Hey gang, I'm going to be starting a new feature here on the THWAK studios blog called "Friends of THWAK" where I'll be reviewing and commenting on various projects that many of the talented folks at THWAK have been involved with.
Kicking it off is owner of The MAD store.com (www.theMADstore.com) Scott Gosar. Scott has been providing 1000's of customers access to tens of thousands of their favorite humor magazines for close to a decade! Honestly if there's something you are looking for then Scott probably has it in his huge warehouse. With complete runs of MAD, CRACKED, National Lampoon and CRAZY and tons of obscure items you'll certainly have fun finding those long lost vintage magazines. The great thing is that Scott meticulously grades his inventory so if you're looking for Near Mint issues for your collection or plain reading copies - he has it all!
I actually "met" Scott in an online sense when I was perusing around his site back in early 2002. After mentioning my own publishing venture with THWAK I found out that Scott was a talented writer with excellent satirical sensibilities and starting with THWAK #2 was a regular, contributing many articles to both THWAK and JOKESTER. While writing for the Weekly World News (the folks who bought CRACKED) Scott and I took over as editors in late summer of 2003 and got started recrafting the look and feel of the iconic magazine. We certainly had a great time coming up with themes, cover ideas and layouts.
Scott has been continuously adding to the MAD stores' inventory these last few years and also conducted an excellent interview with MADman Frank Jacobs, portions of which are on his website. Look for the full interview in "The JOURNAL of MADness" trade paperback which will be out later this year.
Incidentally the MAD store logo was done by none other than MAD artist Tom Richmond.
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