(They ended the numerical run that was contiguous from 1952 last year and rebooted)
So get Mad. Last chance for a new Mad magazine is now.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2019/07/04/mad-magazine-to-stop-publishing-new-issues/amp/
Quote: darkozMad magazine last issue is the upcoming #10
(They ended the numerical run that was contiguous from 1952 last year and rebooted)
So get Mad. Last chance for a new Mad magazine is now.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2019/07/04/mad-magazine-to-stop-publishing-new-issues/amp/
What ever happened to that guy here with the Alfred E Neuman avatar?
Quote: unJonWhat ever happened to that guy here with the Alfred E Neuman avatar?
I think he finally started to worry.
Edit: Here's a link to a great article on the origin of Alfred E Neuman.
Quote: unJonWhat ever happened to that guy here with the Alfred E Neuman avatar?
MrV. "Temporary hiatus", last I knew. He went offline when LarryS got doxxed, to the conspiracists delight.
Quote: michael99000Spy vs Spy, Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions, and The Lighter Side Of... were my favorite Mad articles.
I also liked those articles. And how Don Martin drew feet that would bend in the middle.
The 1980s Spy vs. Spy video game was one of the best ever for that era—so much so that they rebooted it for smartphones, and gloriously provided a "retro" option!
Thank you Uncle Pat, whose Christmas gift to us every year for at least a decade of the 60s and 70s was a subscription. Boo hiss to Mom who threw out our whole library of comics and Mad in 1977 while we were away in college. They were well worn but I bet still had some value.
I've bought a couple of the compilations but it's just not the same. Need the originals.
Thank you Uncle Pat, whose Christmas gift to us every year for at least a decade of the 60s and 70s was a subscription. Boo hiss to Mom who threw out our whole library of comics and Mad in 1977 while we were away in college. They were well worn but I bet still had some value.
I've bought a couple of the compilations but it's just not the same. Need the originals.
Well, Moms must be cut from a similar blueprint both sides of the Atlantic.Quote: beachbumbabsBoo hiss to Mom who threw out our whole library of comics and Mad in 1977 while we were away in college. They were well worn but I bet still had some value.
I've bought a couple of the compilations but it's just not the same. Need the originals.
Mine never understood why I was ...MAD! at her doing that.
I could have sworn he said that the forums were causing him some unhealthy gambling triggers so he needed to step away. It seems to me he stuck around quite a while after Larry's departure.Quote: FaceMrV. "Temporary hiatus", last I knew. He went offline when LarryS got doxxed, to the conspiracists delight.
Quote: AxelWolfI could have sworn he said that the forums were causing him some unhealthy gambling triggers so he needed to step away. It seems to me he stuck around quite a while after Larry's departure.
Just in case, I was just referencing the inside joke amongst some and not actually inferring V and S are one in the same.
I didn't pick up on what you're getting at since never in my wildest dreams did I think they're the same person. Certainly they had some things in common and they seem to be long time forum Buddies. Both interesting people, that's for sure.Quote: FaceJust in case, I was just referencing the inside joke amongst some and not actually inferring V and S are one in the same.
Quote: RigondeauxMad was a huge part of my childhood.
It was with me, it ended about
1965 when it was just more
silly than funny.
Most of what I read fell flat after a page or two. Spy vs. Spy is always great, and I found a new appreciation for Sergio A.
Don Martin is best served in small doses, in my opinion.
Anyway, that era of Mad ended long ago. DC/ Time Warner bought the dying magazine years ago and doing $200 coffee tables editions is much more profitable than declining monthly pamphlets.
I generally don't buy Mads but have seen enough at garage sales, auctions and estate sales to agree that high grade copies are pretty rare.
I'm speculating, but I think old Mads may find a niche at adult day care centers. Nostalgia is a very calming influence.
I'm not sure if the magazine changed or me, but by high school I just didn't find it funny any longer.
I will probably buy the last regular issue for sentimental reasons.
Quote: beachbumbabsMy very favorite was the back inside cover that folded into something else.
Al Jaffee, the guy who does those, is 98 years old and not only did he work for MAD longer than anyone else, he also has the longest career of any comics artist in history.
Quote: Wizard
I'm not sure if the magazine changed or me, but by high school I just didn't find it funny any longer.
Me either. It went from funny to stupid
because we grew up. To a kid fart jokes
are funny, that's Mad Magazine.
Quote: Wizard
I'm not sure if the magazine changed or me, but by high school I just didn't find it funny any longer.
It's both. The magazine would change tone depending on the editors and contributors, but also people's tastes change.
Quote: TigerWuAl Jaffee, the guy who does those, is 98 years old and not only did he work for MAD longer than anyone else, he also has the longest career of any comics artist in history.
I always marveled how he was able to draw those fold-ins months after month. They're creative genius.
There should be a gallery exhibition of those!
Quote: smoothgrhI always marveled how he was able to draw those fold-ins months after month. They're creative genius.
I imagine he created a method to break it down, but it makes an interesting idea for continuous puzzle problem.
Quote: smoothgrhI always marveled how he was able to draw those fold-ins months after month. They're creative genius.
