MAD Magazine to Cease Publication

comic book / dc ^ | 07/04/19 | RUSS BURLINGAME

[P.O.E.]

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.

[libertylover]

I subscribed again a few years ago and EVERY issue was a Trump bash-fest. I didnt even read one page of them.

A few years ago I cashed in some leftover frequent flyer miles and got a subscription to ESNP Magazine. It was all queer all the time and I started taking them directly from the mailbox to the trash bin.

[silent_jonny]

Mort Drucker, Don Martin, Jack Davis ... those days are long gone.

This is what passes for "humor" in today's Mad Magazine.

[buckalfa]

"My parents always told me that reading MAD magazine would rot my brain. And they were right. Thank goodness."

Yeah, MAD would never be confused with great literature and looking back at some editions from the 60's I now find the content to have no redeeming social value in shaping character. Yet the magazine, TW3, Laugh In, and Monty Python shaped my warped sense of humor and pathological need to end conversations with some smart assed satirical remark. A trait that did not serve me well in my business career or personal relationships.

[PAR35]

So AT&T continues to cull leftist propaganda organs? Wish they’d get around to the folks at CNN.

[FalloutShelterGirl]

MAD in the 60s and 70s shaped my humor. My mom caught me reading one finally and ripped it out of my hands, started lecturing me on wasting my allowance on garbage, and then something on the page caught her eye, she read it and burst out laughing! Then she handed it back to me and walked away.

After that I could leave them laying around my room. Caught my dad reading them a couple times :)

RIP MAD...you helped me through childhood! Liberals destroyed you like everything else. Because liberals can only destroy.

[jonsie]

Don’t go away mad MAD, just go away.

[foreverfree]

Dave Berg drew the shapliest women...

ff

[foreverfree]

... and Don Martin (who IIRC later defected to Cracked) "drew" the silliest sound effects.

ff

[norwaypinesavage]

I’m amazed that it took so long. I was an adolescent boy when the magazine came out - a prime target for its sales. I partially read one magazine that a friend had, and, even at 13, thought it was the most inane rag I had ever seen. I have never even picked up another one since. Good riddance.

[grey_whiskers]

Whatever I learned of Greek mythology, I got from MAD Magazine.

Just like I got my classical music from Bugs Bunny cartoons.

[grey_whiskers]

I remember when they had the acetate of “I Love Her Cause She Lets Me Watch Her Mom and Pop Fight”...

[wally_bert]

I learned to love classic movies because of Remington Steele.

[Holdem Or Foldem]

What? Me worry.

[bert]

Alas, with the current issue, Forbes rebooted. What happened to Forbes is exactly what you describe happened to MAD.

Steve Forbes still has his column but is beating the dead horses he has flogged for years.

RIP MAD

RIP Forbes

[Shady]

And instead of water in the water cooler they had wine!

[Jim Noble]

She got a nose job
She got a nose job
It’s now turned up
Instead of hanging down
She got a nose job
She got a nose job
And now she’s the
Prettiest gal in town.

R.I.P. MAD. Who would have thought our reality would be weirder than MAD could ever parody?

[Shady]

Only after Bill Gaines and Al Goldstein passed away. The cartoons in the margins were the best! 😂

[Shady]

BLORT!

[TruthWillWin]

“What Me Worry?”

[ABN 505]

Way back when.. our music teacher Sister Catherine let each of us bring in a 45 that we liked and we would listen and then discuss it. I brought in “It’s A Gas” and it brought down the class ,even the nun’s were laughing. Still makes me smile after all these years.