Being Mr. Skin: 20 Years of Nip Slips, Cheek Peeks, and Fast-Forwarding to the Good Parts
About this ebook
Throughout this upward (and outward) saga of Tinseltown T&A triumphs, you’ll get the inside skinny on:
• The first time Mr. Skin appeared on The Howard Stern Show and how he became a regular on the greatest radio program of all time!
• How Judd Apatow turned Mr. Skin into the surprise breakout star of Knocked Up!
• The time, effort, and tissues it takes to track every nude rack and crack in every movie and TV show ever made!
• How some of your favorite actresses feel about being featured on the website—including several Anatomy Award winners!
• The truth about Mr. Skin, The Family Man—There is a real Mrs. Skin and there are three lovely “skinfants.”
• Mr. Skin’s most stunning showcases and shout-outs in top-tier media, including Saturday Night Live, Family Guy, The People’s Choice Awards, American Idol, and The Adam Carolla Show!
• How (and why) Mr. Skin.com became one of the first-ever commercially successful websites.
Throughout it all, Jim’s story amuses and amazes on every page. Being Mr. Skin supplies one-of-a-kind insights into how he transformed an offbeat passion into a popular and profitable phenomenon against all manner of odds—only some of which involve unclothed body parts—all with the help of his dedicated staff, friends, and, yes…even his mom!
Being Mr. Skin is what Jim McBride does, it’s who he is. And now—for the first time in book form—you can enjoy nothing but “the good parts” (no fast-forwarding necessary).
Featuring brand-new comics from Eisner Award nominee Johnny Ryan!
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About the author
Jim McBride, aka Mr. Skin, is the founder and CEO of MrSkin.com and its multimedia parent company SK Holdings. He has appeared on more than 500 radio shows and lives in the Chicago area with Mrs. Skin and their three children. This is, believe it or not, his third book.
Mathew Klickstein is a writer/filmmaker/etc. whose work has appeared in Wired, NY Daily News, and Vulture. His previous books include SLIMED! An Oral History of Nickelodeon's Golden Age and Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons (with original series writer Mike Reiss). His films include Act Your Age: The Kids of Widney High Story, On Your Marc, and Sony Pictures' Against the Dark. He became involved in this sui-generis project after suggesting to his agent that he write a history of Wild Turkey brand bourbon, with his agent asking if he'd instead like take an assignment floating around the office about Mr. Skin. At the time, Mathew had never heard of Mr. Skin and assumed it was a condom company. www.MathewKlickstein.
Johnny Ryan is an Eisner Award-nominated comics artist who grew up in Plymouth, MA near the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant. He is the creator of such legendary underground series as Angry Youth Comix, Blecky Yuckerella, and Prison Pit. His work has appeared in MAD Magazine, Vice Magazine, LA Weekly, Hustler Magazine, The Stranger and, of course, Nickelodeon Magazine. He now lives in Los Angeles and hopes this gig will get him a lifetime pass to MrSkin.com.
