Description
Harry North is the only artist to contribute original material to both US and British versions of MAD.
North was doing low-key work at IPC, once Britain’s largest comic producer, before an opportunity with Look In prompted Harry to go free-lance in 1971,with features including On the Buses, ALF and more.
North was drawing MAD-like film spoofs in colour for Asterix creator René Goscinny in Pilote when spotted by US MAD’s John Putnam and others.
He moved from Britain to New York in 2004, and has worked for ad agency Ogilvy & Mather and others.
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Harry´s Popular Contributions
Contributions by Harry North

MAD Magazine #187December 1976
- The Bauble Hymn of the Republic (Artist with Frank Jacobs)
Department: Buy-Centennial
MAD Magazine #190April 1977
- Top Secret Minutes of Top Secret Meetings (Artist with Tom Koch)
Department: Exposed Nerds
MAD Magazine #191June 1977
- The Devil with Carter? (Artist)
- A Mad Treasury of Shakespeare's Lesser Known Quotes (Artist with Dennis Snee)
Department: Going Over Bard - Sobsession (Artist with Larry Siegel)
Department: Seeing is Bereaving
MAD Magazine #193September 1977
- The Mad Travel Agency's Specialized Tours for You and Your Neurosis (Artist with Stan Hart)
Department: Sick Transit Gloriously
MAD Magazine #194October 1977
- If Today's Sex Symbols Weren't in Show Biz (Artist with Lou Silverstone)
Department: A Star Is Shorn
MAD Magazine #195December 1977
- Handicaps in Other Fields (Artist with Adam Garst, Larry Siegel)
- The Paranoiac's Seven Day Tour of Japan (Artist with Stan Hart)
Department: The Mad Travel Agency's Specialized Tours for You and Your Neurosis
MAD Magazine #196January 1978
- Star Roars (Artist with Dick DeBartolo, Larry Siegel)
- Mad's Literary Agent of the Year (Artist with Lou Silverstone)
MAD Magazine #197March 1978
- Mad Close-Ups (Artist with Paul Peter Porges)
Department: Telescopic Eye-Sore
MAD Magazine #198April 1978
- Ten Little Businessmen (Artist with Frank Jacobs)
Department: There Goes the Neighborhood
MAD Magazine #200July 1978
- Graduating Class Pictures as Staged by Some of the World's Best-Known Picture-Makers (Artist with Paul Peter Porges)
Department: Awful Assembly
MAD Magazine #203December 1978
- Why Battle with Common, Vulgar Clods at the Newsstand for Your Copy of Mad... When You Can... Subscribe (Artist)
- A Seven Day Tour of Israel for the Guilt-ridden (Artist with Stan Hart)
Department: The Mad Travel Agency's Specialized Tours for You and Your Neurosis
MAD Magazine #204January 1979
- Clones of the Future (Artist with Paul Peter Porges)
- Clones of the Past (Artist with Paul Peter Porges)
MAD Magazine #207June 1979
- The Mad Success Primer of the '70's or How to Succeed Without Working (Artist with Lou Silverstone)
MAD Magazine #208July 1979
- Mad Explores the TV Ratings System (Artist with Larry Siegel)
Department: Ralph Raider
MAD Magazine #210October 1979
- The Mad Nasty Book [Volume One] (Artist with Tom Koch)
Department: The Mad Nasty Book
MAD Magazine #212January 1980
- Mad's "Children's Movie Producer of the Year" (Artist with Lou Silverstone)
Department: Chipped Cahter
MAD Magazine #213March 1980
MAD Magazine #214April 1980
- Mad's "Necromania Agent" of the Year (Artist with Lou Silverstone)
Department: John Revoltya
MAD Magazine #215June 1980
- A Mad Look at the Future with the Energy Crunch (Artist with Paul Peter Porges)
Department: A Mad Look at
