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John Ficarra (born ca. 1956) is an American publishing figure. He was hired as assistant editor of the American satire magazine Mad in 1980, shortly after his debut as a contributing writer.
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- Working in The Nickel Industry and Creative Fulfillment
- Writing For Comedy Legend Rodney Dangerfield
- Mad Magazine’s Transition to Color
- Tiptoeing Into The Color Market
- Charlie Hebdo and Creative Expression
- Advertising’S Impact on Content
- Mad Magazine’s Digital Future
- Is Digital Disposable?
- Mad Magazine’s Future: 20 Years from Now
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FanSided.com – Nir Regev: We’re here with Mad Magazine’s John Ficarra! The first question I want to ask you is I know that after you graduated from NYU, you worked in the nickel industry for a while. *John smiles* John Ficarra – MAD Magazine:Wow, you have done your homework! FS: Yeah, I was wondering, especially on a personal level, before you were...
FS: I was just about to ask you, what was it like working with Rodney Dangerfield? Ficarra:He was great, very responsive, very honest. I’ll never forget the first time that I sent a joke to him. I sent some jokes to his restaurant in Manhattan, I didn’t even know where I could reach him. I was in my bedroom one night, still living with my parents. ...
FS: In the early 2000s you decided to move MAD Magazine into the world of color, finally. I’ve seen that you wrote that it looked like something that came out of a third world country for a lot of years. Ficarra: That was Joe Raiola, one of my editors lines. *laughs*“It looks like it was printed in Mexico in 1959”, is the exact quote. FS: How do yo...
Ficarra:We tiptoed into the color market, I think when we started doing the MAD 20. Where we would do a 12 or 20-page section of color, and it immediately just opened it up. Also, at the same time, computers were really starting to barge in now. Now Photoshop was becoming a thing, a real tool you could play with. A lot of our fans thought that afte...
FS: I’ve seen you comment on what happened a few years ago at Charlie Hebdo, about the whole incident and how it effects creative expression. I’m curious especially now, because it’s more of a PC age these days, does that restrict the world at MAD at all? Ficarra: Well, Charlie Hebdo, as much as I supported them, and I did a lot of press for them, ...
FS: Is there a big pull from advertising sometimes, has there ever been an incident where something had to be pulled? Ficarra:No, no. Well, first of all advertising hasn’t been that robust ever since the crash. Print advertising has pretty much gone away and it’s gone into the web, but we’ve never had that problem. Now, we may have advertisers that...
FS: How do you feel about social media with MAD? In general with the whole digital comics thing, do you think that has a future, or it’s always gonna remain mostly in print? Do you think maybe print is fading away and the digital platform will take over eventually? Ficarra:I think it’s gonna be both. I certainly hope print stays around, I’m an old ...
FS: Do you feel then that digital comics in some ways is more disposable? When you actually hold a physical thing in your hand you have more of a reason to keep it, but this you can kind of click it off. Ficarra:Maybe … I never thought about it but that might be true. The other thing is there’s so much on digital now and it all seems so disposable....
FS: Where do you see, or where would you like to see MAD in 20 years from now? Ficarra:Well, I certainly hope it’s still in print. I hope that the magazine business continues to rebound because for a while it was really very tough. I do believe that print is coming back just like vinyl came back. I think print will come back, the problem is you nee...
Learn about John Ficarra's career as a comedy writer and editor of MAD Magazine, from his early days in the nickel industry to his vision of colorizing the iconic parody publication. Find out how he worked with legends like Rodney Dangerfield and Harvey Kurtzman, and how he adapted to the changing landscape of satire and comedy.
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