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RIP Mad Magazine
- Thread starter 48thStreetCustom
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Wow. I hadn't looked at one in 35 years, but that kinda stinks. That sort of low brow humor and sarcasm doesn't really have a home any more. Nor do paper magazines.
I’m sad to see Mad bite the dust, but times change. I am imagining there will be some nice bound copies of Mad classics showing up in bookstores. I am pretty sure there are some around already.
buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
It is no longer a hip (or controversial) to poke fun at convention, as there is a lot less convention, and a lot more in society that is accepted.
RIP What - Me Worry?
I still recall fondly my first years of MAD consumption: film satires like "The Shootiest", "One Cukoo Flew Over the Rest" and "Jaw'd". All circa 1975!
Spy vs Spy was great but I always loved the folding thingy on the back cover.
I still recall fondly my first years of MAD consumption: film satires like "The Shootiest", "One Cukoo Flew Over the Rest" and "Jaw'd". All circa 1975!
Spy vs Spy was great but I always loved the folding thingy on the back cover.
Ahhh, the fold in, Mad’s answer to the fold out. I always enjoyed the parody songs.
The print era seems to be coming to a close. Bloom county has resumed as a facebook only, but that way he doesn't have to produce a weekly strip, does them when the mood strikes him.
Very sad. MAD Magazine contributed to shaping my personality.
He was syndicated for decades , that and volumes of books of the strip plus other merchandising of the characters. I think he's doing OK at this point
People are WAY too sensitive for that kind of humor today.... which is ridiculous in ly view. Welcome to the Divided States of the Offended.
Well they were at the time, I have a bunch of them. Probably more of collector deal now but yes I believe he has a several new ones out recently along with plush toys of Opus and Bill the Cat and signed prints , T-shirts etc. He is also an artist with paintings in galleries
It doesn't help when the commander n' chief uses social media like a 14 year old girl. I don't see older people like me being all that offended by much, seems to be a younger crowd that get the panties in a wad over some stupid comment they read on SM or saw on the eye wetness news outlets.
If this borders on political no no than please remove or ignore. Not trying to be controversial here
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Snowflakes fall on both side of the fence. Or is that wall? The internet killed irony. Humour will be outlawed soon.
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buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
At this point, putting out the comics is free advertising for everything else. He had gone well over a decade without publishing Bloom County/Outland.
When I was reading MAD magazine in the 70's and 80's, it was a leader in "edgy" socio-political satire. But this was when there were very few players on the field, so the competition was pretty sparse. Television everywhere was only 3 network channels (CBS, ABC, and NBC) plus public television (PBS) and a couple of local independents on UHF. Any bit of political satire would need to be run through network executives months ahead of time and they were so timid about offending viewers and losing advertising that anything that anyone could possibly find offensive was forbidden from the airwaves. There were a few notable exceptions, but none of them ever lasted very long.
It's different today. Everybody is expected to criticize everything and authority is the preferred target. This means that nothing is shocking anymore and good, old fashioned satire is boring.
The online satire site "The Onion" is probably the most prominent, and their satire is usually pretty sophisticated. Still, they're hardly a universally known entity like MAD magazine was.
PS. I always enjoyed looking at the tiny, single frame cartoon illustrations that appeared on the margins of most of the pages. They were throwaway gags and could cover virtually any topic, but the vast majority were clever and funny. I like to think that Gary Larson's "Far Side" comics were heavily influenced by these.
