GARY HALLGREN

Active: 1981–2025

AS WRITER

AS ARTIST

KEY ISSUES

SERIES

Gary Hallgren is an American illustrator and underground cartoonist. Illustrations by Hallgren have been "commissioned by publications such as The New York Times, Men's Health, The Wall Street Journal, Mad, and Entertainment Weekly, among others."

Bio adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

NOTABLE WORKS: KEY ISSUES

MAD

#504

Earliest catalogued appearance of Bebop.

MAD

#503

Earliest catalogued appearance of Whiplash (Vanko).

MAD

#396

Earliest catalogued appearance of Kate Lockley.

MAD

#501

Earliest catalogued appearance of Kim Kardashian.

MAD

#450

Earliest catalogued appearances of Jon Stewart and Sean Hannity.

SERIES · BY ISSUES CREDITED

MAD

1952

20 credited issues

Crazy Magazine

1973

1 credited issue

MAD Magazine

2018

1 credited issue

FREQUENT COLLABORATORS · TOP 8

Issues where both are credited as writer or artist

Peter Kuper 21 issues together Sergio Aragonés 21 issues together Al Jaffee 20 issues together Hermann Mejia 20 issues together Desmond Devlin 19 issues together Dick Debartolo 17 issues together Tom Richmond 15 issues together Jeff Kruse 14 issues together

CHARACTERS · TOP 10

Appearing most often in their credited issues

Alfred E. Neuman Black Spy White Spy Barack Obama Hillary Clinton Sarah Palin Monroe (MAD)Donald Trump Bill Clinton Calvin (Watterson)

All (22)Writer (2)Artist (21)Keys (5)

21 ISSUES

Crazy Magazine

#78

MAD

#396

MAD

#415

MAD

#420

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#450

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#458

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#485

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#489

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#492

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#501

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#502

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#503

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#504

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#505

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#512

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#519

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#525

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#537

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#541

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#542

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#543