MAD Magazine #216July 1980
- A Mad Collection of Some Very Rare Famous Family Album Rejects (Artist with Paul Peter Porges)
Department: A Mad Collection
MAD Magazine #217September 1980
- Some Mad Examples of Celebrities High-Value Insurance Policies (Artist with Dennis Snee)
- Just Once, Wouldn't You Like To (Artist with Dick DeBartolo)
MAD Magazine #218October 1980
- The Mad Nasty Book Volume Two (Artist with Tom Koch)
Department: The Mad Nasty Book
MAD Magazine #222April 1981
- A Mad Look at Some... Not-So-Famous Last Words (Artist with Paul Peter Porges)
Department: A Mad Look at
MAD Magazine #226October 1981
- Thought Patterns for Real-Life Every-Day Situations (Artist with Frank Jacobs)
Department: Balloony Tunes
MAD Magazine #227December 1981
- A Mad Survey of Today's Living, Showing Why... You Can't Win! (Artist with Larry Siegel)
Department: A Mad Survey
MAD Magazine #228January 1982
- The 1981 Night Before Christmas or A Final Visit From St. Nicholas (Artist with Frank Jacobs)
MAD Magazine #229March 1982
- A Mad Report on Progress (Artist with Lou Silverstone)
Department: A Mad Report on Progress
MAD Magazine #230April 1982
- The "Star Wars" Log: The Master Plan for Future Space Films (Artist with Frank Jacobs)
MAD Magazine #231June 1982
- Cover Artist
- Front Cover (Artist)
- The Mad Nasty Book Volume Three (Artist with Tom Koch)
MAD Magazine #232July 1982
- Mad Looks in on Public Television (Artist with Larry Siegel)
Department: Denounce the Pretention
MAD Magazine #236January 1983
- If You Think Things Are...Bad Well, They Could be...Worse In Fact They Could Be...Downright Horrible (Artist with Tom Koch)
Department: Topical Satire
MAD Magazine #237March 1983
- If They Passed Other "Truth In..." Laws (Artist with Stan Hart)
Department: Unforked Tongue-in-Cheek
MAD Magazine #238April 1983
- Mad's Suggestions for How Our Cities can Solve Their Problems (Artist with Fred Block, Dick DeBartolo)
Department: Urban on the Rocks
MAD Magazine #240July 1983
- The Evolution of a TV Situation Comedy (Artist with Tom Koch)
Department: Expanse Account
MAD Magazine #241September 1983
- The Mad Nasty Book, Volume Four (Artist with Tom Koch)
Department: Along the Snide Lines
MAD Magazine #242October 1983
- Poetic Tributes To People Who Wouldn't Ordinarily Get Them (Artist with Frank Jacobs)
Department: Mad Poetry
MAD Magazine #244January 1984
- Famous Quotations - - and How the People Back Then Reacted to Them (Artist with Frank Jacobs)
Department: Past-Asides
MAD Magazine #247June 1984
- Mad's List of Runners-Up for "The Three Biggest Lies in America" (Artist with John Ficarra)
Department: Turning Back the Crock
MAD Magazine #248July 1984
- More Ads We Never Got to See (Artist with Dick DeBartolo)
Department: Ads Backwards
MAD Magazine #250October 1984
- The Mad Nasty Book, Volume Five (Artist with Tom Koch)
Department: Along the Snide Lines
MAD Magazine #251December 1984
- Only in the Middle of the Night... (Artist with Tom Koch)
Department: No Rest for the Leery
MAD Magazine #252January 1985
- The Evolution of the Species, Updated (Artist with Chris Hart)
Department: Darwinners and Losers
MAD Magazine #253March 1985
- Mad Multiplex (Artist with Sam Viviano, Angelo Torres, Arnie Kogen)
Department: Deja Review - Mad's Lurid Romantic Textbooks (Artist with Tom Koch)
Department: Hot Off the Press
MAD Magazine #254April 1985
- Red Topple And... Night Time Takes A Mad Look At Rock Video (Artist with Dick DeBartolo)
Department: P.M.-T.V.
