Mad Spy Vs Spy: An Explosive Celebration

Author(s): The Editors of Mad Magazine

Film, TV & Theatre

MAD Magazine's iconic Spy vs Spy comic strip--now in full color! One of the most celebrated comic strips in MAD's history has a deceptively simple concept: twin spies, one clad in black and the other in white, outdoing each other in elaborately stupid plots to achieve the other's demise. Now, for the first time, MAD presents a new Spy vs Spy anthology celebrating 150 classic adventures in blazing full color. Bonus material created exclusively for this collection includes a foreword by superfan Lewis Black, new interpretations of the Spy characters by 15 acclaimed graphic artists--including Frank Miller, comic writer-artist and blockbuster filmmaker, and Nathan Sawaya, internationally recognized Lego artist--and a heartfelt memoir in comic-strip form of Spy vs Spy creator, Antonio Prohias, by award-wining MAD artist Sergio Aragones. Additional special features include dynamic charts and graphs to deconstruct and quantify which spy has "won" the most through the comic strip's volatile history, the most popular weapons and ploys used in the strip, means of death, and more, plus a beautifully printed endpaper featuring David Anson Russo's interactive maze, where readers can play as either white or black spy. "

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MAD is America's longest running and best-selling magazine with that name. For over 60 years MAD has been synonymous for "excellence in low standards." With its grinning, gapped-toothed idiot mascot, Alfred E Neuman "gracing" its front cover, MAD satirizes politics, celebrities, sports and more in its print and digital editions, and also on its daily humor blog (which is updated daily, hence the term "daily humor blog"). MAD's most legendarily moronic features include Spy vs. Spy, The Fold-in, "A MAD Look at..," Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions and its iconic TV and movie parodies. MAD's contributors - widely known as "Usual Gang of Idiots" - include such notable names Al Jaffee, Sergio Aragones, Peter Kuper, and Tim Carvell - although they wisely prefer to downplay their association with the magazine. Sergio Aragones is a Spanish/Mexican cartoonist and writer best known for his contributions to "MAD Magazine" and creator of the comic book "Groo the Wanderer." His work has won him numerous awards, most notably the Eisner Award for "Groo the Wanderer" in 1992. He also received the National Cartoonists Society Comic Book Award for 1986, their Humor Comic Book Award for 1973, 1974, and 1976, their Magazine and Book Illustration Award for 1989, their Special Features Award for 1977, their Gag Cartoon Award for 1983, and their Reuben Award in 1996 for his work on "MAD "and "Groo the Wanderer.""

General Fields

  • : 9781618931597
  • : Time Inc Home Entertaiment
  • : Time Inc Home Entertaiment
  • : October 2015
  • : United States
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : The Editors of Mad Magazine
  • : Hardback
  • : Hardback
  • : 224
  • : 224
  • : illustrations
  • : illustrations