Soul of Mad Magazine, Al Feldstein Dies at 88

NY Times ^ | 5/1/2014 | BRUCE WEBER

[Borges]

Al Feldstein, who took over a fledgling humor magazine called Mad in 1956 and made it a popular, profitable and enduring wellspring of American satire, died on Tuesday at his ranch in Paradise Valley, Mont. He was 88.

His wife, the former Michelle Key, confirmed the death. In recent years, he was a wildlife and landscape painter in Montana, outside Livingston.

Mr. Feldstein had been a writer and illustrator of comic books when he became editor of Mad four years into its life and just a year after it had graduated from comic-book form to a full-fledged magazine.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[Fast Moving Angel]

Remember the “Its a Gas” pull out?

That got me in SO much trouble when I slipped it in the middle of a stack of my mom's Hawaiian records ...

Rest in Potrzebie, Al ... thanks for the laughs (and the education)!

[Publius]

It's a Gas

[Fast Moving Angel]

Hmm ... wonder if some of the, um, pertinent parts could be converted to a phone ringtone ... :evil grin:

Thanks, from the kid who never grew up ;-)

[Publius]

From the same LP.

The Dellwoods: "I'll Never Make Fun of Her Mustache Again"

[reagandemocrat]

I still laugh out loud whenever I hear it. Can’t help it.

Led me to Weird Al, Zappa, Dr. Demento, Bonzo Dog, Wildman Fischer, et al.

[Publius]

From Dr. Barrett Hansen, Ph.D., aka Dr. Demento.

Sung by Jerry Lawrence Samuels, composer of "The Shelter of Her Arms", aka Napoleon XIV.

Jerry Samuels: "I Owe a Lot to Iowa Pot"

[dennisw]

I still regret throwing out 10 R Crumb comic books 20 years ago.

[rabidralph]

Snappy Comebacks to Stupid Questions, changed my life :-)

[GOPJ]

Seems there’s one journalist left... this is a great read:

White House
Seizing Control: A Better Way to Cover the White House

http://www.nationaljournal.com/white-house/five-ways-to-shift-leverage-from-the-government-to-the-press-and-public-20140501

[BunnySlippers]

I remember when I went to the store to buy the January 1961 MAD Magazine.

They had the front of the mag as 1961 so that you can flip it upside down and it still says 1961.

That was a few years ago. Nyuk, nyuk!

[abb]

Says the man after he’s no longer on the firing line...

[Ready4Freddy]

lol "I Like Dick"

[Fast Moving Angel]

Hehe ... didn’t Dr. Demento play this?

[Publius]

I think so.

[Rebelbase]

My fist business venture ever was selling my Brother’s old Mad magazines from a red wagon on the sidewalk when I was 5 years old.

I recall reading an article by the MAD gang talking about finding out their one and only subscriber in the Dominican Republic failing to renew his subscription. This was sometime in the 80’s.

The entire MAD staff flew to the DR to personally convince him to renew, which he did.