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Going for the Jugular Vein

not_on_display — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 22:11:39 -0800

National Lampoon's 1971 parody of MAD magazine. [via Easily Mused]

Potrzebie? Not so much, any more...

Guy_Inamonkeysuit — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:10:23 -0800

MAD Magazine is another victim of the crappy economy. It's scaling back publication to four times a year... The bad news comes from Steve Heller's Daily Heller. Admittedly MAD isn't what it used to be back in the day, with almost none of the original Gang of Idiots still around to provide the craziness, but even so... can you imagine a world without Alfred E. Newman? I was a bit too young for the comic book version, but when I discovered the magazine around 1958 or so there was no going back. I still think that some of the best comic art and writing ever produced in this country was published in MAD. And how about those LPs?

Nailed With Their Own Hammer

briank — Wed, 13 Nov 2002 08:58:47 -0800

A Mad Parody Of The Onion Well, if this isn't Meta, I don't know what is. Certainly, we all know about The Onion (and, indeed, our consensus is that we don't post Onion links here). The fine fellows at MAD magazine have hoisted the Area Men by their own petard. I hate to say it, 'cuz I think The Onion is often quite funny, but they've got it nailed. (via Heath Row's Media Diet)

Mad Magazine cartoonist David Berg dies at 81.

groundhog — Sat, 25 May 2002 12:06:24 -0800

Mad Magazine cartoonist David Berg dies at 81. One of the "gang of idiots" that were part of the Mad '60's: Sergio Aragones, Don Martin, Antonio Prohias, Mort Drucker, et al.

Ah, well. Another piece of my childhood slips away. What stands out in my mind was that many of his characters bore an uncanny resemblance to my neighbors. But now I'm troubled: did I have a post-modern childhood?