Insights into the most subversive magazine ever to be sold on US newsstands
Mad Magazine
What, Me Worry? At of MAD exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum
Mad art for a mad world on display
Cartoonist Tom Richmond among award nominees from National Cartoonists Society
Bonkers movie parody book gets deserved kudos
Alter Ego spotlights the career of MAD magazine’s Angelo Torres
Alter Ego turns its attention onto an EC Comics and MAD magazine legend
Festivities Distraction: Doug Gilford’s MadCoverSite
Check out this amazing resource for all things MAD, compiled by Doug Gilford
In Memoriam: MAD Magazine artist Paul Coker Jr.
One of the most talented and stylistically ubiquitous artists of modern times has passed
MAD magazine’s Thomas Fluharty interview leads latest illustrators magazine
The latest issue of illustrators magazine, from Book Palace Books, embraces Thomas Fluharty, one of the usual gang of idiots from MAD magazine during the 1990s
The Unseen, Rejected art of Ken Reid?
Writer and publisher Irmantas Povilaika has unearthed another gem by the brilliant Ken Reid…
Who Remembers MAD Magazine’s “Doctor Ooh”? (And some MAD UK history, and a mad idea, too)
Set your nostalgia scanners to 1975! It’s time for MAD UK’s “Doctor Ooh”…
“MAD Magazine” may be a pale shadow of its former self, but at least, hopefully, there will be “Claptrap”!
Happy Birthday, MAD Magazine! It’s a shame DC Comics decided to effectively bring this once great title to an ignominious end earlier this year.
Coming Soon: Taschen’s “History of EC Comics”
Offering more than 1000 images and rarities, there’s something new here for even the most die-hard EC fan-addict
Learn to Draw Caricatures with MAD Magazine’s Tom Richmond
Top MAD Magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond is running two workshops in Europe this summer, one in Vienna and one in Dublin
In Memoriam: Those We Have Lost in 2019 – Part Two
downthetubes regularly tries to pay tribute to comic creators no longer with us. We list those we have noted who died between July and December 2019, and others reported elsewhere, here. 2019 has been a difficult year for the family… Read More ›
Lakes Festival Focus 2017: An Interview with MAD magazine artist Tom Richmond
There’s not long to go now until this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October (13th – 15th). The downthetubes “Kendal Calling” interviews continue with a chat with top MAD magazine cartoonist Tom Richmond… Caricaturist, cartoonist and humorous illustrator,… Read More ›
Did MAD Magazine’s cover boy Alfred E. Neuman hail from… Iowa?
Alfred E. Neuman is the fictitious mascot and cover boy of the American humour magazine MAD, a face that had drifted through US pictography for decades before being claimed by the title’s editor Harvey Kurtzman, and later named by the… Read More ›