoonists With MAD sadly all but expiring later this summer I thought it would be a good time to begin building a list of New Yorker cartoonists who joined MAD’s “usual gang of idiots.” So here we go, in no particular order (unless the list grows long). ****New Yorker folks out there who I’ve missed, please write
Read moreThe American Bystander’s Michael Gerber Wants To Save MAD Magazine; Bob Eckstein’s NY Daily News MAD Op-Ed; MAD Cartoonists Vs. New Yorker Cartoonists; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Gil Roth Interviews Karl Stevens; 5 Questions: Rich Sparks
The American Bystander’s Michael Gerber, Wants To Save MAD Magazine Michael Gerber, the man behind the curtain at American Bystander, is proposing to rescue MAD Magazine. Below: two Tweets from Mr. Gerber sent out yesterday: The New York Times called The American Bystander “…an essential read for comedy nerds”. Anyone who loves comic art and writing will cheer
Read moreWhat — Me Done? The End Of MAD As We Know It
Surging through social media is the sad and unpleasant news from the publisher of MAD Magazine that there are but two (mostly) new issues left before the magazine begins recycling previously published work. Tweets from MAD editor Allie Goertz: There’s been an outpour of kindness surrounding the rumor that @MADmagazine is ceasing publication, but MAD is not quite done. After
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