MAD Magazine #256July 1985
- Mad's Really Perplexing Mysteries Of Life (Artist with Mike Snider)
Department: Whys Up
MAD Magazine #258October 1985
- The Computer Company President of the Year (Artist with Dick DeBartolo)
Department: In the Chips
MAD Magazine #265September 1986
- Video Maladies (Artist with Don Edwing)
Department: VCR - At the Bedside, Part I (Artist with Charlie Kadau)
Department: Departing Shots
MAD Magazine #266October 1986
- How P B S Really Differs From Commercial TV (Artist with Tom Koch)
Department: How Now High Brow
MAD Magazine #271June 1987
- Announcing the Crank'em Out Mint Professional Wrestling Chess Set (Artist with John Ficarra)
MAD Magazine #274October 1987
- Abra-Cadaver (Artist with Don Edwing)
Department: Wake Watchers Part 1 - The Plot Sickens (Artist with Don Edwing)
Department: Wake Watchers
MAD Magazine #277March 1988
- If "They" Had To Fill Out "Your" Questionnaires (Artist with Tom Koch)
Department: Ask Kickers
MAD Magazine #278April 1988
- Mad's Instant Guide To Zodiac Types (Artist with Frank Jacobs)
Department: A Bad Case of Constellation
MAD Magazine #279June 1988
- A Mad Look At Real-Life Government "Logic" (Artist with Mike Snider)
Department: None Dare Call It Reason
MAD Magazine #280July 1988
- Mad's Plan For Improving Movie Theatres (Artist with Frank Jacobs)
Department: Gall of the House Of Ushers
MAD Magazine #286April 1989
- When TV Commercials Make Full Use of the Beatles Songs (Artist with Frank Jacobs)
Department: "I Am the Ad Man"
MAD Magazine #290October 1989
- Did You Ever Notice That the Same People Who… (Artist with Lou Silverstone)
Department: Hypocritic Oafs
MAD Magazine #296July 1990
- Greeting Cards For People We Don't Even Know (Artist with Tom Koch)
Department: Strangers In The Write
MAD Magazine #299December 1990
- Mad Examines Some Cave Writings of Prehistoric Man (Artist with Frank Jacobs)
Department: Humor in a Monolithic Vein
MAD Magazine #302April 1991
- MAD’s Lifetime Chart of Wasted Time (Artist with Desmond Devlin)
Department: As the Clock Schticks Away
MAD Magazine #306October 1991
- Un-Learning Adult Education Courses (Artist with Tom Koch)
Department: Applying For a Scholar-Snip
MAD Magazine #308January 1992
- Still More Runners-Up To "The Three Biggest Lies In America" (Artist with John Prete)
Department: Truth Decay
MAD Magazine #311June 1992
- It Never Works But You Gotta Try... (Artist with Mike Snider)
Department: Back To The Futile
MAD Magazine #323December 1993
- MAD's Neighborhood Dining Roundup (Artist with Bob Bramble)
Department: Eats Meets Jest
MAD Magazine #500June 2009
- MAD issues 101-200 "Days of triumph, nights of turpitude" (Author with Max Brandel, Norman Mingo, Earle Doud, Bob Muccio, Paul Coker, Jr., Semi, George Woodbridge, Mort Drucker, Bob Clarke, Don Martin, Angelo Torres, Phil Hahn, Gilbert Barnhill, Dave Berg, May Sakami, Dick DeBartolo, Al Jaffee, Antonio Prohias, Larry Siegel, Neal Barbera, Sidney Paulson, Sergio Aragonés, Jack Davis, Jack Rickard, Frank Jacobs)
- MAD issues 201-300 "Snatched glory and bruised knuckles" (Author with Paul Peter Porges, Joe Raiola, Irving Schild, Sam Viviano, Larry Siegel, Charlie Kadau, Dick DeBartolo, Don Edwing, Phil Hahn, Paul Coker, Jr., Carolyn Abram, Frank Jacobs, Thomas Hachtman, Don Martin, Angelo Torres, Greg Theakston, George Woodbridge, Jack Davis, Mort Drucker, Tom Koch, Arnie Kogen, John Ficarra, Dave Berg, Gerry Gersten, Harvey Kurtzman, Antonio Prohias, Jack Rickard, Bob Clarke, Richard Williams, Desmond Devlin, Stan Hart, Bill Elder, Sergio Aragonés, Rick Tulka, Russ Cooper, John Pound, Al Jaffee)
Department: MAD issues 201-300 "Snatched glory and bruised knuckles"















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