This was taken Friday night at the opening of Mort Kunstler's "Remembering the Battle of Gettysburg" exhibit at the Reading (PA) Public Museum.
He was kind enough to sign my copy of the JAWS parody cover he did for MAD, and pose with me holding the cover I did for MAD. The show runs through July 28.
(http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm131/ChrisWhiteStudio/MortK_Chris_MAD_sm_zps09e6afe7.jpg)
MAD magazine kicks butt! R.I.P. William Gaines.
Looks great Chris!Of all the Mad mags The Jaws one is the only one I have.Now I need to find YOURS!
I love Mad Magazine, have several isues in the attic, and 3 or 4 paperbacks in our bookcase. Mort drucker was my favorite artist. If it didn't have a Drucker entry in there somewhere, I wouldn't get it.
My fave has to be the "Planet That Went Ape" parodies of the first 4 films.
ChrisW- That is the picture of the year- in my book! Wow! You are the MAD King! What an honor to see the both of you & your artwork!
thanks Charp, it was very cool getting the picture with him.
Here are scans of four of my earliest Mad magazines, including the back covers for two of them:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/23-05-201182225PM.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/09-09-201264809PM.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/09-09-201264813PM.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/09-09-201264817PM.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/09-09-201264820PM.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/09-09-201264823PM.jpg)
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Here's Mad's 1964 tribute to the Aurora kits...
(http://wizbangpop.com/images/2010/03/1964MadMagazine.jpg)
Hep - the work Jack Davis did on two of your covers just blows my mind! He fills every square inch with hilarious caricature...
An all-time great! Jack is perhaps my very favourite comic strip artist.
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Quote from: Hepcat on May 05, 2013, 06:00:02 PM
Here are scans of four of my earliest Mad magazines, including the back covers for two of them:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/23-05-201182225PM.jpg)
The original painting for this was on exhibit a couple floors above my office last year or year before.
Here are scans of a few more of my early Mad magazines:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/09-09-201264826PM.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/09-09-201264830PM.jpg)
Note from the back cover that Mad started doing product parodies over ten years before Topps launched its Wacky Packs series of cards/stickers:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/09-09-201264833PM.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/16-09-2012101440PM.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/16-09-2012101454PM.jpg)
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Kelly Freas was a multi-talented addition to William Gaine's stable! I always marvel at his painterly approach - and he was able to mimic different styles in his paintings, the better to "sell" the parody.
Here are scans of a few more of my Mad magazines:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/20-10-201181120PM.jpg) (http://media.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/20-10-201181120PM.jpg.html)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/16-12-2011121003AM.jpg) (http://media.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/16-12-2011121003AM.jpg.html)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/16-12-2011121007AM.jpg) (http://media.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/16-12-2011121007AM.jpg.html)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/19-05-201363638PM_zps3f7d9fe2.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/19-05-201363638PM_zps3f7d9fe2.jpg.html)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/19-05-201363644PM_zps33128f0e.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/19-05-201363644PM_zps33128f0e.jpg.html)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/19-05-201363647PM_zps655251af.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/19-05-201363647PM_zps655251af.jpg.html)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/19-05-201363651PM_zps0aade0f5.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/19-05-201363651PM_zps0aade0f5.jpg.html)
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I love Mad .. alas, the first thing that I want to do is to fold the back cover .. they sort of frown on this at comic shows for some reason .. Go Figure!
;D
Here then are scans front and back of three more of my Mad magazines:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/27-05-201374224PM_zps9a59c15c.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/27-05-201374224PM_zps9a59c15c.jpg.html)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/27-05-201374229PM_zps666bd9a0.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/27-05-201374229PM_zps666bd9a0.jpg.html)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/27-05-201374234PM_zpsb07676b6.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/27-05-201374234PM_zpsb07676b6.jpg.html)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/27-05-201374239PM_zps39be639a.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/27-05-201374239PM_zps39be639a.jpg.html)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/27-05-201374245PM_zps11d8d86f.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/27-05-201374245PM_zps11d8d86f.jpg.html)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/27-05-201374251PM_zpsc991a079.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/27-05-201374251PM_zpsc991a079.jpg.html)
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Here are scans front and back of three more of my Mad magazines:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/14-07-201330845PM_zps8b6040de.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/14-07-201330845PM_zps8b6040de.jpg.html)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/14-07-201330849PM_zps62c40b08.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/14-07-201330849PM_zps62c40b08.jpg.html)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/16-12-2011121013AM.jpg) (http://media.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/16-12-2011121013AM.jpg.html)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/14-07-201380801PM_zps05fb89c8.jpg) (http://media.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/14-07-201380801PM_zps05fb89c8.jpg.html)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/14-07-201330905PM_zps1e461f54.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/14-07-201330905PM_zps1e461f54.jpg.html)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/14-07-201330909PM_zpse37a6ea6.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/14-07-201330909PM_zpse37a6ea6.jpg.html)
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All great stuff! I have the book "MAD Cover to Cover" so it's a special treat to see the back covers with the parody ads. I never knew that they did the parody ads so consistently back then. By the time I started reading MAD regularly in the 60s and 70s the back cover could be a parody, straight humor strip, or even social commentary.
