Posted on 04/10/2023 1:53:50 PM PDT by Borges
The cartoonist who spent 65 years with Mad Magazine - mostly doing the "Fold-ins".
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I’m old enough to remember when having a copy of Mad Magazine was a daring act.
Many a copy confiscated by my mom.
Or the nuns.
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As I remember it, it was reliably left of center.
Not making them like this anymore.
When I was 12 I got every issue of MAD when it came out.
In the ‘50s all comics books were a “Communist Plot!’’
Hence the The Kevauffer Commission.
Thanks for the laughs and great memories, Mr. Jaffe.
I was an avid Mad Magazine reader until I started high school.
Then, a few years later when I went into the USAF a new magazine came out, which was even better: National Lampoon.
Thanks for the reminder. MAD was a genuinely funny magazine that mocked EVERYTHING.
I rushed to the newstand to get the newest copy (35 cents CHEAP!)
The magazine seems rather lame by today's standards but back in the day, you were the coolest kid on the block with a stack of those. Most parents would not allow them in the house.
My parents always had a rule that so long as I was reading, and not watching brainless TV (like pro wrestling on Saturday mornings), I could read whatever I wanted. Even if it was Penthouse or Hustler. I always told them I read those for the articles. And I did. The Penthouse Forum was something else in those days.
And being violently triggered.
I thought all your stories were fake until...
When I was a kid in the 70’s I used to Call ABC News Reporter Ted Koppel Alfred E. Neuman
A person who made the world a better place, as did the rest of the early alumni.
RIP
My boomer parents credit MAD for their remarkable sense of humor.
Having studied 20th c American history, I know there were other influences. Lucy, Ernie Kovacs, Sid Caesar, Jack Benny, Abbott and Costello, Allan Sherman, Marx Bros. ...innumerable others. But always, when people remark on how funny the folks are, they credit MAD.
I have never read MAD. Probably should. It may be that the mind absorbs influences better, from reading than from TV. They were saturated with tv, yet they cite this one magazine and I don’t think it was a daily.
Memories from my childhood.
Dad had a subscription to MAD. When it came in the mail, the parents read it first and then we kids passed it around.
I was the firstborn, so I got it after my parents and then I’d give it to my brother.
It was considered common courtesy to smooth the fold-in page flat before giving it to the next reader.
R.I.P., Al and thank you for the laughs.
I had a copy of Mad Magazine tucked in with my books one day when I was in High School Drivers’ Ed. We had crude simulators to practice on, then. Just before the session started, the instructor (who was also the basketball coach) walked past me and spotted “Mad” sticking out a bit, under my chair. He stopped, said “What’s this?” pulled it out, and I owned up that I had brought it to school. Coach said, “I haven’t seen one of these for a few years”, then something to the effect of “I’d better check it out” and retired to a small side room the instructors sometimes used while the classes were on the simulators. When class was over he gave the magazine back to me with a bit of a grin and advised me to keep it a little better out of sight in the future.
You had a lot of company - Hahaha!
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