What, Me Worry?

[gofuckyourself 8195]

Posted on the celeb death thread it appears but deserves some Lulz recognition. I'm of the age where Mad magazine was still iconic, effectively satirical, occasionally subversive and sometimes even humorous.

And I definitely loved the Fold-In.

https://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2023/04/10/al-jaffee-tribute

Edited April 11, 2023 by gofuckyourself

[Covri 6244]

Grew up reading mad magazine in the 80s and 90s and it definitely had as much influence as anything on my sense of humor. 

[Upgrayedd 5810]

Mom got me a year’s subscription for a birthday.  They ended up sending them to me for like 5 years.

i still have a bunch stowed away in the attic.

[HamsterHookah 112]

Would buy them at the grocery store.

[deadshank 24652]

The sounds of my childhood that I still use to this day.

[Prepuce of Doom 21052]

I don't trust anyone who is old enough to like Mad Magazine but doesn't. 

[Guest]

I remember reading a letter to the editor in MAD, where they were complaining about something and ended it with "dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb."

The response was "Thank you for your letter, but why did you end it with the theme from Dragnet?" 

For some reason I thought that was hilarious.

[WhatTheBuck 28771]

RIP. Al’s in the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest career as a comic artist (77 years).

[GoPokes83 2240]

Mad and then National Lampoon helped make me the dumb/smart ass I am today! Cracked was a very distant 3rd.

[Underdog 28543]

Loved the magazine but Up the Academy sucked. 

[UTCzech III 2907]

Loved Mad because every artist had their own style, you knew who it was immediately - Jack Davis, Al Jaffe, Dave Berg, Sergio Aragones, Don Martin.  

[Rimbo 25908]

o7

[Bender Bending Rodriguez 1678]

Mad and (to a lesser extent) Cracked were long drive staples growing up as a kid. I’ll echo above about it having a profound impact on my sense of humor. RIP

[Bullneck 19070]

2 hours ago, GoPokes83 said:

Mad and then National Lampoon helped make me the dumb/smart ass I am today! Cracked was a very distant 3rd.

I was wracking my brain to remember what the other magazine was.

Remember this: The man who thinks for himself smokes Vicejoy cigarettes because everyone else does.

Edited April 12, 2023 by Bullneck

[Covri 6244]

2 hours ago, UTCzech III said:

Loved Mad because every artist had their own style, you knew who it was immediately - Jack Davis, Al Jaffe, Dave Berg, Sergio Aragones, Don Martin.  

The little Sergio drawings in the margins were always great little doodles you stumbled across on second and third read throughs. 

[Longboard Horn 40283]

I still have a lot of my Mad Magazines. Instant classics 

[Armybrat 40814]

I started reading Mad in 1954, then through high school. Slacked off after that until my kids bought one now & then during the 1980s.

 

[Steamboat1874 4048]

Loved Spy versus Spy

[huge 3793]

1 hour ago, Steamboat1874 said:

Loved Spy versus Spy

What's that anyway?

 

It was a red letter day at camp when you got a care package that included a MAD Magazine.

[Steamboat1874 4048]

1 hour ago, huge said:

What's that anyway?

 

It was a red letter day at camp when you got a care package that included a MAD Magazine.

Avatar certainly checks out !

[Rimbo 25908]

8 hours ago, Steamboat1874 said:

Loved Spy versus Spy

 

7 hours ago, huge said:

What's that anyway?

 

It was a red letter day at camp when you got a care package that included a MAD Magazine.

My first year at summer camp, I was sick for most of it, and ended up basically living inside some Spy vs Spy collections the nurse's station had.