The MAD 1960 2016 calendar for Disgusting December!

"The MAD 1960 Calendar: December" from MAD #52 (January 1960), script by Larry Siegel, art by Bob Clarke

The MAD 1960 2016 calendar for Noxious November!

"The MAD 1960 Calendar: November" from MAD #52 (January 1960), script by Larry Siegel, art by Don Martin

366 Days with J. Jonah Jameson, Day 294: I'm Mad about Spider-Man, you're Mad about him doing what a spider can...

Panels from "Spider-Sham" in MAD Magazine #418 (June 2009), script by Dick Debartolo, art by Tom Richmond

The MAD 1960 2016 calendar for 'Orrible October!

"The MAD 1960 Calendar: October" from MAD #52 (January 1960), script by Larry Siegel, art by Wally Wood

The MAD 1960 2016 calendar for Stupid September!

"The MAD 1960 Calendar: September" from MAD #52 (January 1960), script by Larry Siegel, art by George Woodbridge

The MAD 1960 2016 calendar for Aflamed August!

"The MAD 1960 Calendar: August" from MAD #52 (January 1960), script by Larry Siegel, art by Joe Orlando

The MAD 1960 2016 calendar for Junky July!

"The MAD 1960 Calendar: July" from MAD #52 (January 1960), script by Larry Siegel, art by David Berg

A Month of... There Is No Hope in Crime Alley, Night 29: Wouldja believe this is the only Crime Alley sequence I could find in a MAD parody?

Panels from "Battyman, Begone!" in MAD #255 (July 2005); script by Desmond Devlin, art by Tom Richmond

The MAD 1960 2016 calendar for Jugheaded June!

"The MAD 1960 Calendar: June" from MAD #52 (January 1960), script by Larry Siegel, art by Mort Drucker

A Month of... Batman's Got a Gun, Day 16: Batman's chin is locked and loaded

Panel from "Battyman" in MAD #289 (September 1989), script by Stan Hart, pencils and inks by Mort Drucker

The MAD 1960 2016 calendar for MAD May!

"The MAD 1960 Calendar: May" from MAD #52 (January 1960), script by Larry Siegel, art by Joe Orlando

The MAD 1960 2016 calendar for Awful April!

"The MAD 1960 Calendar: April" from MAD #52 (January 1960), script by Larry Siegel, art by Kelly Freas

The MAD 1960 2016 calendar for Moronic March!

"The MAD 1960 Calendar: March" from MAD #52 (January 1960), script by Larry Siegel, art by Wally Wood

The MAD 1960 2016 calendar for Fatheaded February!

"The MAD 1960 Calendar: February" from MAD #52 (January 1960), script by Larry Siegel, art by Bob Clarke

The MAD 1960 2016 calendar for Jerky January!

Well, sorry folks: no Marvel Age Calendar for this year, because as far as I can tell, Marvel Age didn't put a calendar on the back covers of their 1988 issues. (Boo! Hiss! Get rid of those house ads!) In fact, I can't return to the Marvel Age calendars until at least 2018, when I can re-use the 1990 one; or 2019, when I can ditto with the 1985. And what with it bein' a Leap Year (gosh! I better watch myself around Shelly the Otter!), we'd have to go back to 1960 to look for a calendar we can use again in 2016! Say, now that you mention it...


"The MAD 1960 Calendar" from MAD #52 (January 1960), script by Larry Siegel, art by Bob Clarke
Why, that's just what we need, a calendar that brings us boldly into the sixties sixteen!


"The MAD 1960 Calendar: January" from MAD #52 (January 1960), script by Larry Siegel, art by Joe Orlando
Clip it out with scissors and paste it up on the wall of your seedy 1960s style apartment! (Be sure to print it out and don't cut up your computer monitor. Don't make the same silly mistake I made!)

365 Days of Star Wars Comics, Day 126: That wizard is just a MAD old man

Panel from "Star Roars" in MAD #196 (January 1978), script by Larry Siegel and Dick DeBartolo, pencils and inks by Harry North

Today in Comics History: And she'll have UN UN UN 'til her daddy takes the General Assembly away

Today in Comics History (as we like to say around here)...well, something something this!


