MEET JOHN FICARRA OF MAD MAGAZINE AT COMIC-CON

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MEET JOHN FICARRA OF MAD MAGAZINE AT COMIC-CON

WHAT:         John Ficarra, Editor, MAD Magazine, is available for interviews at Comic-Con. Find out what's happening with America's most famous humor magazine and get a preview of the never-before-seen pages of Totally MAD, the new book celebrating MAD Magazine's 60^th anniversary (on sale Oct. 30).

John Ficarra and "The Usual Gang of Idiots" will host a MAD panel at Comic-Con on Saturday, July 14 (Room 9, 2-3 PM). Panelists will include MAD art directors Sam Viviano and Ryan Flanders, MAD movie and TV satire artists Tom Richmond and Angelo Torres, Spy vs. Spy artist/writer Peter Kuper and the legendary MAD cartoonist Sergio Aragonés. There will also be an audience Q&A with prizes. 

WHO:            John Ficarra, Editor, MAD Magazine

                         

WHEN:         John has availability on Friday, July 13 at the MAD booth (# 1915).

WHERE:       Comic-Con International - Booth # 1915 

                        Mad Magazine Panel: July 14, Room 9, 2-3 PM

MORE:          Totally MAD is a celebration of MAD Magazine from the 1950s to today. Organized by decade, this oversized 256-page book features some of the world's best comedy writers, cartoonists and humorous illustrators – "The Usual Gang of Idiots" – as they have long called themselves. It includes such classics as Spy vs. Spy, Al Jaffee's MAD Fold-in, Sergio Aragonés' A MAD Look At…, David Berg's The Lighter Side of…, plus the outrageous artwork of Don Martin and Tom Bunk and the legendary movie and TV satires of Mort Drucker, Jack Davis and Tom Richmond. Newer MAD classics include, Planet Tad, by "Daily Show" head writer Tim Carvell, the MAD Strip Club, the Fundalini Pages and much more.

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