MAD Magazine reportedly shutting down
Washington Times,
by
Victor Morton
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
7/4/2019 7:27:02 AM
America’s most venerable spoof magazine, the source of one of President Trump’s most recent jibes at the Democrats, is reportedly no more. MAD magazine will cease publishing new material later this year, with the 10th issue, according to multiple accounts. Citing “two separate sources close to the situation,” comicbook.com confirmed reports from earlier Wednesday evening that an editor at MAD had spilled the beans on the magazine’s fate in a Facebook group. David DeGrand, a contributing artist to the magazine, independently responded to a Twitter query about the rumors with “Can confirm.” According to the reported Facebook account, MAD will recycle older material
Reply 1 - Posted by:
snapper451 7/4/2019 7:37:30 AM (No. 113786)
But what happens to Mayor Pete / Alfred E. Neuman?
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MAD... They didn't care who's toes they stepped on. Spy VS Spy. Satire, humor... all gone now... Thanks to the left.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Ruhn 7/4/2019 8:17:10 AM (No. 113834)
Sad, but the writing was was on the wall for quite some time. MAD magazine was in its prime in the ‘60s and ‘70s with William Gaines at the helm and a gifted team of writers and artists. All of them passed on over the years and the quality declined. Another fatal decision was to accept outside advertising, something Gaines would never allow as advertisers were even mocked in the mag. Consequently MAD came across as more corporate and compromised.
MAD was always about sharp but silly satire but it had degenerated into dim, coarse and sometimes mean spirited attempts at humor.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 7/4/2019 8:29:48 AM (No. 113844)
Too bad. There is a market for what MAD magazine published.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 7/4/2019 8:38:52 AM (No. 113850)
The list of things you don't dare poke fun at probably got so long they were running out of material.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jj1319 7/4/2019 8:48:56 AM (No. 113857)
Mad Magazine and National Lampoon added immensely to American culture. If we can't laugh at ourselves, we're screwed. Rule 62.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 7/4/2019 9:05:58 AM (No. 113884)
You Know You're Really Getting Old When...Mad closes shop :-(
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 7/4/2019 9:10:23 AM (No. 113890)
No more children who know how to read, or want to, probably the root cause.
We are destroying ourselves with letting young people have too much computer time.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
GO3 7/4/2019 9:14:59 AM (No. 113900)
True, a long time ago they satirized everybody; right, left, and everything in between. But the few times I read the new version it was all about slamming the right. And also not funny. Yes, I’m sad to see it go, but it’s time has come and gone.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Skinnydip 7/4/2019 9:17:16 AM (No. 113904)
What, me worry?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 7/4/2019 9:30:53 AM (No. 113929)
I remember when MAD was a 10¢ comic book - - long before Mel Haney/Alfred E. Newman was an concept in an artist's eye - - and long before MAD became a magazine.
I also remember its sister publication - - a comic book called Panic - - which was actually much funnier than MAD because of a genius cartoonist/humorist named Will Elder.
Ah, yes - - the good old days!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Rama41 7/4/2019 9:31:52 AM (No. 113931)
I was a big fan as a kid. Had a box of most of the first ones in a closet in my room. After I went to school, my mom cleaned out my closet. Ah well.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
jacksin5 7/4/2019 9:49:41 AM (No. 113965)
It takes a certain amount of intelligence and savvy to appreciate Satire. Most kids, (and a lot of adults), just don't get it.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Historybuff 7/4/2019 10:16:50 AM (No. 113998)
#11. The image that became Alfred E Neuman predates Mad by many years. It was Mad that gave him the name though.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
MDConservative 7/4/2019 10:40:42 AM (No. 114019)
My late mother is dancing in heaven at the news. Where's my "It's a Gas" tear-out record...?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 7/4/2019 10:55:08 AM (No. 114039)
#14 - - The Mel Haney/Alfred E. Newman drawing was originally used as an illustration in an edition of Huckleberry Finn.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 7/4/2019 10:59:33 AM (No. 114045)
Political Correctness takes another victim. For decades now Saturday Night Live has been on veritable life-support with infusions from the DNC using it to attack Republicans and conservatives. Comedy is dying and the world is becoming more hostile... no strange coincidence, might I add.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
bad-hair 7/4/2019 11:08:24 AM (No. 114057)
Guess we need a MAD app. Are they going to let us know which spy won?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Kate318 7/4/2019 11:32:47 AM (No. 114081)
Wow, talk about the end of an era. I used to love this magazine as a kid, and even occasionally read it as an adult. My all-time favorite, movie spoof was Rosemary’s BooBoo...which tells you how sold I am.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
mc squared 7/4/2019 12:26:04 PM (No. 114131)
No market left for a print magazine when we have a renewed Democrat Party to provide laughs.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
chance_232 7/4/2019 12:32:42 PM (No. 114138)
I stopped reading the Onion when what used to be satire has become democrat talking points, policy positions and headlines. MAD, like the Onion has become more prophetic than satire.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/4/2019 1:15:19 PM (No. 114187)
Who needs Mad when we have the demonrat party?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/4/2019 1:17:54 PM (No. 114190)
Sorry #21 and #22. I posted before reading the comments. Must stop doing that.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
john56 7/4/2019 1:18:39 PM (No. 114191)
Such a shame. I loved my monthly purchase of MAD and the required hiding of it from mom or the nuns, both of whom considered it scandalous. Remember the fold in at the back of the magazine. One of my favorites was the one pushing color TV with pictures of dancing girls... who, in black and white looked like they were closer to au nautral than clothed. And Spy vs Spy was always worth the purchase!
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 7/4/2019 1:50:05 PM (No. 114209)
"...the fold in at the back!" I'd completely forgotten that! Wow, such fond memories of hanging out at the neighborhood boys' houses in the late 50's so I could read their MAD magazines. They were the best (the magazines, I mean)! Only 'comic book' I was ever interested in....loved them!!
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
franq 7/4/2019 4:11:20 PM (No. 114277)
I always thought their forte was send-ups of current movies and TV shows. Funny dialog and well-drawn caricatures.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
red1066 7/4/2019 10:26:21 PM (No. 114462)
Sorry to hear of MAD's demise. It was the one magazine I would buy and read. I wasn't into comic books, but I read MAD from cover to cover and kept them all for years to reread.
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