Posted on 03/29/2008 11:48:02 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day
Al Jaffee's Fold-Ins for Mad Magazine, from the 1960s to the present, in interactive form.
[Yes, it's the NY Slimes, but it's worth it to go see some of the old Mad Magazine inside-the-back-cover, fold-over-the-picture-so-you-can-see-the-message art. It leans left, but it's a fun trip down nostalgia lane, if you grew up reading Mad.]
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/03/28/arts/20080330_FOLD_IN_FEATURE.html#
OK, I liked the one about Jamie Lynn Spears.
I don’t remember Mad as being so exclusively left-leaning. They must have been, though; the NYT wouldn’t cherry-pick material to fit their political prejudices. < /sarc>
Loved the fold-ins, not only the originals, but the technology that enables you to “fold” them on screen!
Mad was very left leaning, of course. However, I read it diligently throughout high school in NYC, and as I recall, it often lampooned the political world in general.
During the early 70's my brother had a friend, Pete, who was a dead ringer for Alfred E Neumann.
Pete actually ran his car into a slow moving train. (An accident... he didn't see it in the sunrise, as he was heading east.) His car was wrecked, but he was fine.
It kinda fit.
Well, as we Mad readers always said...What, me worry?
I seem to be having trouble folding my monitor in three.
That was fun. If anyone’s feeling especially nostalgic about Mad, you can actually buy a DVD-ROM with the entire run of the magazine (up to a year or two ago, when the disc was mastered) from these guys:
http://www.gitcorp.com/product.asp?specific=98
The PDF files of the magazines also allow you to “fold” the fold-ins, though not in such a smooth, interactive way.
They’d been doing the same thing with Marvel comics titles until Marvel canceled the licensing deal late last year, unfortunately before they could put out the announced Daredevil and Thor collections. They’ve sold out their stock of the Marvel stuff (though you can still get them from various resellers), but the Mad disc is still readily available. They start releasing out Archie collections soon.
That was Pete's calling card.
Great link. Brings back a lot of memories
The back cover was good too. I remember one from 1973, which showed three pictures of Nixon, with years and “quotations”:
1968 - “You can fool some of the people all of the time.”
1972 - “And all of the people some of the time.”
1973 - “But here’s where I make a liar out of Lincoln.”
This was after Watergate but before the resignation.
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