Let's talk about Mad Magazine

[herr_oberst]

Publication ceased today after 67 years.

What are your favorite memories? The little Sergio Aragones cartoons in the gutters of the pages? The Fold In? The Alfred E Newman covers? The movie parodies?

I just did a google search and boy, no wonder the mothers and fathers used to be up in arms! Check out this ad parody that once ran in "Mad"!

[herr_oberst]

This must have been in the late fifties/early sixties. Too soon?

[GH85Carrera]

Wow, another icon is gone.

I loved Mad back when I was kid. Spy vs Spy and the great cartoons.

RIP Mad Magazine. They made a lot of people laugh and smile, and a few people with no sense of humor really mad.

[Jolly Amaranto]

Spy Vs Spy,

Arthur the potted avocado plant,

The Mad zeppelin,

[masraum]

I loved reading Mad when I was younger. Lots of great stuff, the rear cover that folded to change the image, Spy vs Spy, the covers, etc....

I also used to like Cracked and CARtoons

[Ayles]

Not entirely done for: https://www.cbr.com/mad-magazine-not-canceled-reprint-focus/

[osidak]

that makes me really sad

[Por_sha911]

I started reading Mad mag around 1969. I wish I had saved them. One of my all time favorite sayings was found on the front cover in a tiny font under the word MAD:
"If you kicked the people directly responsible for all your problems you wouldn't be able to sit down for a week" - Alfred E. Neuman

[KevinTodd]

I still miss Sergio Aragones and his hysterical "border incidents". They were just so awesome.

https://williamhorberg.typepad.com/william_horberg/2009/05/the-mad-man-from-mexico.html

[stevej37]

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by masraum

I loved reading Mad when I was younger. Lots of great stuff, the rear cover that folded to change the image, Spy vs Spy, the covers, etc....

I also used to like Cracked and CARtoons

Those were my go to magazines as well..

[gorthar]

Mad magazine was one of my favorites from childhood. Before car magazines entered my life...and even after, actually. Truly great stuff that I honestly believe shaped my own sense of humor. I loved the sly but hilarious references in their movie and tv show spoofs. I remember some send up of something with William Shatner (maybe TJ Hooker?) and one of the panels had him with a price tag sticking out of his hair lol.
Loved the tiny cartoons in the margins, too!

[Bill Douglas]

Aaargh, they must be mad to kill that off.

Maybe the target audience these days don't want anything on paper and us old fellas are dying off.

Yep I grew up on Walt Disney comics, Beano, Archie, Mad, Viz.

[TimT]

<<< enough said...

my avatar for the past forever years...

[Steve Carlton]

You need an upgraded image, Tim...

[dad911]

I have a box stashed away somewhere with issues from the late 50's, 60's and early 70's.

[flatbutt]

I remember their send up of the French Connection that was hilarious. IIRC Egan himself thought it hilarious.

[p911dad]

Great Moments in Medicine: Presenting the Bill

[astrochex]

I enjoyed the movie parodies too. True Grit (True Fat) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Botch Casually and the Somedunce Kid) were a couple of ones I recall.

[fastfredracing]

Mad libs