Yarmouth's Mike Holmes, who worked on Mad Magazine
On Thursday, it was announced that Mad Magazine would cease publication after 67 years.
The iconic satire magazine was rebooted last year with issue #1 and the final original issue is out in August.
Yarmouth cartoonist Mike Holmes has been working for the magazine for the past 2 years, something he calls a “dream job”.
He tells Y95 News he grew up as a fan and still remembers his first issue.
“I saw the issue with Miami Vice on the cover and I was like…okay, ‘I gotta buy this’. I think the whole thing was, they were like interrogating somebody and, instead of guns in their holsters, they had hairdryers!…and I was like, ‘that’s the height of comedy!’…so, yeah, I was pretty much hooked after that”
Holmes spoke about seeing the first issue with his own work.
“The first time I opened up the first issue of Mad that I was in…and, I opened it all the way to the back, and I’m like ‘oh, I’m all the way in the back but…I’m right across from the fold-in’. (laughs) it was…I mean Al Jaffe is in his mid-90s and he’s still making content for mad Magazine and it’s still stellar”
After the August issue, Mad will publish reprinted material with new covers.
Holmes is working on other projects, including as an artist on graphic novels for Scholastic.
Reported by Sean MacLellan
