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Soul of Mad Magazine, Al Feldstein Dies at 88
NY Times ^ | 5/1/2014 | BRUCE WEBER

Posted on 05/01/2014 6:35:15 AM PDT by 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.

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KEYWORDS: 2014obituaries; alfeldstein; americana; comicbooks; comics; eccomics; mad; madmagazine; madmen; obituary; popculture; questionauthority; vanishingamerica
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To: Borges

RIP.


41 posted on 05/01/2014 3:11:40 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: reagandemocrat
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)!

42 posted on 05/01/2014 4:38:50 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
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To: Fast Moving Angel
It's a Gas
43 posted on 05/01/2014 4:41:05 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: Publius
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 ;-)

44 posted on 05/01/2014 4:44:00 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
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To: Fast Moving Angel
From the same LP.

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

45 posted on 05/01/2014 4:51:42 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: Publius

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.


46 posted on 05/01/2014 4:56:59 PM PDT by reagandemocrat
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To: reagandemocrat
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"

47 posted on 05/01/2014 5:03:03 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: a fool in paradise

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


48 posted on 05/01/2014 5:08:02 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Lou L

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


49 posted on 05/01/2014 5:13:07 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: abb; a fool in paradise

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


50 posted on 05/02/2014 11:24:59 AM PDT by GOPJ
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To: Ready4Freddy

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!


51 posted on 05/02/2014 11:27:45 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: GOPJ

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


52 posted on 05/02/2014 11:35:31 AM PDT by abb
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To: BunnySlippers
lol "I Like Dick"


53 posted on 05/02/2014 1:16:42 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy
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To: Publius

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


54 posted on 05/06/2014 9:31:37 AM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
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To: Fast Moving Angel

I think so.


55 posted on 05/06/2014 9:32:14 AM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: Borges

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.


56 posted on 05/06/2014 9:59:45 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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