Tag Archives: mad magazine

mad about photo parodies

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Dave

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) MAD March 1969 issue, #125 Photograph: Irving Schild MAD’s mad photographer—who shot many, many more covers than you’d think, despite the seeming lock on the covers that cartoonist-painters the … Continue reading →

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ubiquitous jack : quick draw cultural dialog

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) jack davis is likely the most ubiquitous, most published and most familiar cartoonist/illustrator of the last half century. i think everybody knows his work. they may not always know his name, but we’ve all seen … Continue reading →

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gotta watch those reds

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) them ruskies! they always have to do things THEIR way! and then they have to go and claim they invented it! they’re almost japanese (or even british) in the competitive obsessions! take for instance this old … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged 8 inch records, art chantry, mad magazine, record LP's that play inside-out, russian record manufacturing, soviet graphic design, soviet LPs, soviet music industry | Leave a comment

get inspired: spontaneous creationism

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) AFTER all these years of thrashing around in thrift stores looking for cool junk, i FINALLY started to look in the book section usually labeled “inspirational”. this is the section in the back (or in … Continue reading →

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personal totem: getting sentimental on a primal nasty

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Dave

Getty nasty and rude; a little cheeky fresh and punky before the PC Nazis neutered the magic. …. Art Chantry (Art@artchantry.com): Last week I was at a thrift store and found a stash of old National Lampoons from the early … Continue reading →

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let bygones be bygones…

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Art

More on an illustration style that was the dominant norm in the 1960′s and has vanished, an artifact from a bygone era. But it could come back… Art Chantry:For the last couple of days, I’ve been talking about this illustration … Continue reading →

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the goofball style

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Art

Art continues with the “dirty wrapping paper” and adult humor graphics….. Art Chantry: Yesterday, I wrote about the ‘dirty wrapping paper”, “adult humor” graphics and that really wonderful late 50′s early 60′s illustration style that is now so completely gone … Continue reading →

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under wraps: taming the great unwashed

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Art

“Adult” humor as Art points can be something of a misnomer….. Art Chantry:This is some ‘adult’ humor. why do they call this ‘adult’, when it’s so embarrassingly juvenile and stupid that it only appeals to pre-adolescents? what’s the word for … Continue reading →