MAD Magazine no more new content

[dado potato]

Looks like the end of the line for MAD Magazine.

I enjoyed "Spy vs Spy". Alfred E. Neuman is indelibly stamped in my cerebral cortex... to this day I compare tykes to the cartoon image of him. And truly, when the Fit hits the Shan, I am wont to say, "What? Me Worry?"

MAD Magazine was pulp satire. Pulp, as in pulp & paper, as in printed periodicals.

Consumers of satire today can click on videos of Steven Colbert and John Oliver, among others. It's there in real time on a device. POOF.

[razz]

I did read of its demise but had never got into reading it regularly. A lot of printed material is fading away.

[iris lilies]

I was part of the Mad Magazine generation. I never really liked it. I tried to like it but I thought it was pretty dumb.

Once I went for a job interview and the head honcho picked me up at the airport. The person who set up the interview via phone told me “ you’ll know him when you see him at the airport because he looks like Alfred E. Newman.” . And the man did sort of look like him.

[JaneV2.0]

I'll miss it. It introduced me to tentacle and tire pizza and recalcitrant plebney. Also, foldover feet and foldover covers.

[iris lilies]

I'll miss it. It introduced me to tentacle and tire pizza and recalcitrant plebney. Also, foldover feet and foldover covers.
WTH are those things. Guess I missed quite a bit.

[jp1]

OMG the foldover covers were always hilarious! But I'm remembering them from my teenage years and don't actually remember any specific ones so it may be that they were at a level of humor that worked for 14-16 year old boys...

[catherine]

MAD Magazine was forbidden fruit when I was a kid because my father wouldn't allow me to read comic books of any kind, but I would always read my friends' copies and LOVED them. I still remember some of the cartoons and comics in it that made me laugh.

So I'm a bit bummed.

[rosarugosa]

I was so sad to hear this. MAD magazine played an enormous role in shaping my outlook on life, my sense of humor and helped to make me the woman I am today, for better or for worse. I believe I subscribed from ages 8 - 18, at which point I "graduated" to National Lampoon.

[LDAHL]

I will miss Mad. It was about pure silliness. Today’s TV clowns all seem to have an agenda. Sort of like watching your high school social studies teacher trying to be funny.

[JaneV2.0]

My parents were clearly neglectful--I read everything I could get my hands on from a tender age, and among my favorite reads were comics--Tarzan and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. :cool: But I read encyclopedias for fun too; maybe that made up for it.

[Alan]

But I read encyclopedias for fun too; ....
Me too, in the early to mid 60's I read through our pre-WWII edition of Encyclopedia Britannica, so by Junior High School I was a fount of outdated information such as the major economic output of French Upper Volta.

I'm distressed by the OP's assertion (perhaps realistically) that today's satire can be found in the performances of late night TV personalities. Future generations will be poorer if that is true. MAD magazine will be remembered long after those guys are forgotten.

[JaneV2.0]

Me too, in the early to mid 60's I read through our pre-WWII edition of Encyclopedia Britannica, so by Junior High School I was a fount of outdated information such as the major economic output of French Upper Volta.

... .

Yeah--the encyclopedias I grew up with were as old as the Dead Sea Scrolls. They were illustrated with etchings.

I feel immense gratitude for today's richly illustrated books. Some areas of life have improved immeasurably.

[oldhat]

All things must pass, I guess. Mad had a huge impact on shaping my sensibilities from ages around 10-15 (which is about when Playboy took over). I devoured not only the monthly magazine but the paperback reprints from the 50s. I think it's safe to say that if you were a middle-class white boy growing up in the 50s and 60s, you couldn't escape the influence of Mad.

Adios, Superduperman, Starchie, and Star Blecch! It was a simpler time (and in many ways a better one).

[KayLR]

My favorite features were "The Lighter Side of...." and "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions." MAD was my tween and teen companion. I got caught with it several times when I was supposed to be reading the book I was hiding it in.

I think it shaped me into the sarcastic little brat my parents grounded on a regular basis.

[rosarugosa]

I was a voracious reader, and I guess my parents deserve credit for being supportive of me reading anything and everything. I'm pretty sure an 8 year-old didn't get a magazine subscription without some adult assistance.

[iris lilies]

I was a voracious reader, and I guess my parents deserve credit for being supportive of me reading anything and everything. I'm pretty sure an 8 year-old didn't get a magazine subscription without some adult assistance.
Haha, that is great of your parents. There wasn't any proscription against comic books or Mad
mag in my house, but my parents funded book buying and regular trips to the library so that is mostly what I read.

On vacation our lake resort always had piles of Archie and veronica comics, so each year for a week I caught up with that crowd. As a kid I had subscriptions to Highlights and Jack and Jill, tamer options than Mad.

When I was 14 or 15 I bought a subscription to House Beautiful. Round about then I was thrilled to learn my cousin took a new job working for Metropolitan Home, my new favorite shelter magazine. I treated her like royalty! But then I learned she was just selling advertising space, so never mind cuz.

There were many shelter magazines centered in Des Moines with Meredith Corporation, so Des Moines homes were featured prominently in their pages.

[Teacher Terry]

Growing up we went to the library for books and could use our allowance for comic books. We all loved to read as did my parents.

[catherine]

I was a voracious reader, and I guess my parents deserve credit for being supportive of me reading anything and everything. I'm pretty sure an 8 year-old didn't get a magazine subscription without some adult assistance.

Yeah, my dad was very particular about what I read. I remember my very first library visit, and all my little friends were in the kid section with Dick and Jane. He would not let me take out any picture books. I still recall my yearning.

That didn't stop me from being a big reader in the end, though, thank God (and thank the nuns who did a good job of teaching reading and thanks to all the wonderful authors out there).

[JaneV2.0]

Yeah, my dad was very particular about what I read. I remember my very first library visit, and all my little friends were in the kid section with Dick and Jane. He would not let me take out any picture books. I still recall my yearning. ...

Yeah, that kind of yearning has informed my life, as well. I have plenty now of whatever I didn't get enough of as a child. Except for the chemistry and building sets I didn't get because I guess they weren't traditionally girly. Maybe it's not too late.

[iris lilies]

Yeah, that kind of yearning has informed my life, as well. I have plenty now of whatever I didn't get enough of as a child. Except for the chemistry and building sets I didn't get because I guess they weren't traditionally girly. Maybe it's not too late.
My best friend, vorn in 1954, had a chemistry set. I think her adult brother was a chemist, though.He might have been responsible for that.

[JaneV2.0]

The only C I got in high school was in chemistry. I hold my parents directly responsible. :devil: