Kuper’s MAD Cover Word has reached the Spill that Peter Kuper‘s first MAD cover appears on the magazine’s Spring 2021 issue. Mr. Kuper, who has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2011, has been a MAD contributor for 26 years, writing and illustrating one of that magazine’s iconic features, Spy vs. Spy. Mr. Kuper tells the Spill that he
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. We are definitely in the Halloween mode in the new issue, and it all begins with Carter Goodrich’s cover; a scary clown looking remarkably similar to our current president peers out from the woods. For some reason my thoughts drifted back
Read moreWhen I think of MAD magazine I think of Alfred E. Neuman, of course, and Al Jaffee’s Fold-In, and Spy vs Spy. For the past twenty years the latter has been in the hands of Peter Kuper. His non-Spy work has been appearing more and more in The New Yorker these days, both the print version (an example above —
Read more