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The World According to Mad Magazine

by MagicPropmaker on 7/13/19, 8:44 AM with 5 comments

• by cobbzilla on 7/14/19, 1:16 PM

  an article about the demise of Mad from a publication that was regularly in its crosshairs. nicely ironic.

  here’s some alternative coverage: https://reason.com/2019/07/04/mad-magazine-is-dead/

• by Stratoscope on 7/14/19, 3:57 PM

  Related discussion:

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20351524

  And a tribute to Al Jaffee, who has been with MAD for 54 years and at the age of 98 still does every fold-in:

  https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2017/03/al-jaffee-the-gen...

• by syphilis2 on 7/14/19, 3:23 PM

  I love the CD collection, and hope there's some plan to make a new version with the remaining issues.

  MAD is better than any history book in that it gives a view to how people really felt about events at the time. It also records minutia in its jokes that otherwise become forgotten after decade go by.

  In general it's good to read old humor if only to see how slowly things change. The Realist has their archive online and it's a good read because much of it is still relevant from 1958: http://www.ep.tc/realist/

• by kingludite on 7/14/19, 1:53 PM

  Is there is some effort to keep MAD going? I learn everything I know from this magazine.