Cartoonist and regular MAD Magazine artist Tom Richmond just posted some insider tips on working for MAD Magazine over at his excellent blog.
Sorry to say, there’s no secret handshake or magic words, but the good news is that it’s at least easier nowadays to get your work in the mag than it was back in the 70’s & 80’s — MAD has opened up to a wider range of styles as well as a wider pool of freelancers that they work with.
And to quote Tom on the likelihood of your artwork getting seen:
Trust me when I say that anyone who sends work into MAD will get the proper attention paid to it, usually by art director Sam Viviano himself.
That’s good to hear, although Vivano’s artwork is phenomenal—it’s gotta be nerve-wracking to submit to him. I remember his work way back in my Scholastic Book Club days, in Dynamite Magazine. Now that’s going waaaay back!
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Ãœber long-time contributing artist most famously known for his “fold-ins” on the back cover of each issue of MAD, Al Jaffee has a feature article over at the New York Times, along with a special feature on the “fold-ins” themselves.
The fold-in started life as a parody on Playboy’s centerfold fold-outs. Jaffee pitched it to MAD, expecting the worst. I can’t even imagine MAD Magazine without them.
via Fabio Muniz on Twitter
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Published on
August 2, 2006 in
Illustration, art and cartooning.
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MAD Magazine cartoonist/caricaturist Tom Richmond has an awesome tutorial on his site about his working methods for getting his line art into finished color works of art.
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Published on
October 14, 2005 in
art.
Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, art, Atari, Coleco, design, gadget, graphic design, Illustration, illustrator, logo, MAD Magazine, mp3, Odd Rods, PEZ, Portfolio, Star Wars, trading cards, video game.
All my gadget RSS feeds are a-buzz with the news that the PEZ MP3 player is finally available, and the logo was designed by me. I’m partially, non-credited famous! Yow!
The guy who created this officially licensed PEZ MP3 player — which is actually a real PEZ dispenser that has an MP3 player inside — is a stay at home dad, and a nice guy as well. He started the project up as a hobby, and from internet buzz he started thinking, “What if…” and today it’s a reality.
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