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If you pledged to my Death Ray 2020 Kickstarter, there is a good chance you received both a print and digital edition of the first printing the pilot issue of Kobayashi Maru’s (with this snappy cover!)
I will be publishing the mass-market edition of this issue soon, with a new cover (for the rubes… for that is all that you are to me! HAHAHAHAHA!) In the meantime, if you have already read this issue, let me know what you thought!
I’m just gonna say it: Baby Yoda?
NOT a fan.
It’s here! Issue #3 of the Hero’s Journey is complete and ready to corrupt your valuable electronic device! Thirty-two pages of wicked good comedy, the complete Kiss & Makeup storyline plus bonus content, is yours to own now now NOW!
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Next Week: The jumbo-sized conclusion to Kiss & Makeup!
My subscribers get good grub!

A good magician always gives away his secrets! At least, that’s what my penniless uncle, The Great Floppo, told me!
(If you were a subscriber, you’d get to see flotsam like this every week!)

Here’s a peek at next week’s strip. And I know what you are thinking: “Jason really draws nice shopping carts!”
After 67 years, MAD magazine is packing it in.
As a client, MAD was the crown jewel of my very thin resume, and cartooning for them has definitely been the high-water mark of my career. I am proud of the features I created for them, and especially proud of the ones that seemed to really hit the public’s funny bone, such as Scooby Don’t and Detective Slow-On-The-Draw.
I’ve also had the rare distinction of helping pull the plug of both of MAD’s ventilators: appearing in the last New York-era issue published out of their Mad-ison Avenue offices, as well as in the eighth and nearly-final issue of the Burbank, CA relaunch that began last year when parent company Warner Bros. moved the operation across the country (a move which did not include almost any of the editorial talent that had steered the ship for decades.)
But even as MAD kicks the bucket, I still managed to scratch one goal off my own bucket list: dropping cameos of my favorite Internet personalities– Mike, Jay and Rich of Red Letter Media— into the background of “The Preposterous Palpatine Plothole” comic that I crafted with my friend and fellow NY MAD alum Jon Bresman. Talk about good timing!
Now, some might say that the common factor in MAD‘s repeated morbidity was my appearing in it, but we all know who really staked the magazine through the heart: Pete Buttigieg.
Just recently, Mayor Pete, in an effort to zing Donald Trump for comparing him to Alfred E. Neuman, told the press that he didn’t get the reference. “I’ll be honest. I had to Google that,” he said, in what was probably number three of the five daily salats he performs to prove his hipster bona fides to the kids. (The guy is nearly 40– he knows who fucking Alfred E. Neuman is.)
Did Buttigieg hand-wave MAD out of existence? If so, the joke is on him. The only thing worse than being in MAD was not being in it. And for a guy who is so earnest about appealing to the youngins, you’d think he’d have been more interested in showing up in MAD. It might have given his run for the White House some much needed traction.
MAD, you cracked Cracked, whacked Wacko, sicked-up on Sick, and, in a rare moment of generosity, helped Crazy get on the meds that have turned their life around. You were the Alpha and Omega of childhood bad taste. We shall not see your like again.
But by the grace of the Neuman, the Kaputnik and the Holy Klutz, I can say honestly and with pride (plus a little dyspepsia): ME NOT WORRIED!!
Is it already time for a new one? I’m not done hating the last one!!