Here then are front and back scans of three more of my Mad magazines:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/14-07-201330912PM_zps79ee844a.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/14-07-201330912PM_zps79ee844a.jpg.html)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/14-07-201330915PM_zps56a82464.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/14-07-201330915PM_zps56a82464.jpg.html)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/14-07-201330918PM_zpsec53e8d9.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/14-07-201330918PM_zpsec53e8d9.jpg.html)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/14-07-201330922PM_zps054f7848.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/14-07-201330922PM_zps054f7848.jpg.html)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/28-07-201370051PM_zps90d590c5.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/Comics001/28-07-201370051PM_zps90d590c5.jpg.html)
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(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/28-07-201370055PM_zps3a903d91.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/Comics001/28-07-201370055PM_zps3a903d91.jpg.html)
Here are a couple of pictures of my Aurora Alfred E. Neuman model kit:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/MADKit_zps37dee871.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/General%20Album%203/MADKit_zps37dee871.jpg.html)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/MADKit2_zps6e2c2cd2.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/General%20Album%203/MADKit2_zps6e2c2cd2.jpg.html)
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I love that kit! It's the only kit I could do justice to when I was a kid.
Here are two of the re-pro kits that i built for myself and my friend who owns the local music shop here on Long Island...
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b352/Gasport2000/AlfredENeumanmodels7-11-10004.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/Gasport2000/media/AlfredENeumanmodels7-11-10004.jpg.html)
Great job, love 'em!
I have an original in a box, but also picked up the Revell repop when it was released. Seeing these is a nice reminder that I actually intended to build the repop!!!
I don't think I ever saw the repop. What year was that?
Here are a few pictures of my Parker Bros. Mad Magazine board game from 1979:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/MADGame_zpsfad15de9.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/General%20Album%203/MADGame_zpsfad15de9.jpg.html)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/MADGame2_zpse341cf2e.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/General%20Album%203/MADGame2_zpse341cf2e.jpg.html)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/MADGame3_zps57acc0bc.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/General%20Album%203/MADGame3_zps57acc0bc.jpg.html)
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Here are front and back scans of three more of my Mad magazines:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/22-08-201380041PM_zps76824832.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/Comics001/22-08-201380041PM_zps76824832.jpg.html)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/22-08-201380048PM_zps615e5a42.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/Comics001/22-08-201380048PM_zps615e5a42.jpg.html)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/20-10-201181132PM.jpg) (http://media.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/20-10-201181132PM.jpg.html)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/26-08-201380932PM_zps5abaaab6.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/Comics001/26-08-201380932PM_zps5abaaab6.jpg.html)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/22-08-201380100PM_zps85325c5b.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/Comics001/22-08-201380100PM_zps85325c5b.jpg.html)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/22-08-201380055PM_zpsa0fb639d.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/Comics/Comics001/22-08-201380055PM_zpsa0fb639d.jpg.html)
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Fleer issued a marvelous set of Mad Stickers in 1983. Here are scans of some of mine:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/19-08-201385643PM_zps7c9957fd.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/General%20Album%203/19-08-201385643PM_zps7c9957fd.jpg.html)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/19-08-201385646PM_zps1b9f5786.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/General%20Album%203/19-08-201385646PM_zps1b9f5786.jpg.html)
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My favorite MAD covers are the ones done by Kelly Freas. But I think that my favorite Freas MAD cover wasn't for the magazine, it is the one he did for the paperback "Son of MAD". (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-c_KtruATuyo/UiRgljbVwOI/AAAAAAAAnUw/lSUC9AXCBzY/s1600/Son+of+Mad+59+Signet.jpg) (http://[url=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NTW1XWLhJDI/UibYqSf8niI/AAAAAAAAnV4/_xWwdASvdZc/s1600/sonofmad2.jpg%5Dhttp://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NTW1XWLhJDI/UibYqSf8niI/AAAAAAAAnV4/_xWwdASvdZc/s1600/sonofmad2.jpg%5B/url%5D) The book made an appearance in the movie "A Hard Day's Night".
That's a fabulous cover! I like it better than most of the magazine covers.
Here are scans of some of the cards from my Spy Vs. Spy card set that Lime Rock issued in 1993:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/19-08-201385649PM_zpsf191327a.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/General%20Album%203/19-08-201385649PM_zpsf191327a.jpg.html)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/19-08-201385652PM_zps8de4192a.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/Balticprince/media/General%20Album%203/19-08-201385652PM_zps8de4192a.jpg.html)
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Damn. Way to go Chris!
I teach a history of illustration class, and Kunstler is one of the many artists I spend some time on...
Nice pics, Hepcat. I still have a number of those issues (originally purchased by my older brother).
Kelly Freas did some amazing work for Mad.
And of course those early Jack Davis covers are fantastic.
I also fondly remember the early John Severin covers for Cracked (the one with the giant mouth, and the one with a gigantic egg cracking and spilling its contents onto an urban scene). Something about the Bosch-like complexity of those images...
Here are scans of three more of my Mad magazines:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/026_zps62bad863.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/027_zps6c714f76.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/028_zpsa0985fe7.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/029_zpsd0cec2dd.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/030_zps3b1b884f.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/031_zps05043bca.jpg)
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Here are scans of three more of my Mad magazines:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/003_zps467799ff.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/004_zpsd922c162.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/005_zpse49a6b49.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/006_zps2e5e1637.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/007_zps19d9051b.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/008_zps83ecd68d.jpg)
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Here are scans of three more of my Mad magazines:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/016_zpse6e037b8.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/017_zps821552cf.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/018_zpsb2d12e38.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/019_zps4dc2f82a.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/020_zps7e12bec6.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/023_zpsf4005aea.jpg)
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Great collection of MAD's - I'm lovin' the Kelly Freas artwork.
Here then are scans of three more of my Mad magazines:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/022_zps5ee87c56.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/021_zpsa30d6ab5.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/006_zps16c8871b.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/007_zpsd2c8f406.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/008_zps2def4989.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Comics/Comics001/009_zps363ce83a.jpg)
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Spooky when you consider Kennedy was killed one month after that Castro cover.
British edition of Mad 355, Nov. 91~
(https://scontent-a-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t1/1926928_769982699695670_721338680_n.jpg)
Photo from The Monster Club on FB!
Damn, that is waaaay cool!