Posted on 05/12/2019 3:47:56 AM PDT by Enterprise
And how is it that a man who wants to be President of the United States had to google one of the most recognized American cultural icons of all time?
Mad should take advantage of this opportunity to reintroduce themselves to a new audience. I clicked on their website and it was pretty weak, little more than a platform to order past issues.
MAD Magazine was fantastic. I started reading it around 11, and it opened my eyes to satirical humor and much, much more. It always felt like I was getting away with something— that it was just a slight bit subversive, and that my parents wouldn’t understand. Some great writers and artists there. The “Fold-Ins”. Spy vs. Spy. Al Jaffe strips. All wonderful and clean stuff for a young man to enjoy and ponder before grabbing his sling shot and/or fishing rod and/or BB gun, and heading out on his Sting-Ray for a day of completely unsupervised summer fun. (We of a certain age were truly blessed, weren’t we?)
The “Fold-Ins”,,,
Yup,
All that Goofy stuff!
Alfred E. Neuman is smarter than Pete. MAD Magazine insult all people...Their parodies are funny...
he even got the eyes properly off balance
>>once Pete looked up who Alfred E. Neuman was.
Pete’s out of touch “what the f-— is the internet” moment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2LpJAD5AqQ
With Democrat Veep candidate Estes Kefauver responsible for the death of EC Comics with a Senate investigation into comic books, it was unlikely that Bill Gaines would “support” the Rats in 1956. I guess that’s why Alfred E. Neuman was the suggested “write-in” candidate.
Time-Warner relaunched Mad Magazine (restarted the numbering at #1) a few years ago and took advertising (which Bill Gaines refused, saying he wouldn’t want to mock Pepsi while accepting a corporate ad from Coca-Cola in the same issue).
The magazine never stopped publishing but like all things modern, they did a reboot.
It didn’t take you too long to get to the bottom of it...
More than we ever knew.
IT'S HOWDY DOODY TIME!
My first business venture was selling my older brother’s mad magazines from a Radio Flyer wagon when I was 5 years old.
Bookmark
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Where is the “IND” betweem M and A?
Ha! Has he forgiven you yet?
That would work too!
That was my belief at the time. MAD didn’t spare ANYONE!
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