Mad magazine to end new publications.

i actually thought they had stopped years ago.

 

I just read the headline on CNN. What a hilarious magazine.

 

I enjoyed Mad Magazine when I was a kid. I eventually outgrew it because it got too lame. The fold-ins at the back cover, and the comics by Sergio Aragones, were my favorites.

 

Back cover fold ins ughhhh why ruin a perfectly good magazine??

 

Haven't read it in years but loved it when i was kid.

 

MAD has contained some brilliant satire over the years, but it has always maintained a PG rating and that doesn't cut it anymore. And of course many print magazines are failing due to the internet.

Goodbye Alfred E. Neuman! We wish you luck in all your future endeavors!

 

Trump curse strikes again.. TBH. I thought the shitrag went out of business long time ago. Might of been the 4th grade the last time I seen one and held one. Carter was probably president .. Didnt get the humor .. I was more a Heavy Metal comic fan. Omni was my 1st most read magazine when I was a kid.

 

The August issue is out so I guess it's the last one. Funny but on their website they're still trying to sell subscriptions!

 

I just don't even find the illustrations very attractive. Especially the one up there with the open mouth. It's gross. And that kid is just ugly anyway.

 

I'm just so glad I kind of wasn't.

 

I own a reprint of that 1952 first issue. It’s somewhere in my parents’ attic.

If I recall, Mad wasn’t a satire comic book back then. It was more of a graphic novel magazine.

Their competitor “Cracked” was a Mad magazine knock-off that I also liked reading. But they became a Buzzfeed website knock off several years ago.

 

Some of the funniest stuff was in the marginals. I'm going to miss being able to grab a new copy off the stand.

 

I thought this was kind of sad, although I don't purchase it anymore so I'm probably part of the problem. I used to LOVE Mad Magazine when I was growing up though. Would get them fairly frequently.

 

I've not read MAD for 20+ yr; however, there was a time during jr. hi & hi skool when I learned to read w/ MAD & learned to remember entire exchanges among characters, because I read them over & over.

One time in h.s., we had to write a book report in class. I'd read Louis Nizer's My Life in Court & quoted several sentences from it. I got an "F" on my book report because we weren't to have the book w/ us in class, I didn't, but the teacher thought I could not have quoted from the book w/o having it in front of me.