There’s been a lot of hubbub recently because Yale University Press is releasing a book called “The Cartoons That Shook The World” and chose not to reprint the infamous Mohammed cartoon. All of which reminded me…
A couple of years ago the MAD editors send out a possible subject list for the annual “MAD 20″* to their writers. One of the subjects was the Mohammed cartoon…but they did not want any drawings of Mohammed to be part of the piece. I wrote up an idea based on the old matchbook advertisement “Can You Draw The Pirate?” which had a drawing of a pirate that you were supposed to copy. This would have been “Can You Draw Mohammed?”…and the rest of the matchbook would be blank.
It didn’t fly.
* The 20 dumbest people or events of the year
Tags: comics, humor, MAD Magazine
Kovaleski (the blog of a cartoonist named John) 
October 7, 2009 at 7:41 am
Your matchbook idea was inspired! Now I’m sad that I’ll never see it. Even though I would have never seen it anyway. Since it would be blank.
October 7, 2009 at 10:50 pm
It had brilliance in its non-existence.
October 15, 2009 at 1:41 pm
I agree! Utter brilliance! Too bad these things make people too nervous.
October 15, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Yep, it is too bad.