Who’s Mad? (Copy)

When i first started working on this piece, it was at the height of the Kendrick Lamar and drake beef. the original sketch is of a kid in a plaid shirt - Good Kid in a MAD city was the vibe i was going for.

I started to wonder about the history behind the mad tv kid. his name, where he’s from, what’s his story.

you can read what i found out about Alfred E Newman aka the MadTV kid

Neuman is the mascot of MAD. He made his magazine debut in 1955, on the cover border of issue #24.

The character's distinct smiling face, gap-toothed smile, freckles, red hair, protruding ears, and scrawny body dates back to late 19th-century advertisements for painless dentistry, also the origin of his "What, me worry?" motto.

that Motto

what me? WORRY?!?!

resonated with me in a pretty petty, quick witted, kind but not nice person hearing this made me laugh. It made me sit the the notion of maybe my smile isn’t from the warmth of safety but the warmth from the excitement of uncertainty.

For whatever happens, i’m not worried

it’s a mad mad world