https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48865342 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mad-magazine-winding-down_n_5d1da141e4b04c48140eed2e https://fortune.com/2019/07/04/mad-magazine-shutting-down/
Mad was without a doubt the very best political satire publication of the 20th century. No politician or political party was immune and everyone who deserved it got skewered. My mother got my brothers and I a monthly subscription in the mid 60’s and it went a very long way towards forming our opinions and ideas because it told the truth on every page. I also learned very young that those who didn’t “get it” were likely to never going to get it and that was their loss. Mad Magazine will be missed. I hope the kids of today find another publication that will amuse them while informing and educating them like Mad did for my generation and the ones who followed. A sad day for America.
I don't think it became what you remember until about your era. I recall the goofy looking guy but, I can remember it ripping Eisenhower or Kennedy. I think that Political stuff got on a roll with them during Johnson's time and probably hit the top with Nixon. In the last half the 50s I was out of the country much of the time, and then nearly up to the arse in alligators that came with new generations of Computers, that were all consuming, not to mentions stuff like Operating Systems.
Say it ain't so. I remember reading that magazine back in the mid 50s. Now excuse me while I go shed a tear.
In NJ, we have an Alfred E Newman (dressed as a lumberjack statue without an axe) on the Seaside Heights boardwalk. There is also a statue on Rt. 537 in Jackson. Apparently NJ was infected with the MAD culture. I'll miss it too.
Always loved their Star Trek parody: https://trekkerscrapbook.com/2012/1...tar-bleeech-the-original-mad-magazine-parody/
