Posted on 07/03/2019 9:47:54 PM PDT by RedMonqey
MAD Magazine will cease publication later this year, according to reports. Blogger Jedidiah Leland reportedly discovered the news after a MAD editor confessed to the magazine's doom in a Facebook group, and shortly thereafter, cartoonist Ruben Bolling seemed to confirm the report on Twitter. Of course, Bolling is not a MAD cartoonist (although he did have work published in it in 2005), so he may have been simply responding to the growing volume of responses to the Leland report.
The 2017 reorganization and subsequent 2018 reboot both struggled with finding an identity for MAD in an increasingly satire-saturated world. Between websites that can deliver topical comedy in real time and a fiercely divided American populace who cannot agree on what comedy is because their preferences break down along party lines, MAD struggled to find an elusive niche. When political humor seemed to work, MAD doubled down on lampooning the Trump administration, which earned some critical praise but likely alienated conservative readers as well as putting the magazine in direct competitions with late night shows that were delivering content nightly rather than once every two months.
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A few days ago on FR, there was a post on the play and movie "Grease." I posted this which I remembered from my childhood...in one panel, MAD cut the whole storyline down to its pernicious essence in a manner that would likely get them torched nowadays:
Is Cracked still online?
I cannot believe I found that funny. It’s the kind of thing that would have annoyed the hell out of my parents.
Bump
I'll have to drop by my father's house and see if my bag full of them are still in his basement.
$5.99? Not cheap!
As a kid, I read it often cover-to-cover in the Fifties and Sixties. It was good fun.
No, not MAD Magazine too..... sniff sniff
Back in the mid ‘60s for some odd reason I found Don Martin sound effects were fun to vocalize. My sisters still think I’m weird because of it... I was only 10... gimme a break!
Just casn’t compete with the d’rat party so they gave up.
Mad Visits John Wayde on the set of "At the Alamo":
Flawrence of Arabia:
James Bomb:
Where Vultures Fare:
Buttgiggle is the Love Child of Alfred E. Neuman and Mr. Bean.
The left IS a satire of what our society used to be.
Brilliant!
I remember being impatient with the wordy dialogue and going straight to the Don Martin and Sergio Aragones cartoons.
Eventually I’d get to the whole magazine before the next issue came out, though.
It's hilarious that the DNC talking point that the country is divided as never before always winds up in stories like this, or pretty much any story. Price of anchovies? The country is led by the most divisive figure in human history. Apparently having a memory of the Tet Offensive, and LBJ, and the 1968 primary season (included the RFK assassination by an Arab terrorist), and Pat Paulsen's 'campaign' for POTUS, and in 1972, MAD Magazine's "Alfred e neuman with brain of albumin will win just like Truman did from Missouri"... all history is something that was just dreamed up by a bunch of white sexist male racist homophobes. Oh wow, that quote actually turns up in a Google search -- I was trying to check the date as a long shot.
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