MAD Magazine is Going To Mostly Cease As A Print Publication After 67 Years, Bumming Fans Out

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MAD Magazine is Going To Mostly Cease As A Print Publication After 67 Years, Bumming Fans Out.


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Richard

 

[DaveNV]

I'm sorry to read this, but to be fair, when was the last time anybody here bought a copy of the magazine? I haven't bought MAD since I was a kid. Not sure I've ever seen it on the magazine shelf at the grocery store (where they have any number of other ubiquitous magazines.) I'm frankly surprised it's still around.

Dave

 

[buzglyd]

I was a subscriber as a teen. My kid probably doesn't even know what it is.

 

[silentg]

We bought one a few years ago, not the same as when we were kids, we would laugh out loud at the articles!

 

[Passepartout]

I haven't bought ANY magazine for years.

What? Me Worry?

Jim

 

[Sea Six]

When I was a kid, on Christmas morning my parents stuck a copy of MAD in a stocking on my bedroom door so I would have something to do until they got up and were ready to open presents.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Four or five years ago my first boss out of college and I reconnected. Our office was in San Bernardino, and DW and I were living in a cabin near Lake Arrowhead in the San Bernardino Mountains. I still had my Mad Magazine collection from my teen years in the 1970's.

My boss relayed a favorite story of his. We were visiting relatives for Christmas and New Years one year, and we had invited him to stay in our mountain cabin with his family for a few days while we were gone. He took me up on the offer. While they were in the cabin, his son (then about 12 years old) started reading the Mad Magazines and became hooked.

Of course, I first became hooked when my older brother started buying Mad Magazine.

It's been quite a few years since I've checked them out. Last time I visited the site they were just a shadow of what they had been - the humor that made them so attractive and unique in the first place was gone. There wasn't anything that set them apart, and too many other were doing the same thing, but doing it better.

 

[x3 skier]

Egad! Does this mean the end of Alfred E Neuman????

Cheers

 

[Ralph Sir Edward]

I heard he applied for an earthquake prediction job. . . . .

 

[clifffaith]

Wow, I haven't thought of Mad Magazine in years. My little brother either had a subscription or bought it regularly. I liked Spy vs Spy, but found the Rat Fink character scary/icky.

 

[DaveNV]

As I'm remembering it, things at MAD really started to decline when Don Martin died, nearly twenty years ago. The original Spy vs. Spy artist died in 1998. They can only wring so much humor from repeated strips and such. A lot of names are new, and new talent isn't the same as the original talent. It was a good run, but I think it's time to let the magazine go.

Dave

 

[rickandcindy23]

My grandson would probably have enjoyed the magazine, but he is only 9, so his mom wouldn't appreciate that type of humor for him. He has a wonderful sense of humor and made up knock-knock jokes at 2. He is a brilliant kid. Sounds like grandma bragging, but he read books at 3. He has a sense of humor that would appreciate the stuff in that magazine. And so an era ends. Sad.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

My grandson would probably have enjoyed the magazine, but he is only 9, so his mom wouldn't appreciate that type of humor for him. He has a wonderful sense of humor and made up knock-knock jokes at 2. He is a brilliant kid. Sounds like grandma bragging, but he read books at 3. He has a sense of humor that would appreciate the stuff in that magazine. And so an era ends. Sad.

So you should start accumulating some of the classic issues so that you can start a process of "gifting" him regularly when the time comes. Something like a new issue of Mad arriving each birthday.

Nine years old? That's about when I fondly remember reading Superduperman - probably my first foray into my brother's Mad collection.