Today in Comics History, April 23: Happy birthday, Michael Moore!

Born on this day: film director, producer, screenwriter and author Michael Moore of fame for Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, and let us not forget, Canadian Bacon (and more). Moore's movies have attracted controversial attention for his extreme liberal views and weighting his narrative through editing, which makes him a perfect character to appear in recent-years' issues of MAD magazine:


from "Idiotic Anti-Gun Control Arguments The NRA Hasn't Used - Yet!" in MAD #483 (November 2007), script by Jacob Lambert, pencils and inks by Peter Kuper






from "Why George W. Bush Is in Favor of Global Warming" in MAD #487 (March 2008), by Jim Morin


from "American Sniping" in MAD #533 (June 2015), script by D. Shayne, pencils and inks by Tom Richmond (c
But as for me, why, I'll always choose to remember Michael Moore as the kid who could boss around Superman.


from Action Comics (1938 series) #497 (DC, July 1979), script by Cary Bates, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Frank Chiaramonte, colors by Gene D'Angelo, letters by Ben Oda
Happy birthday, Michael Moore!