VIDEO: DUmmie FUnnies Banner Designer Illustrated Current MAD Magazine Cover!!!

YouTube ^ | October 7, 2020 | DUmmie FUnnies

[PJ-Comix]

VIDEO

Since I was a yuuuuuge fan of MAD Magazine when I was a kid (and later), I was incredibly impressed when I found out that the person who designed the DUmmie FUnnies channel banner, Bob Lizarraga, has also illustrated the current cover of MAD Magazine. The current format reprints MAD material from previous issues. Since the current generation of SJW snowflakes would probably have their precious sensibilities offended by satire, the issues now contain a warning label for them which in itself is quite funny.

[PJ-Comix]

The "warning label" might actually be the funniest part of the current magazine although I am looking forward to reading their satires of "Rosemary's Baby" and "Psycho II."

[PJ-Comix]

PING!

[Yo-Yo]

One of my all-time MAD Magazine cartoons. It took me a long time to find it online after remembering reading it back in the day:

[Red Badger]

I thought MM went out of business................

[Yo-Yo]

Oops, the word “favorite” was supposed to be inserted somewhere in that last sentence.

[PJ-Comix]

Well, MAD no longer publishes new material. All reprints (except for the covers) from the past. However, I still enjoy reading their movie satires which is in the current issue.

[IYAS9YAS]

I had that issue! Man I loved Mad Magazine.

[wildbill]

I starteed reading MAD when it was a comic book. I had everyone of those from when I started until I went away to college in 1957. I left them in my mother’s garage and they were stolen by some kids.

Sad day of my young life when I heard about it.

[PJ-Comix]

After it switched to magazine format in 1955, it no longer was regulated by the absurd Comic Books Code so it could get away with a lot more.

[PJ-Comix]

For me MAD Magazine was like a lifeline to a funnier alternate universe. Don Martin was my favorite cartoonist.

[wildbill]

Yeah, but I never thought the magazine was as funny. Perhaps it served a deeper purpose in the satire in moving forward, but when You are a kid, you don’t appreciate it as much or try to analyze it.

[Dr. Sivana]

After it switched to magazine format in 1955, it no longer was regulated by the absurd Comic Books Code so it could get away with a lot more.

The Comics Code Authority was NOT absurd. It was a response to a real problem. It’s gone now, and comic books are no longer suitable cor the youngsters who had been its original audience.

[Disambiguator]

Don Martin was my favorite cartoonist.

Fwaddapp!

[Disambiguator]

https://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2014/07/15/whats-your-don-martin-sound-effect-name

[ArtDodger]

I thought they were kaput, too. Just found a stash of them in my basement from way back. Earliest seems to be about 1961 Has a huge poster of Al E. Neuman for president.
Not worth too much but maybe my kid can cash in on them in the years to come.

[luvie]

WARNING: This magazine might just make you laugh. We know
it's an unknown emotion for you, but it doesn't hurt. Might help.

[Red Badger]

https://www.sellmycomicbooks.com/mad-magazine.html

[PJ-Comix]

The Comics Code Authority was NOT absurd. It was a response to a real problem. It’s gone now, and comic books are no longer suitable cor the youngsters who had been its original audience.

Actually it was quite absurd. The one who instigated the Comics Code Authority was a nutty shrink who wrote "Seduction of the Innocent" who due to him being a sort of mental case saw all kinds of things in the comics that few others ever noticed. After that Code kicked in, comics became very bland.

[PJ-Comix]

Books of Don Martin cartoons now sell for hundreds of dollars. Check Amazon.

[Dr. Sivana]

After that Code kicked in, comics became very bland.

There was no code in the '40s, because there was no need for a code at the time. Other than some racily drawn superheroines and characters (e.g. Phantom Lady), the raciness, violence and gore that marked the early '50s was not accepted on the newsstands and drugstore racks.

When the key market was children, it is not absurd to have boundaries, just as it is not absurd to have R movies today, as the Hayes Code weakened and was ultimately abandoned.

During this "bland" era, Spiderman, and most of the modern Marvel universe was created, as well as the entire Silver Age edition of DC characters. The other genres (Science Fiction, War, Romance, Humor, Funny Animals) went on mostly as before. Horror and crime comics were the main casualties, and some of those went to magazines and paperback books.

"Seduction of the Innocent" was not the only proximate cause to the crackdown. If you look at pre-code Whiz Comics from the early 1950's you will note that Captain Marvel stories already had an affirmation from a Jesuit priest that this individual comic book was acceptable reading. Not quite an Imprimatur, or even a Code but a response to a demand from clergy, priests and parents.

I will take the blandness (and often "weirdness") of Mort Weisinger-era Superman over the PC version we have post-Code.

The old code was upfront and clear, and aspired to relative purity and basic American values. The new one is just as restrictive, but unspoken and subversive.

I guess it was just a matter of time before Dr. Sivana and "PJ-Comix" would have conflict on such a topic.