Panel from Four Color #1349 [Yogi Bear Visits the U.N.] (January 1962), script by Paul S. Newman, pencils and inks by Fred Fredericks
Yep, it's United Nations Day! Founded on this date in 1945, the UN has been in a lotta comic books. (Almost as many as Wolverine!) In the absence of any other material tonight, let's front-load this puppet-town cow blog with a whole Dag Hammarskjöldfull of appearances by everyone's slim, tall building on the east side of Manhattan to celebrate United Nations Day! It also happens to be the same date from 1260, when Saif ad-Din Qutuz, third Mamluk Sultan of Egypt, is assassinated by Baibars, a fellow Mamluk leader, who seizes power for himself. But I can't find any of my comic books about that.

Let's UN-wind by kicking off a series of DC comic book PSAs telling us how nifty the United Nations is!

Paper Doll Month, Day 10: Cutting Mad

"Paper Doll Page" from Mad #28 (July 1956), pencils and inks by Will Elder

Comic Book Winona Ryder!



Panels from Alien Resurrection #1 (top) and #2 (bottom) (October-November 1997), script by Jim Vance, pencils and inks by Eduardo Risso, colors by Dave Stewart, letters by Gary Fields


Comic Book Winona Ryder!


Panels from Aliens vs. Predator vs. The Terminator #1, (April 2000), script by Mark Schultz, pencils by Mel Rubi, inks by Christopher Ivy, colors by Dave Stewart, letters by Pat Brosseau


Comic Book Winona Ryder!




Panels from Bram Stoker's Dracula #1 (top and middle) and #2 (bottom) (October-November 1992), script by Roy Thomas, pencils by Mike Mignola, inks by John Nyberg, colors by Mark Chiarello, letters by John Costanza


Comic Book Winona Ryder!




Panels from Beetlejuice #1 (October 1991), script by Angelo DeCesare, pencils by Ernie Colon, inks by Frank Hill, colors by "In Color," letters by Jorge Pacheco


Comic Book Winona Ryder!


Panel from Star Trek Countdown to Darkness #1 (January 2013), plot by Roberto Orci and Mike Johnson, script by Mike Johnson, pencils and inks by Davie Messina, ink assist by Marina Castelvetro, colors by Claudia Scarletgothica*, letters by Chris Mowry


We're mad about Comic Book Winona Ryder!





Panels from Mad (top to bottom) #304 (script by Dick DeBartolo, art by Angelo Torres), 319 (script by Dick DeBartolo, art by Mort Drucker), 368 (script by Dick DeBartolo, art by Mort Drucker), and 442 (script by Jeff Kruse, art by Rich Tulka)


Comic Book Winona Ryder!



Panels from A Scanner Darkly (July 2006), based on the novel by Philip K. Dick, written for the screen and directed by Richard Linklater

Comic Book Winona Ryder!

Panels from Foolkiller (1990 series) #6 (April 1991), script by Steve Gerber, pencils by Joe Brozowski [as J.J. Birch], inks by Vince Giarrano, colors by Greg Wright, letters by Phil Felix

*I know! Claudia Scarletgothica! I woulda paid good money to see Winona Ryder play a film character called Claudia Scarletgothica. Claudia Scarletgothica!

What, me worry?

Well, to clear up the confusion the above might bring: no, I'm not on vacation, and yes, I'll be back (and sooner than two weeks!) Unexpected life events took me away from my li'l stuffed blog but I'll be back PDQ-ASAP with all the Halloweenie features of which you might be frightened (that you missed)! Stay tuned and I should be back this weekend...cross your hooves for me!

Oh, and another confusing thing: I am not on the cover of Mad. It's jus' my li'l salute o' the hoof (and an apology) to Alfred E. Neuman and the Usual Gang of Idiots:


Cover of Mad #130 (October 1969)