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The Professor Frenzy Show Episode 327  Lady Mechanika The Devil In The Lake #2  from  Image  |  Writer(s): Joe Benitez M.M. Chen   |  Artist(s): Siya Oum  |  $3.99 Scarlett #5 from Image Comics (W) Kelly Thompson (A) Marco Ferrari, Lee Loughridge $3.99 Transformers #13 from Image Comics (W) Daniel Warren Johnson (A) Jason Howard, Mike Spicer $3.99 MAD magazine #40 (W/A)  The Usual Gang of Idiots $5.99   Plastic Death & Dolls #5  from  Image  |  Writer(s): Doug Wagner   |  Artist(s):Daniel Hillyard  |  $3.99 Autumn Kingdom #2  from  Oni Press  |  Writer(s): Cullen Bunn   |  Artist(s):Christopher Mitten  |  $4.99 Minor Arcana #2  from  BOOM! Studios  |  Writer(s): Jeff Lemire   |  Artist(s): Jeff Lemire  |  $4.99 Seance In The Asylum #1  from  Dark Horse  |  Writer(s): Clay McLeod Chapman  |  Artist(s): Andrea Mutti  |  $3.99 Rocketeer Breaks Free #3  from  IDW Publishing  |  Writer(s): Stephen Mooney  | Artist(s): Staz Johnson  |  $4.99 The Toxic Avenger #1 from Ahoy Comics (W)  Matt Bors (A) Fred Harper $3.99   Best New Comic Books Black Cloak #9 from Image Comics (W) Kelly Thompson (A) Meredith McClaren $3.99  Prodigy Slaves of Mars #3 from Dark Horse Comics (W) Mark Millar (A) Stefano Landini $4.99 Where Monsters Lie Cull-De-Sac #1  from  Dark Horse  |  Writer(s): Kyle Starks  | Artist(s): Piotr Kowalski  |  $3.99 Ice Cream Man Presents Decompression In A Wreck Deluxe Special #1 (One Shot) from  Image  |  Writer(s): W. Maxwell Prince   |  Artist(s): Martín Morazzo Chris O'Halloran  |  $7.99 Epitaphs From The Abyss #4 (EC Comics) from  Oni Press  |  Writer(s): J Holtham   |  Artist(s): David Lapham Claire Roe Leomacs  |  $4.99 Godfather Of Hell #1  from  Vault Comics  |  Writer(s): Cavan Scott   |  Artist(s):Pius Bak  |  $4.99 Hard Case Crime Minky Woodcock The Girl Called Cthulhu #1  from  Titan Comics  |  Writer(s): Cynthia von Buhler   |  Artist(s): Cynthia von Buhler  |  $3.99 House Of Slaughter #26  from  BOOM! Studios  |  Writer(s): Sam Johns   | Artist(s): Letizia Cadonici  |  $3.99 Nostalgia Josie and the Pussycats #57 cover dated September 1971; cover priced 25 cents This week's that guy that was in that show is  Paul Sand Favorite Twilight Zone episode The 16 Millimeter Shrine, Season 1 Episode 4, Original air date October 23, 1959

