Illustration Friday: Signs
click image for larger viewthis week's entry strays outside what might be strictly labeled "comic book", however MAD Magazine is still an icon of american pop culture and has its roots in the comic world. published in 1952 by EC comics, Mad survived the CCA blitz to clean up comics. over the years an army of talent has worked under the "gang of idiots" banner, namely Wally Wood, Jack Davis, Harvey Kurtzman, Basil Wolverton, Don Martin, Sergio Aragones and Mort Drucker, just to name a few.
no subject was safe from satire or parody from wars and religion to movies and television. in december of 2002 Mad (issue #424) did a parody of the movie Signs called "Designs", however they went with the more commercially popular "Harry Plodder" cover for the issue. this is my my idea of what the cover might have been. the price is wrong (it's what it would have cost back in the mid 70s when it really was cheap) and the logo is also from a bygone era, but the stuff across the top is what was actually in the issue in question. (special thanks to http://www.collectmad.com/ for the information. the site also has an amazing cover gallery).
No Prize Dept: last week's No-Prize goes to andrezero for correctly naming Hellcat as Ruby Red's model (although the cover pose i used was from the avengers, not the west coast branch.) but, congratulations Andre for winning no prize. i'm sure your parents will be proud!
this week's illustration was done in Photoshop specifically for this IF challenge.
as always thanks to everyone who commented. (Tart: i worked in dallas for 25 years as an artist... that's about all there is to tell.) everyone enjoy the show and have a groovy week ahead.
posted by demosthenes at 8:14 AM
5 Comments:
Thanks for dropping by. I love MAD magazines. They were so politically incorrect!!! Loved them. You do varied and interesting work. I like your Ambigram site and the kittens are cute. Nice avatar, just like you :-)
Yeah, thanks for having a look at my blog too!
You do have great work here - keep it up!
mad still lookin good
Ah, Mad. Nicely done (I found my second thought with this topic was 'what will demosthenes do with it?)
My favorite parody title from 'the day' was " A Crock of S#*@ Now'. Is there an age limit for enjoying Mad, or has the quality truly gone down? I used to adore mad (Don Martin Ruled!), now, I'm completely 'meh' about it.
Hellcat?!
Dang. Here I was with an full run of OHOTMU from 1986 and I still not enough of a comic geek to get that. I was certain it wasn't Man-Thing, though.
Thanks for the crit. You were spot-on.
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