Lovely excerpt that gives a good general overview of Mad history and highlights!
I was an avid reader as a child in the late 60s to early 70s. I eventually moved on to National Lampoon as a teen, but Mad will always glow in my childhood memory heart.
I still have a decent-sized collection of Mad paperbacks. Many (most, all?) were written by a single Mad artist/writer. My favorites of these were ones written by Don Martin and Al Jaffee.
kstrauser 2 hours ago [-]
I learned to read by sitting on my dad's lap and sounding out the effects from "Don Martin Drops 13 Stories". Thought I didn't understand what I was looking at, the sounds were the funniest thing ever to little me. I had to track down a copy of my own to show my kids when they were little, and they felt the same way.
I (dis)credit Mad for developing a lifelong mix of sarcasm with sincerity, skepticism with optimism. It was exactly the right food for my young brain.
eludwig 3 minutes ago [-]
>> lifelong mix of sarcasm with sincerity, skepticism with optimism
Love this, perfectly said. Or, in the words of Don Martin, Thook Zak Splak KWOP!
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I was an avid reader as a child in the late 60s to early 70s. I eventually moved on to National Lampoon as a teen, but Mad will always glow in my childhood memory heart.
I still have a decent-sized collection of Mad paperbacks. Many (most, all?) were written by a single Mad artist/writer. My favorites of these were ones written by Don Martin and Al Jaffee.
I (dis)credit Mad for developing a lifelong mix of sarcasm with sincerity, skepticism with optimism. It was exactly the right food for my young brain.
Love this, perfectly said. Or, in the words of Don Martin, Thook Zak Splak KWOP!