The Professor Frenzy Show Episode 326 Conan The Barbarian Battle Of The Black Stone #2  from   Titan Comics  | Writer(s): Jim Zub   |  Artist(s): Jonas Scharf  |  $3.99 Cruel Universe #3  (EC Comics) from   Oni Press  |  Writer(s): Cullen Bunn   | Artist(s): Kano  |  $4.99 Svengoolie 45th Anniversary Svengoolies Halloween Boo-Nanza #1 (One Shot) from   Gemstone Publishing  |  Writer(s): Rich Koz   |  Artist(s): Bill Morrison  |  $7.99 Archies Halloween Spectacular #1 (One Shot) 2024 from   Archie Comics  | Writer(s): Ian Flynn   |  Artist(s): Steven Butler  |  $3.99 I Hate Fairyland Vol 2 #16  from   Image  |  Writer(s): Skottie Young   |  Artist(s):Brett Bean  |  $3.99 The Deviant #8  from   Image  |  Writer(s): James Tynion IV   |  Artist(s): Joshua Hixson  |  $3.99 The Creeping Below #1 from BOOM! Studios (W)  Brian Azzarello (A) Vanesa R. Del Rey $4.99   Redcoat #6  from   Image  |  Writer(s): Geoff Johns   |  Artist(s): Bryan Hitch Andrew Currie Brad Anderson  |  $3.99 Betty & Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest #328 from   Archie Comics  |  Writer(s): Various   |  Artist(s): Various  |  $9.99     This Week's Comic Books Scarlett #5 from Image Comics (W) Kelly Thompson (A) Marco Ferrari, Lee Loughridge $3.99 Transformers #13 from Image Comics (W) Daniel Warren Johnson (A) Jason Howard, Mike Spicer $3.99  MAD magazine #40 (W/A)  The Usual Gang of Idiots $5.99   Seance In The Asylum #1  from  Dark Horse  |  Writer(s): Clay McLeod Chapman  |  Artist(s): Andrea Mutti  |  $3.99 Rocketeer Breaks Free #3  from  IDW Publishing  |  Writer(s): Stephen Mooney  | Artist(s): Staz Johnson  |  $4.99 Lady Mechanika The Devil In The Lake #2  from  Image  |  Writer(s): Joe Benitez M.M. Chen   |  Artist(s): Siya Oum  |  $3.99 Plastic Death & Dolls #5  from  Image  |  Writer(s): Doug Wagner   |  Artist(s):Daniel Hillyard  |  $3.99 Autumn Kingdom #2  from  Oni Press  |  Writer(s): Cullen Bunn   |  Artist(s):Christopher Mitten  |  $4.99 Minor Arcana #2  from  BOOM! Studios  |  Writer(s): Jeff Lemire   |  Artist(s): Jeff Lemire  |  $4.99   OTHER Chris' Comics Corner The Joker #2 V1  cover dated July 1975; cover priced 25 cents.  This week's that guy that was in that show is  Jerry Van Dyke Favorite Twilight Zone episode The Last Flight Season 1 Episode 18

A new week means new questions! Hope you have fun with these!The vixen is the female of what species?What battle, that took place in 1942 and 1943 in southern Russia, was the bloodiest of World War II and arguably in all of human history?In the Nursery Rhyme, what did the old man play knick-knack on for the number three?What magazine took to calling its staff "The Usual Gang of Idiots"?In what eventual state was the first American Transcontinental Railroad first linked?Name the two shows that the character Trapper John was on. 5 pts eachWhich of Ian Fleming's villains was 6 foot 6 and bald in the book, but does not appear that way in film?What hit by "The Band" has the line "Take a load off Fanny, take a load for free"?MusicHot Swing, Fast Talkin, Bass Walker, Dances and Dames, Ambush by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Don't forget to follow us on social media:Patreon – patreon.com/quizbang – Please consider supporting us on Patreon. Check out our fun extras for patrons and help us keep this podcast going. We appreciate any level of support!Website – quizbangpod.com Check out our website, it will have all the links for social media that you need and while you're there, why not go to the contact us page and submit a question!Facebook – @quizbangpodcast – we post episode links and silly lego pictures to go with our trivia questions. Enjoy the silly picture and give your best guess, we will respond to your answer the next day to give everyone a chance to guess.Instagram – Quiz Quiz Bang Bang (quizquizbangbang), we post silly lego pictures to go with our trivia questions. Enjoy the silly picture and give your best guess, we will respond to your answer the next day to give everyone a chance to guess.Twitter – @quizbangpod We want to start a fun community for our fellow trivia lovers. If you hear/think of a fun or challenging trivia question, post it to our twitter feed and we will repost it so everyone can take a stab it. Come for the trivia – stay for the trivia.Ko-Fi – ko-fi.com/quizbangpod – Keep that sweet caffeine running through our body with a Ko-Fi, power us through a late night of fact checking and editing!

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'HOOHAH!' This week Tony is joined by co-hosts Al Henderson and Eamonn Clarke to discuss the phenomenon that is Mad Magazine and its impressive legacy.  The discussion focuses in on the history, characters, creators, impact and influence that this long-running comic has had globally. This one is not to be missed. You can find Al's work (who would make a great new member of the Usual Gang of Idiots with a Penned Guin fold-in or two) at his website here and you can follow him on Twitter right here. Why not have a listen to Eammon's Mega City Book Club podcast right here too. Or just stalk him online by following him on Twitter right here. Many thanks for listening.   

