Topic: Mad Magazine

Bill Gaines

William Maxwell Gaines was an American comic book publisher, writer and editor. He is best known for publishing EC Comics and Mad Magazine and for his testimony to U.S. Congress in 1954 regarding the content of comic books in the pre-code ...

MAD magazine injects humor into exam room reading choices

MAD magazine injects humor into exam room reading choices - Lost in PECOS . As serious as we must be dealing with our patients' ailments, we physicians must maintain a sense of humor, if for nothing else but to keep our own sanity.. I ...
Here's Andy Griffith's wonderful 1953 story about the day he first encountered that phenomenon called football. The illustrations may look familiar:

two years ago

Question: Where do you look for inspiration?. I certainly was a fan of Mad magazine growing up, especially the Mad comics - the Harvey Kurtzman ones before it became a magazine. And I ... You know, I think Animal House is a nearly perfect ...

George Charles Woodbridge

Jan. 20, 2004, Staten Island, N.Y.), had his beautifully detailed cross-hatched pen-and-ink drawings-caricatures and satiric works-featured in nearly every issue of Mad magazine for almost 50 years and also created fine, carefully researched drawings for military history books. Considered his most ...

David Berg

May 16, 2002, Marina del Rey, Calif.), began contributing to Mad magazine in 1956 and in 1961 introduced the monthly "The Lighter Side of ... " strip, which in 365 issues featured his own self-caricature (named Roger Kaputnik) in humorous observations of the foibles ...

Lower East Side

One doesn't often see Al Jaffee, creator of Mad magazine's ingenious Fold-in visual gags, credited as a serious artistic influence, but his citation on the gallery statement for Melissa Brown's first solo show at Canada makes perfect sense. Repurposing ...
MAD fan lands dream when magazine publishes photo of mascot's face in CDsIt's always been a mad MAD world for Neil Cuadra. The 55-year-old Internet entrepreneur has photographed a portrait he made of MAD magazine mascot Alfred E. Neuman's ...

What, me no laugh at parody?

MAD Magazine is getting the last laugh now that Circuit City has issued a mea culpa for telling employees to destroy issues of MAD that contain a parody of the retailer's advertising. In the letter, Circuit City apologizes for its "knee-jerk ...
Tweet In this week's episode, MAD's Maddest Writer Dick DeBartolo stops by to discuss some neat gadgets and the history of MAD Magazine. After that, Don talks with Bob Perry of Panasonic about the state of the HDTV industry and ...