Michael Dooley wrote a fantastically entertaining piece in Print about self-appointed “Original Mad Man” George Lois (famous for the iconic Esquire covers he art directed in the 60s), who has lambasted Mad Men and its creator, Matthew Weiner, for the past eight years.
Although Lois’s Big idea is more appropriate to 1960s magazine covers and ads, perhaps some day someone will produce such a TV series. As to what it might look like, Lois provided one scenario in his Playboy tirade: “After hours, when the Sterling Cooper stiffs are screwing their staff, we athletes at PKL were playing ball on the best amateur softball and basketball teams in New York City.”
Mm… no, thanks. But I would tune in for at least a couple of episodes about, say, an art director with a career of habitually stealing credit from others for wildly successful, and even legendary, ad campaigns, magazine designs, etc., especially if sub-plots included that art director’s former partner accusing him of being “the greatest predator of my work,” and worse.
