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For several years now, I’ve been a writer for MAD Magazine. MAD was one of my first professional credits as a comedy writer. As of this writing, I’ve written approximately thirty humor pieces for MAD.

So far, I’ve created one recurring feature for MAD (“Shamazon.com,” a parody of – wait for it – Amazon.com), and several of my MAD pieces have been reprinted in MAD trade paperback collections. I was interviewed for two of those TPBs: MADvertising: A MAD Look at 50 Years of MADison Avenue by David Shayne (2005) and MAD About Star Wars by Jonathan Bresman (2007).

You can read some of my MAD humor pieces immediately below. The first one, the “Gulf Wars Episode II” parody poster, was co-written by myself and Scott Sonneborn. I wrote the other humor pieces by myself, and one of them is a “Shamazon.com” piece. Click on each of the pieces to see them up close.

Here’s the first page of a MAD piece I wrote in 2019 to commemorate Batman’s 80th birthday. It’s called “What If Batman Were Actually 80 Years Old?” What’s that, you say? The image below is too small to read? Well, you can read all three pages of this “What If Batman…” comic at its full size by clicking HERE.

And if you click HERE, you can see a list of all of the humor pieces I’ve written for MAD over the years. The list is from Doug Gilford’s MAD Cover Site.

But wait! There’s more! In addition to my work as an actual keyboard-pounding, joke-conjuring writer for MAD, I’ve also used my dashing good looks to model for a few MAD pieces written by other people. Here I am in a photo taken by longtime MAD photographer Irving Schild for a Sharper Image catalog parody. The parody was written by Brian & Sean Farrelly, and the pic is of me in a “camouflage suit,” meant to help employees hide from their bosses at work.

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