Don’t see The Rise of Skywalker without reading…. what? You’ve already seen it twice??
Well… um… read my review anyway!

Don’t see The Rise of Skywalker without reading…. what? You’ve already seen it twice??
Well… um… read my review anyway!
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!!
It took a girl with a dragon tattoo and two Mr. Robots to solve my website problem, but I think I finally have the issue licked licked licked lickedTERMINALERROR500–$$$unexpected ampersand on line323–Homeland Security has been notified01010101010101*
Unfortunately, all this computer nonsense delayed my work on this week’s strip, so expect it in a few days. In the meantime, here’s a little something I threw together for May the Fourth!
Is it already time for a new one? I’m not done hating the last one!!
My childhood has had enough! It can’t take it anymore!! It’s time to stop apologizing for The Last Jedi!
The Buffalo ComicCon was held last weekend in gorgeous Buffalo “if you lived here you’d be planning your move west by now” New York. I was there, as was my my one-of-a-kind Jetson’s bowling shirt that was the talk of the show, and which attended several after parties without me. Sigh… at least there were plenty of costumed weirdos for me to forge lifelong friendships with!
Free Comic Book Day: apart from 4/20 and my birthday, the most important annual event in our country! This year I spent it at Level Up Entertainment in Mays Landing, New Jersey. I was wined, dined and even given a jar of cake. But as usually happens with my guest appearances, although I brought home many memories, I brought home even more bruises.
Such adventures! And if that weren’t enough, here’s  an interview with me done at the Flower City Comic-Con last month! (My bit starts at 6:50.)
CHICAGO! A town I have visited many times to sell my comics, always to be  beaten down by it’s big, windy shoulders! But this was the year I fought back! This was the year I assumed… MY ULTIMATE FORM!!