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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You can’t satirize our society. It just gives the left ideas.
“..You can’t satirize our society. It just gives the left ideas....”
No... but we can still point at them and laugh in their faces to piss them off.
Every day, every opportunity, and for any reason.
I started buying and reading MAD, when I was 10 and it was just a regular comic book that cost a dime.And funnily enough, I can still remember what was in many of those very early comic books, after all of these many decades.
Probably trying to remove an obstacle to Buttigieg.
TRUMP CURSE hits again.
No, in fact the OPPOSITE is true.
There are SO MANY online sites that the younger generations follow that MAD lost ground.
Geez people around here sound like my father with rock and roll, God Bless His Soul.
Till has LAST DAY he REFUSED to believe “Michele” was written by The Beatles.
Things die out. Doesn’t always mean a conspiracy.
Almost always means we’re getting old :)
Spy vs spy vs spy, RIP. What? Me worry. I loved the little cartoons on the border of the pages. Wish I had kept all the old issues. Might be worth something.
Now we’ll have no way to teach future generations who it is Mayor Peter looks like.
“Will Alfred E Newman Live on?”
YES! His “real name” is Pete Buttaplug, the current mayor of South Bend, IN!
I was selling my brother’s old Mad Magazines out of a red wagon when I was five years old.
Looked at one recently, it was all anti Trump hatred.
The best Mad Mag story I’ve read was sometime in the early 90’s their only subscriber in the Dominican Republic dropped his subscription.
Al Jaffee and the entire Mad staff flew there to talk him into renewing his subscription.
A builder came, surveyed the land,
Proposed a deal for him to sign.
"I'll build it in a year, as planned;
T'will cost you only fifty grand."
And Kubla said, "That's fine."
No work was done for half a year,
A fact that Kubla didn't like;
He said, "You're way behind, I fear;
How come there are no workers here?"
The builder said, "A strike."
Two years, then three went by before
Poor Kubla stood inside his hall.
The den, he noticed, lacked a door,
And three rooms on the second floor
Had not been built at all.
"Good God!" he screamed,"You can't deny
That what you've built here is a mess!
"I'd like to know the reason why!"
To which the builder did reply, "Poor workmanship, I guess."
So Kubla Khan left Xanadu
Disgusted with his pleasure-dome
And now, near Highway Twenty-Two
He lives as many others do,
Inside a mobile home.
by Frank Jacobs for Mad Magazine
25 cemts CHEAP
I liked Mad and they have always been left leaning but lately it was just 80% rehashes and Drumpf this and Drumpf that. Theres a billion other places to go if this is what you want. Gotta stay relevant somehow.
Like Saturday Night Live it became unfunny and moronic years ago.Get the anthologies of 60s and 70s issues. You can still get the old paperbacks.
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