Mad Magazine Pin-up #16 Bubba and Butt-Head by Sam Viviano

Description

Mad Magazine parodies Bill Clinton and Al Gore using Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butthead’s art style!

Sam Viviano (born March 13, 1953 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American caricature artist and art director.

Because of the nature and style of his illustration, he was encouraged by a number of colleagues to show his work to Mad Magazine. Although Viviano’s samples were well-liked, he was told that there were no openings at that magazine, as it was a “closed shop” of about a dozen artists. However, in 1980, he was contacted by Mad Editor Al Feldstein, who told him that their usual cover artist (Norman Mingo) had died, and asked Viviano if he would provide one for the magazine. The cover, Viviano’s first, was for Mad #223 (June 1981).

Advertising Lou Silverstone and Mort Drucker’s take-off Dullus, the cover of #223 depicted actor Larry Hagman in his role of J. R. Ewing from the television series Dallas being shot through the ear with an Alfred E. Neuman-emblazoned flag.

In 1994, Mad editors Nick Meglin and John Ficarra invited Viviano to come on staff at the magazine, but he declined in order to focus on his freelance career. In late 1999, they again extended the invitation, this time for the position of the magazine’s Art director, and Viviano, now the father of a four-year-old girl, accepted. He currently oversees a staff of three that designs, layouts, and produces the art that appears in Mad.

Near mint condition.