CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: MAD COMIC COVER GALLERY OMNIBUS...

Thursday 17 October 2024

MAD COMIC COVER GALLERY OMNIBUS...

As most of you crazy Crivvies will already know, Mad started out as an ordinary comicbook for its first 23 issues, before metamorphosing into a magazine format. You'll have seen these covers before in a four part cover gallery I did a few years back, but I thought it would be handy to re-present them in an omnibus post so that they're all in one place. Enjoy refreshing your memories.

5 comments:

top_cat_james said...: Tuesday's syndicated comic panel Bizarro used the "Picasso chick" from Issue #22. I'm the one who pointed it out in the comments section.; 17 October 2024 at 02:57
top_cat_james said...: Also, I'm afraid I have to disagree with your declaring pre-magazine format MAD as a "ordinary" comic book. I own a collection volume set of those issues that I reread about every five years or so, and I'm always amazed how much of it still holds up despite it primarily being seventy-year-old topical satire. There's some brilliant stuff here that the passage of time has not diminished--I can only imagine the impact this stuff must of had when it was new.; 17 October 2024 at 03:22
Kid said...: I would've thought the context made clear that I was talking about the format, not the content. It wasn't yet a magazine, it was an ordinary comicbook - as in the same as other comicbooks, dimension-wise. Then it became a magazine.; 17 October 2024 at 07:59
top_cat_james said...: Apologies for my misinterpretation, then.; 17 October 2024 at 10:55
Kid said...: No need to apologise, but it helps if commenters read things in context before commenting.; 17 October 2024 at 12:03

About the artist:

From 1985 to 2000 A.D. (little joke there), I contributed to a variety of high profile comics and magazines for various companies.

For IPC/FLEETWAY/EGMONT, I freelanced as a lettering and logo artist on various weekly comics and monthly magazines, and also as a resize comic artist and spot illustrator on pocket books, summer specials and annuals.

For MARVEL U.K., BLACK LIBRARY, REDAN and USBORNE BOOKS, I again freelanced as a lettering artist, also working as a restoration artist for MARVEL U.S., restoring and re-creating certain pages of JACK KIRBY art for their MARVEL MASTERWORKS editions.

I also lettered the MARVELMAN sample pages submitted to MARVEL U.S. when they were considering acquiring the character, which - as we all now know - they DID.

Supplied comic strips, cartoons and illustrated advertisements for local business campaigns and newspaper publication on a professional basis since the age of 16. Did my first paid art job for publication at 14 or 15 for Lanarkshire Education Board.

Have also made TV appearances as a collector of memorabilia.

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Just some of the titles I worked on are:

2000 A.D. * JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE * DICEMAN * SONIC The COMIC * JUDGE DREDD, LAWMAN Of The FUTURE * CRISIS * REVOLVER * EAGLE * TIGER * BATTLE ACTION-FORCE * BUSTER * WHIZZER & CHIPS * WHOOPEE * NIPPER * SCHOOL FUN * ACE VENTURA, PET DETECTIVE * The REAL GHOSTBUSTERS * DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE * COUNT DUCKULA * RUGRATS * The TRANSFORMERS * DEATH'S HEAD * THUNDERCATS * GALAXY RANGERS * DRAGON'S CLAWS * SINDY * MARVEL MASTERWORKS * The TROLLS * LOADED * INFERNO * WARHAMMER * ROSE BLACK.

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