“Long time and current subscriber to the print edition, which I treasure when the mailman slips it thru the door, angering my wife.”
My first paying gig was selling my brother’s old MAD mags out of a wagon when I was five years-old and read it through half my teens.
My son brought a recent copy home that was accidentally sent to his biz. Compared to the old days it was unreadable and full of PC and social justice BS.
Yeah..new Mad....not even funny.Simpleton humor. The old stuff had references to philosophy...literature...religion...social norms..lying, conniving EVERYONE...not just big business or government...everyone down to the everyday Joe Blow.
One of my favorites... the satirical IKRAPPA catalog in place of the IK#A catalog. Having shopped there and even bought some of the items...that catalog hit it out of the park for me.
Mort Drucker...in a crowded field, the absolute best in capturing the essence of the person he was drawing.
Agreed on the recent crap, but interspersed with a few gold nuggets.