There should be a gallery exhibition of those!
I read an interview with him where he says he draws the fold-in part first, then unfolds it to fill-in the space between. He said it was "easy," but then I imagine most people who are geniuses in their field think what they do is easy...
He's probably my favorite MAD artist, along with Tom Bunk and Sergio Aragones.
Quote: TigerWuI read an interview with him where he says he draws the fold-in part first, then unfolds it to fill-in the space between. He said it was "easy," but then I imagine most people who are geniuses in their field think what they do is easy...
He's probably my favorite MAD artist, along with Tom Bunk and Sergio Aragones.
And he also has to make the words at the bottom make sense with the page both folded and unfolded.
Quote: WizardMy favorite part as a kid was the Spy vs. Spy cartoons.
Did you have a favorite? Early on, I rooted for black spy( Adam Cartwright showed me good guys could wear black) but eventually I figured out rooting against both was more satisfying.
I've had the pleasure of meeting Sergio at a number of events. He once gave a short speech at a dinner that was as priceless as it was confusing.
Quote: billryanDid you have a favorite?
Yes! I was a true White Spy fan. Never wavered from that position. It was often argued among my group of friends which spy won more often and I tend to think it was the black one. Just goes to show I've been rooting for the underdog from the start.
Quote: WizardYes! I was a true White Spy fan. Never wavered from that position. It was often argued among my group of friends which spy won more often and I tend to think it was the black one. Just goes to show I've been rooting for the underdog from the start.
According to a interview with Aragones I saw or read years ago, it was the white spy who won more often.
Aragones said the white spy was easier to draw (just lines while he had to spend extra time to fill in the black spy) so he favored the white one
Quote: darkozAccording to a interview with Aragones I saw or read years ago, it was the white spy who won more often.
Hmmm. Maybe selective memory makes me think otherwise.
Later on they introduced the Grey Spy, who was a sexy lady that never lost.
Quote: TigerWuLater on they introduced the Grey Spy, who was a sexy lady that never lost.
I did not know that, but see you're right.
I oppose her addition to the strip.
Quote: TomGSubscribed throughout the entire 90s. Not living through Watergate, picking up old magazines and trade-paperbacks at every used bookstore or church fair was probably the best way I learned about history growing up. A lot of what what I know about about pop culture and politics from 1960 - 2000 comes from MAD.
That sointently splains things.
Quote: WizardI did not know that, but see you're right.
I oppose her addition to the strip.
According to a Wikipedia article, she first appeared in 1962, making sporadic appearances until 1965, until being much more recently reintroduced.
Quote: Dalex64Quote: WizardI did not know that, but see you're right.
I oppose her addition to the strip.
According to a Wikipedia article, she first appeared in 1962, making sporadic appearances until 1965, until being much more recently reintroduced.
She was no Natasha Fatale
My favorite female spy is still 99 from "Get Smart"
of True Grit was hilarious. Portraying
John Wayne as a drunk slob.
Godfather was good too.
As was Chinatown
Jaws
Quote: EvenBobTo a kid fart jokes are funny
I must still be a kid.
Quote: Ayecarumba
My favorite female spy is still 99 from "Get Smart"
I just watched Season 1 Episode 1 of Get Smart over the weekend. Yes, both the shoe phone and Cone of Silence debuted in the first episode.
Quote: TigerWuThe latest issue of Mad Magazine (#12) is about half reprinted material and half new material. The reprinted stuff is from every decade; the oldest article being from the late 1950's.
There was a press release that issue 10 would be the last issue with all new content
That seemed to be misinterpreted as Mads last issue. They are continuing with a mixture of old and new content
Along with the magazine a few books (mostly done by Don Martin) were written. The one I remember the most were the stories of Kaptain Klutz.
Quote: LovecompsI read it religiously when I was a kid. Back then they refused to have adversiting but somewhere along the way they started doing it.
Along with the magazine a few books (mostly done by Don Martin) were written. The one I remember the most were the stories of Kaptain Klutz.
My favorite Mad book was Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions
Quote: LovecompsI read it religiously when I was a kid. Back then they refused to have adversiting but somewhere along the way they started doing it.
They did start having ads in the last few years of the original run, but starting with the "rebooted" issue #1 a few years ago they have ceased advertisements.
It's publisher, Bill Gaines, was a certified mad man, whose father is often credited with " inventing" the comic book.
In the 1950s , Bill ran a very successful line of horror comics that were the subject of boycotts, burnings and even a Congressional investigation. Mr Gaines famously tried to explain how a severed head could be in good taste as long as it didn't have blood dripping from it. A larger than life individual, with shoulder length hair and a beard that sometimes reached his lower chest, he became the personification for everything wrong with comic books and became the poster boy for the anti-comic book movement that swept the nation.
Bill was forced to shut down his comic line and only Mad survived, although as a magazine. He sold Mad, for tax reasons, but stayed on a publisher until he died about 25 years ago.
Various people have tried to make a bio pic on his life but it doesn't seem likely.
Before the creation of Mad Magazine, which EC comic character was the first to refer to his comic book as a "mad-mag"?