Welcome to the only roundtable podcast in compliance. Today, we have a quartet of Matt Kelly, Jonathan Marks, Jonathan Armstrong and Jay Rosen for a deep dive into plethora of compliance topics. We end with a veritable mélange of rants and shouts outs.     Jonathan Armstrong takes us through the significance of the EDPB approval of the UK Draft Data Protection Adequacy decision. Armstrong delivers a most heartfelt shout out to Prince Phillip for a life well lived. Jonathan Marks talks the new SEC position on ESG reporting and what it means for BODs and compliance. Marks rants about Bernie Madoff. Jay Rosen reviews a recent AMI, Integrity Through Compliance podcast with Rod Rosenstein. Rosen rants about his ongoing love/hate relationship with the Boston Red Sox. Matt Kelly discusses a recent Prevalent report on 3rd party risk management from the cybersecurity and ABC compliance perspective. Kelly rants about Hometown International, a NJ diner, with $14K in annual profits, a Fight Club in the back of the diner and a $100MM valuation. Tom Fox shouts out to Frank Jacobs, one of the "Usual Gang of Idiots” who made Mad Magazine must reading. For additional Resources: Matt Kelly blog post on Radical Compliance, The Cracks in Third Party Risk Management  See Cordery Compliance Client Alert, EDPB approves UK Draft Data Protection Adequacy Decisions  Listen to the AMI podcast Integrity Through Compliance with guest Rod Rosenstein  The members of the Everything Compliance are: Jay Rosen– Jay is Vice President, Business Development Corporate Monitoring at Affiliated Monitors. Rosen can be reached at JRosen@affiliatedmonitors.com Mike Volkov – One of the top FCPA commentators and practitioners around and the Chief Executive Officer of The Volkov Law Group, LLC. Volkov can be reached at mvolkov@volkovlawgroup.com Matt Kelly – Founder and CEO of Radical Compliance. Kelly can be reached at mkelly@radicalcompliance.com Jonathan Armstrong –is our UK colleague, who is an experienced data privacy/data protection lawyer with Cordery in London. Armstrong can be reached at armstrong@corderycompliance.com Jonathan Marks is Partner, Firm Practice Leader - Global Forensic, Compliance & Integrity Services at Baker Tilly. Marks can be reached at marks@bakertilly.com The host and producer (and sometime panelist) of Everything Compliance is Tom Fox the Voice of Compliance. He can be reached at tfox@tfoxlaw.com. Everything Compliance is a part of the Compliance Podcast Network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It was best of times, it was the maddest of times! Decades before MAD TV became a hit live-action sketch comedy series, the beloved satirical magazine made a pilot episode for an ANIMATED sketch comedy series, which brought the cartoons from the pages to life! It eventually aired as THE MAD MAGAZINE TV SPECIAL, and nobody seemed to notice. Was the original version of MAD TV, made by "The Usual Gang of Idiots"... CANCELED TOO SOON? William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are about to find out! Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more! And visit our TeePublic page to buy shirts, mugs and other exciting merchandise!  And if you want soap, be sure to check out M. Lopes da Silva's Etsy store: SaltCatSoap! Follow us on Twitter at @CriticAcclaim, join the official Fan Club on Facebook, follow Bibbs at @WilliamBibbiani and follow Witney at @WitneySeibold, and head on over to www.criticallyacclaimed.net for all their podcasts, reviews and more!  And don't forget to email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer your questions in a future episode! And check out our Amazon Wish List to send us more exciting one season wonders that we can review on the show!

