Mad #467
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeMad #467 is a snapshot of the magazine doing exactly what it had done for over fifty years — ambushing a summer blockbuster at the peak of its cultural moment — but it earned a small, documented footnote in the magazine's history when Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert addressed the issue's parody of their respective shows on air, creating a rare cross-media feedback loop where the satirists became the satirized. For collector-historians, the issue is also a production milestone: artist Tom Richmond has publicly documented that his 'Rejected Characters from Cars' feature was his first piece for MAD executed entirely in digital finals rather than physical inking, marking the magazine's quiet transition toward digital art workflows. Beyond those specifics, #467 carries no landmark firsts or character debuts; its significance lies in the ordinary excellence of mid-2000s Mad operating at full stride.
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The issue was assembled by E.C. Publications, Inc. — Mad's long-standing corporate imprint — and published in July 2006, timed to Pixar's Cars, which had opened in wide release the previous month. Cover art was handled by Mark Fredrickson, a frequent cover contributor of the era. The 'Rejected Characters from Cars' interior piece, written by Jacob Lambert, is the best-documented feature: Tom Richmond has recounted in his own blog that he produced the final art digitally in Photoshop over scanned pencils rather than through his customary bristol-board inking, completing the work while traveling to the San Francisco Bay Area for a family wedding.
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- Published July 2006 by E.C. Publications, Inc. (Mad's corporate imprint); 58 pages in standard magazine format.
- Cover painted by Mark Fredrickson; concept: 'We flatten Cars,' a parody of Pixar's Cars (released June 2006).
- Interior feature 'Rejected Characters from Cars' written by Jacob Lambert with art by Tom Richmond — confirmed by Richmond as his first all-digital finished artwork for the magazine.
- Issue includes caricatures or satirical treatments of Jon Stewart, Lewis Black, Owen Wilson, and Larry the Cable Guy among its pop-culture targets.
- Two issues later, Mad #469 (September 2006) reprinted stills from a Daily Show on-air exchange in which Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert responded directly to the #467 parody — an unusual instance of the magazine's targets publicly acknowledging and reacting to a specific Mad piece.
- Comedy Central archived the Stewart/Colbert on-air segment referencing the issue, providing independent corroboration of its modest cultural footprint.
- Regular contributors to the issue include Desmond Devlin, Charlie Kadau, Kevin Pope, Ray Alma, Teresa Burns Parkhurst, Glen LeLievre, Tom Cheney, and Patrick Merrel, among others — representative of Mad's broad 2006 stable.
- Key Collector Comics lists no key-issue designation for Mad #467; it carries no recorded first appearances or landmark story developments.
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Reprinted in Mad About Super Heroes #[nn] (2012), Mad #29 (2023), Mad #44 (2025), Mad #49 (2026)
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