The ONE and ONLY MAD Thread

[Guest TheZsaszHorsemen]

Is anyone else a fan of MAD Magazine? Want to discuss the current issue (NASCAR and 8 Mile) or one from yyour youth, maybe you're a fan of a recurring column post about it in here.

[Guest Annoyed Grunt]

I bought that CD set with every issuse a couple years ago. It's good stuff, but reading off a screen isn't a whole lot of fun.

[Guest Bruiser Chong]

Over the years, I've picked up a MAD magazine every once in a while. I've got maybe seven or eight and I've sold three on eBay. They're still a blast to go through but I've got so much stuff around here that they'll probably be next on the eBay chopping block. My favorite MAD magazine that I have is the one with all Nick-at-Nite spoofs. Great stuff. I also have the MAD book about the 60's that belonged to my mom I believe, cause I sure as hell didn't buy it. Just had it all of a sudden.

[Guest Luke Cage]

Mad magazine helped shaped the sense of humor of an entire generation. Their irreverence, absurdity and self deprecating attitude influenced fellow cartoonists, filmakers, tv producers, musicians, writers...

 

My Mad memories include...

Geting the super size specials as a kid. What a bargain they were! .75 to a buck IIRC, and loaded with articles/movies spoofs and one page gags. Sometimes they included full size reprints of the color EC MADs. I remember being stunned at the level of depth the panels had. There were so much going on in each panel, yet the pacing of the story was zippy. You could read the spoof, and then re examine the pages for the gags you may have missed the first time around. The kintic energy of the Kurtzman/Elder/Davis/Wood art made it seem like the books would just shake themselves apart.

 

The black and white magazines from the 70's. I loved the movie spoofs...so much so that whenever I think of a movie from that era (like Network, or The Longest Yard) I invariably think of the Mad parody in the same moment.

 

Don Martin's one page strips. As a kid, I loved the strange world Martin created. The way people's feet flopped and bent as they walked. The sound effects he used(created? I don't recall seing effects like "Spldapfl" in any other comics).

 

Sergio Aragones' margin gags.

 

Dave Berg's "Lighter Side Of..." columns.

 

Al Jaffe's Fold-In gags and his futristic gadget satires.

 

That's all that comes to mind right now. Always have and will love Mad.

[Guest Phr33k]

Yes. R.I.P. Dave Berg. I always loved "The Lighter Side Of..."

[Guest areacode212]

Having the other regular MAD artists illustrate the final "The Lighter Side of..." installment was a nice tribute. They weren't as funny as the Berg-illustrated ones, though.