This week Jason talks with one of the Usual Gang of Idiots, caricaturist, and MAD magazine artist, Tom Richmond! Tom Richmond is not only a great artist who has influenced many artists in the caricature and cartooning world, but he also teaches workshops publishes books on the art of caricature and more! We are pretty sure he is also the real BATMAN as well. Check out Tom's awesome work here, and remember to keep safe and healthy! https://www.tomrichmond.com/ Enjoy and remember to like and Subscribe!https://www.jasonseiler.com/ INSTAGRAM-seilerpaints

This conversation with The Hamilton Spectator's resident editorial cartoonist runs the gamut. Graeme Mackay (as Aaron learns, pronounced Mac-kai) is "The Last of the Mohicans." He has held his position since 1997 and,pre-COVID-19, was actually still been going into a newsroom when many of his editorial cartoonist colleagues either have been working from home for years or their positions have been eliminated entirely as newspapers tighten their belts.It's actually COVID-19 that forced Graeme to finally work from home and switch to digital drawing (something he would've had to do anyway as The Spectator was set to move offices later this year) and he and Aaron talk about that transition to digital and how Graeme is finding adjusting his technique after years of using traditional pen and ink.The two also talk about Graeme's serpentine route to working at The Spectator, from his interest in politics and glad-handing those in power to a brief stint in the deli section of Harrod's Department Store in London, England (and that time the late Dodi Fayed landed on the roof in his helicopter because he just had to have his favourite brand of mustard) to finally sending cartoons to various newspapers across Canada and being syndicated in many of them.They also talk about his earliest influences in cartooning, including the drawings of Richard Scary, and Graeme's uncanny ability to draw city skylines at just three years old. They talk about his earliest cartoons in the pages of Carelton University's student newspaper, the genius of Gary Larson's Farside and of course, Mad Magazine. The recent passing of Mort Drucker of The Usual Gang of Idiots there comes up as well. Meanwhile, both Aaron and Graeme share the fact that they were raised by television in common, which was another heavy influence on Graeme's career both in comedy with SCTV and in watching the news at a very early age.The two also discuss Graeme's favourite cartoons from his own work and the possibility of doing anthology or a "Best Of" somewhere down the line. Graeme talks about how supportive his editors have ever been and also those rare times his cartoons were spiked from publication. They discuss the fact that despite the fact he fears that the other shoe may one day drop and he may lose his job, he is a well respected cartoonist, having been featured in the "This Is Serious: Canadian Indie Comics" exhibit in early 2020 alongside Canadian comic book legends like Chester Brown, Seth and Fiona Smyth.Finally, not only do they talk about the way COVID-19 and the way the stay at home order is affecting Graeme's work, but also his part in "The Cartoonists Against COVID-19" social media exhibit spearheaded by The Association of Canadian Cartoonists to show solidarity with front line workers and to promote the work of the famous Canadian editorial cartoonists who may have lost work due to the pandemic. Then, the two wonder about whether maybe this pandemic will shake up the capitalist system in a good way. This episode is once again sponsored by Hairy Tarantula.Graeme Mackay's WebsiteGraeme Mackay on FacebookGraeme Mackay's YouTube ChannelGraeme Mackay, Wes Tyrell, Matt Weurker and Cartoonists Against COVID-19 on Politico#cartoonistsagainstcovidThe Association of Canadian CartoonistsOur conversation with Graeme's friend and fellow editorial cartoonist Wes TyrellSponsor Hairy Tarantula - Buy Comics online

MOUNTAIN COMICS #23 - MAD #242Rob welcomes back fellow network all-star Max Romero to the cabin to discuss issue #242 of the soon-to-be-late(?), great Mad Magazine, featuring parodies of Return of the Jedi, The A-Team, Peanuts, and work by Don Martin, Mort Drucker, Paul Coker, and the Usual Gang of Idiots!Check out images from this comic by clicking here! E-MAIL - firewaterpodcast@comcast.net Follow Mountain Comics on Twitter - https://twitter.com/FWPMountainComSubscribe to FW PRESENTS on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/fw-presents/id1207382042This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK: Visit the Fire & Water WEBSITE: http://fireandwaterpodcast.com Follow Fire & Water on TWITTER – https://twitter.com/FWPodcasts Like our Fire & Water FACEBOOK page – https://www.facebook.com/FWPodcastNetwork Support The Fire & Water Podcast Network on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fwpodcasts Use our HASHTAG online: #FWPodcastsThanks for listening!

