The magazines will still be mailed to subscribers, and DC will continue to publish MAD books and special collections. In a few weeks, the bimonthly publication will only feature vintage MAD content and be sold at comic book stores. Crazy Magazine stopped publishing in 1983 after a brief decade of issues.Ĭracked magazine (which I often bought with Mad) ceased publication in 2007. Mad is really one of the last satirical magazines around. Drew and Mike played this often when they were doing mornings on WRIF. The character itself has interesting origins and you can read about them on wiki here:Īlfred also made a record! Depending on the source, it’s either from 1963 or 1966 (some sources say it could be as early as 1959), and it was called “It’s a Gas!” With a name like that, you are correct if you thought it included “sounds a body with gas makes”. He was the iconic face of Mad Magazine who signature phrase was “What, me worry?”Īlfred’s face could be found on the cover of Mad, and when I’d walked over the rack, I’d look for his face to find the magazine! I am sure we spent many hours laughing at the “sounds” created by Don Martin for Mad Magazine! Sadly, he died of cancer in 2000. I’m not sure why, but we still make silly noises and make up words when we chat on the phone and when we’re together. ![]() When I think of Don, I always think of my best friend, Jeff. SHTOINK (seen above) was actually his vanity license plate on his car. ![]() At one point in his career, he was promoted as “Mad’s Maddest Artist!” His stuff always had really generic titles like “One Fine Day at the Bank” or “One Tuesday Afternoon After School.” What I loved about him was that his cartoons always had some of the weirdest sound effects! What I mean by that is he’d spell out the sound effects that were going on and those always cracked me up!!! Here are a couple of his onomatopoeias: He was with the magazine from 1956-1988 and had some very funny characters. Incidentally, as of this writing, Al Jaffee is still alive and celebrated his 98th birthday in March!Īnother great contributor to Mad Magazine was artist Don Martin. It’s hard to explain, but this picture may help… ![]() There was some scenario or question posed and you folded the back cover in and the answer and another drawing appeared from the original. There was usually some crazy drawing on the back cover. Who doesn’t respond with a sarcastic answer when someone asks you a ridiculous question!!? I always loved this feature, and Al wrote many books based on this feature.Īl Jaffee also was responsible for this feature. The first was Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions. I always loved reading them and found the comedic spins on character names creative and funny.Īs silly as these comics were, I always wondered which Spy would wind up beating the other one! I don’t recall rooting for one Spy in particular.Īl Jaffee, was responsible for two of my favorite Mad Magazine features. So many great satires and parodies were presented in Mad. M*A*S*H became M*U*S*H, Different Strokes was Different Jokes, The Sound of Music was The Sound of Money, and the Godfather was The OddFather. I will admit that it has been some time since I bought a copy of Mad, but I can recall some of the things I looked forward to each month: This week it was announced that Mad would be coming off the newsstands after an amazing 67 year run! What a shame this is! I remember picking it up and laughing out loud at so many things! As a kid, I always laughed at the humor and satirical content and often brought it to school and laughed with friends during lunch. If I wasn’t buying toys or music, I was in the book store buying my favorite magazine – Mad. With the money I earned, I would run up to the record store and buy records or tapes or maybe I’d go to Circus World and buy some new toy I wanted. It was nice because I had an income (not much, but a lot for a kid).
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