What, me worry? RIP Mad

[HanSenSE]

Or so it appears. Sourcing sounds like an "insider" calling into sports talk with details of a big trade, but ...

MAD Magazine to Cease Publication

 

[Corky Ramirez up on 94th St.]

Appears that way:
Mad Magazine, as you now know it, will soon cease to exist

Sad. I pored over this magazine in high school. Loved it. Granted, I haven't seen one in 25 years, but this was a big part of my childhood.

 

[DanOregon]

I usually grab the year in review issue sold around the holidays - still as funny as ever.

 

[Azrael]

Hugely influential comic anarchy. Several generations of postwar American artists owe it a great debt of gratitude.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

It hasn’t been relevant for decades
Doesn’t matter

The End of the MADness

 

[maumann]

Eech, bleech and yeech!

I think when I subscribed to it, it was 35 cents an issue (CHEAP!). Most of the time, the movie parody was better than the movie itself, even if I was too young to go see it. Spy vs. Spy. Hawks and Doves. The back page fold-in. The usual cast of idiots. Alfred E. Neuman. No more Horrifying Cliches!

Most of us coming of age after Woodstock probably got our sarcastic, sardonic view of the world from MAD Magazine. I know MAD, Bugs Bunny, Get Smart and Laugh-In provided most of the "intelligent" humor I'm known for to this day. And why it flies right over the heads of most people I know!

 

[typefitter]

 

[heyabbott]

I loved MAD and read it religiously every summer from age 8-14.

 

[Starman]

I read it solidly from 1966-75 or so (age 8-17). Catholic school nuns seemed to think it was one step away from absolute smut.

 

[Huggy]

Eech, bleech and yeech!

I think when I subscribed to it, it was 35 cents an issue (CHEAP!). Most of the time, the movie parody was better than the movie itself, even if I was too young to go see it. Spy vs. Spy. Hawks and Doves. The back page fold-in. The usual cast of idiots. Alfred E. Neuman. No more Horrifying Cliches!

Most of us coming of age after Woodstock probably got our sarcastic, sardonic view of the world from MAD Magazine. I know MAD, Bugs Bunny, Get Smart and Laugh-In provided most of the "intelligent" humor I'm known for to this day. And why it flies right over the heads of most people I know!

Don Martin Dept.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Closest I ever got to be being bullied as a little kid was when a 13-year-old in my neighborhood "coerced" me into selling him my entire 50-issue collection for $1.

 

[Neutral Corner]

I still vividly remember one of Sergio Aragones' little marginal comics. It's of a trapeze artist who has just leaned into his drop off of his perch. He is bare chested, and one toe of his tights is stretched out behind him, hung on a nail. One hand is on the trapeze and the other is clutching the waistband of his tights as he hangs suspended between the bar and the perch.

The look of absolute desperation on his face, little beads of sweat flying off of him as he tries to decide which to let go of... I don't know how the artist got all that into a little comic half an inch tall.

I remember singing Mad's parody lyrics to various patriotic songs and pissing my dad off royally with them.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

There's a Don Martin that sticks with me to this day

A man walks by a building and under a sign "Fonebone's Eyeglasses", complete with a big pair of glasses
Next: "Fonebone's Wigs", with a large wig on the sign
Then: "Fonebone's Shoes", featuring a large shoe
He turns the corner and sees a giant Don Martin in his underwear wearing the wig, shoes and glasses, holding a sign that says "Fonebone".

 

[Batman]

I got into Mad as a 12-13-year-old in the late 80s, for maybe a year or two. One of the articles that always stuck with me -- especially in 2016 -- was from 1989 called, "Headlines we'll never see," and one of them was "Cubs, Indians set for World Series."
God, I wish I still had that issue.

 

[Starman]

Mad Magazine was pretty much the literary background to the swinging "Mad Men" suburban Sixties.

It was produced with a definite New York sensibility. Even as a grade school kid in Michigan I could pick that up.

I loved the movie parodies and the Dave Berg "Lighter Side" series.

 

[Ookpik]

Robert Boyd of the Los Angeles Times said it best about Mad Magazine. From Wikipedia:

"Plenty of it went right over my head, of course, but that's part of what made it attractive and valuable. Things that go over your head can make you raise your head a little higher.

The magazine instilled in me a habit of mind, a way of thinking about a world rife with false fronts, small print, deceptive ads, booby traps, treacherous language, double standards, half truths, subliminal pitches and product placements; it warned me that I was often merely the target of people who claimed to be my friend; it prompted me to mistrust authority, to read between the lines, to take nothing at face value, to see patterns in the often shoddy construction of movies and TV shows; and it got me to think critically in a way that few actual humans charged with my care ever bothered to."

I read Mad Magazine in the 1970's and often reference it.

 

[HanSenSE]

The thread in Sports and News is getting more action, and deservedly so. Mods, please delete.

 

[BTExpress]

I vividly remember National Gorilla Suit Day as a kid. That one mesmerized be because of all the horrible outcomes Fester encountered.

 

[Moderator1]

Spy vs. Spy - loved it as a kid. Wasn't there a movie a couple of years back?

 

[DanOregon]

Jack Davis, Dave Berg's "Lighter Side" , the movie spoofs - genius. Probably made me the huge fan that I am of editorial cartoons.