FW PRESENTS: MOUNTAIN COMICS #23 - MAD #242 Rob welcomes back fellow network all-star Max Romero to the cabin to discuss issue #242 of the soon-to-be-late(?), great Mad Magazine, featuring parodies of Return of the Jedi, The A-Team, Peanuts, and work by Don Martin, Mort Drucker, Paul Coker, and the Usual Gang of Idiots! Check out images from this comic by clicking here! E-MAIL - firewaterpodcast@comcast.net Follow Mountain Comics on Twitter - https://twitter.com/FWPMountainCom Subscribe to FW PRESENTS on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/fw-presents/id1207382042 This podcast is a proud member of the FIRE AND WATER PODCAST NETWORK: Visit the Fire & Water WEBSITE: http://fireandwaterpodcast.com Follow Fire & Water on TWITTER – https://twitter.com/FWPodcasts Like our Fire & Water FACEBOOK page – https://www.facebook.com/FWPodcastNetwork Support The Fire & Water Podcast Network on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fwpodcasts Use our HASHTAG online: #FWPodcasts Thanks for listening!

Zack, Will, and Ben discuss Matt Kindt and David Rubín's ETHER from Dark Horse, Eddie Campbell's THE GOAT GETTERS from IDW, Samuel Delany and Mia Wolf's BREAD AND WINE from Fantagraphics, Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro's BITCH PLANET from Image, and the brand new MAD MAGAZINE from the Usual Gang of Idiots. 

Join the Usual Gang of Idiots as we spew verbal garbage about the biggest waste of $6 (Cheap!) you can find on newsstands today. That's right -- we're gabbin' about MAD Magazine! Including such stinkers as: Al Jaffee fold-ins! Spy VS Spy! Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions! and ... What, Me Worry? Plus, Jesse's recipe for Tuna and Jell-O Pie!

Amazing Spider-Man#799 by Dan Slott, Stuart Immonen, Wade Von Grawbadger, and Marte Gracia, MAD#1 by Al Jaffee, Tom Richmond, Sergio Aragones, Peter Kuper, Bob Fingerman, Pete Bagge, and the Usual Gang of Idiots, Judge Dredd Mega Collection Volume 80: Dark Side of the Moonby John Wagner, Brian Bolland, John Smith, Paul Marshall, Ian Gibson and more from 2000 AD and Hachette and Judge Dredd Megazine#395 featuring the Nemesis the Warlock monograph by Matthew Smith and Kevin O'Neill from Rebellion, Infinity 8#1 by Lewis Trondheim, Zep, and Dominique Bertail from Lion Forge, Deathbed#3 by Joshua Williamson, Riley Rossmo, and Ivan Plascencia from Vertigo, Doctor Star and the Kingdom of Lost Tomorrows #1 by Jeff Lemire, Max Fiumara, and Dave Stewart from Dark Horse, plus a whole mess more!

Sunny is solo today and discusses the latest Hogg outrage, plus the Leftist March for Our Lives and their old-ass participants (average age is 49 it turns out), the NRA is doing just fine, Nicolas Cruz gets sexy fan mail, because guns are the problem not him, and it costs more to house an inmate in California than it should so let's just stop arresting people.

Time Codes: 00:00:25 - Introduction 00:02:24 - Setup of interview 00:03:34 - Interview with Ger Apeldoorn 01:06:35 - Wrap up 01:08:17 - Contact us Just in time for the San Diego Comic-Con -- where he and Craig Yoe will be meeting with fans and signing books -- Ger Apeldoorn is on the show to talk with Derek about his new book, Behaving Madly: Zany, Loco, Cockeyed, Rip-off, Satire Magazines (IDW/Yoe Books). It's a beautifully produced work that highlights the many knockoffs of Bill Gaines's Mad that appeared between 1954 to 1959, attempting to capitalize on the kind of success the Usual Gang of Idiots enjoyed once the title changed to magazine format. These Mad wannabes appeared with such titles as From Here to Insanity, Cockeyed, Bunk!, SNAFU, Lunatickle, Who Goofed?, Thimk, Shook Up, Frenzy, Frantic!, Loco, Zany, and Nuts! You might think -- or thimk -- that these rip-offs would all be cheesy and subpar, but as Ger makes clear, these short-lived satire magazines included work from such comics legends as Jack Davis, Al Jaffee, Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby, Joe Kubert, Howard Nostrand, Bob Powell, Ross Andru, Basil Wolverton, and Russ Heath. Derivative and second-rate? Perhaps. But the selections in Behaving Madly are no laughing matter. Well...actually, they are. Check out this great promo from Yoe Books!  

It was important to me that we have a special guest for episode 100. They Might Be Giants fitted the job perfectly, a band that played an incredibly important role in the early development of my musical tastes, as strange and idiosyncratic as they might ultimately become. With episode 200, the camera gets pulled make even further, to a man and a magazine that, for better or worse, let an indelible mark on my impressionable young mind, as they have for generations before and since. Weeks before I sat down to record this interview in Al Jaffee’s amazing Manhattan studio, upcoming guest Kid Congo Powers made reference to a club “looking like a scene out of Mad Magazine.” I knew what he meant immediately. The strange cross section of the human experience filtered through the lens of the Usual Gang of Idiots. And at their center is Jaffee. The cartoonist is now 95 (“closer to 96,” as he handily points out during the interview), with his signature fold-in having appeared in virtual every issue between 1964 and 2008, along with his other mainstays like "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions.” The longest working cartoonist in history kindly agreed to sit down for wide ranging interview about life, death, cartooning and the importance of a steady gig. It’s one my absolute highlights of doing the show and great way to spend episode 200.

Today's Guest: Sergio Aragones, legendary MAD magazine cartoonist, creator, "Groo" Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of MAD cartoonist Sergio Aragones fans dressed up for Halloween as Groo the Wanderer… in the NEW new media capitol of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!  Order MAD’s Greatest Artists: Sergio Aragones: Five Decades of His Finest Works by clicking the book cover above! (2010) My first issue of MAD magazine was purchased near the checkout counter at a Stop & Shop supermarket in my hometown of North Brunswick, New Jersey, in July 1970. I’ll never forget the cover: a parody of the summer’s big hit, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, featuring a couple of actors named Redford & Newman. I no longer have it, but I suspect that that was my first exposure to legendary artist Sergio Aragones. SERGIO ARAGONES audio excerpt: "I did about 20 Pocket Books for MAD with new material. The characters are what sell the book. I thought, 'Why not draw myself on every cover? That way they know it's my book.' So I became a comic book character." Sergio has been producing illustrated gags for MAD since 1963 and for many fans, his work and the humor mag’s name are forever entwined. He has been one of the Usual Gang of Idiots for longer than I’ve been able to spell “ee-diots.” This month, Sergio — who has already won the National Cartoonist Society’s top honor, the Reuben Award, as well as the Will Eisner Hall of Fame Award and the Comic Art Professional Society’s Sergio Award, named after, um… him — is being recognized in a different way with a book retrospective. MAD’s Greatest Artists: Sergio Aragones: Five Decades of His Finest Works, is an oversized coffee table collectible that reproduces some of his finest, crazy material in a hardcover format that will no doubt outlast us all. It is a great honor to have him as a guest today. Sergio Aragones Website • Groo • Facebook • Order MAD’s Greatest Artists: Sergio Aragones: Five Decades of His Finest Works Order 'Sergio Aragones Funnies,' named by the National Cartoonists Society the Best Comic Book of 2013, available from Amazon.com by clicking on the comic book cover above! Order 'Sergio Aragones' Groo: Library,' available from Amazon.com by clicking on the book cover above!   Order 'Will Eisner: A Spirited Life' (2nd Edition) by Bob Andelman, available from Amazon.com by clicking on the book cover above!   The Party Authority in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland!  

Before Stephen Colbert and John Oliver, before Jon Stewart and Conan O'Brien, before "The Simpsons," before David Letterman, before "Saturday Night Live," before The National Lampoon… before all the great subversive American satirists that we've all grown… used to — before all that, there was MAD magazine.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Usual Gang of Idiots (George, Oliver and Giovanna) fight over the merits of Lyric Opera of Chicago's 2016-2017 season, and go on to shred a recent article about elitism in opera: http://harvardpolitics.com/culture/tonight-opera-identity-politics-inequality-opera/ You also get The Two-Minute Drill, Monday Evening Quarterback and Pop Quiz. All for free!

Before Stephen Colbert and John Oliver, before Jon Stewart and Conan O'Brien, before "The Simpsons," before David Letterman, before "Saturday Night Live," before The National Lampoon… before all the great subversive American satirists that we've all grown… used to — before all that, there was MAD magazine.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

200 episodes! Great Googily-Moogily! Surely the lads have a star-studded anniversary extravaganza planned, yes? Well, not quite. Another Previews catalog showed up on their doorsteps, so instead it's time to gaze into the tomorrow of August 2015 and see what catches Mike and Greg's eyes. (You don't get to 200 episodes in less than two years by deviating too much from the schedule...) Luke Cage punches the ocean! Gallery Editions from P. Craig Russell AND Stan Sakai! The Bozz Chronicles! Prez! Ducks galore! Hip-Hop Family Trees! My Hero Academia (plus some other Shonen Jump talk)! Breathtaker! Two Brothers! DC HC/DVD! March Grand Prix! Smart choices for The Usual Gang of Idiots! Plus, how comics fan can live in Okinawa for three years and know less about manga than a fan who never left the East Coast, which Dynamite book is Mike recommending, what DC move gives Greg all the feels, and so much more! Robots From Tomorrow is a weekly comics podcast recorded deep beneath the Earth's surface. You can subscribe to it via iTunes or through the RSS feed at RobotsFromTomorrow.com. You can also follow Mike and Greg on Twitter. This episode is brought to you by Third Eye Comics. Enjoy your funny books.

  After a slight delay (thanks to a crashed hard drive and a lost interview), we're back with a super-sized episode that we hope will make up for our absence.   We're pleased to welcome Tom Richmond, one of the "Usual Gang of Idiots" at . Tom's career has been a most interesting one, and we explore how he managed to take an adolescent aspiration and turn it into an award-winning career at the bible of comedic publications.   During this show, you'll find out how inspiration comes to a creative type who works in his basement of his Minnesota home; the role of Batman and Superman in Tom's career development; how Tom first came to meet Sherlock Holmes (hint: we've had  previously). A good deal of the program will be related to art, comic art, caricature and the visual aspect of Sherlock Holmes, which should interest a Sherlockian art collector like .   Speaking of collecting, you may have noticed the image at the top of this show's entry. That lovely piece of work -  - is available as a limited edition print. Tom talks about his previous experience with  and  prints and how he came to select the eight actors to represent Sherlock Holmes on this print. If you'd like to purchase one, .   Your chance to win big! In addition to giving you the opportunity to purchase one of Tom's prints, we have a listener contest in which you could win one of these highly coveted prints (plus one other special item we mention in the show). How can you make yourself eligible to win? Well, you'll just have to listen to the episode and discover where we lay out the rules. [But it does involve the hashtag #IHOSE65.] The contest is open until August 30, 2014.     A few listener comments - including one that appeared as a message in a bottle (see below) - graced our inboxes this time around.            We selected an original Gas-Lamp to perfectly complement the show: "Art in the Blood," from Vol. 8, No. 2 (April 1958) of the Baker Street Journal.   Links: Limited edition Sherlock Holmes print  Tom's illustration of  and a special version of .  inspired by Tom's work, . Sherlock inspiration in . .  (Amazon.com)  of the Klinger vs. Conan Doyle Estate appeal.  The Attaboy Clarence podcast features  of Sherlock Holmes films and radio plays. Our Father's Day tribute included  in the Beau Ties Ltd. catalog and  from a couple of years back (IHOSE #43).   Please  and be kind enough to leave a rating or review for the show. And please tell a friend about us, in any fashion you feel comfortable.   Your thoughts on the show? Leave a comment below, send us an email, call us at (774) 221-READ (7323) or use the Speakpipe app right here on the site. Connect with us and other interested Sherlockians on  on Google+, ,  and . And of course, our  is a nice collection of links, articles and images.   And above all, please let our sponsors know that you heard us rant and rave about their excellence during the programme: ,  - and one additional surprise sponsor this time around that we think you'll enjoy.   Bonus Material  If you happen to subscribe to our program via our , our , or our , we occasionally throw in bonus content to justify the $1.99 or so that the app stores charge for it. In this case, we've given you a PDF with each one of Tom's Sherlock Holmes characterizations on its own page.   --