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I'll miss Mad, it's what I read as a kid waiting to get my hair cut. If you knew how the magazine was produced you could sense this day was coming. They are leg
by pg_bot 7y ago
I'll miss Mad, it's what I read as a kid waiting to get my hair cut. If you knew how the magazine was produced you could sense this day was coming. They are legendary for having staff members with 30-50 year careers. For example the guy who does the fold-ins, (every one of them has been made by one guy - Al Jaffee) is 98 and has been with the magazine for 64 years. The young guys in the office are likely in their 60's. Combine that with the decline in print media in general and I don't see a reasonable way to continue production.
- thinkingkong 7y agoAl Jaffee also wrote all the “snappy answers to stupid questions” which is basically a bible for funny. If you havent had the chance to read them Id highly suggest it.
- mynameishere 7y agoA bible for grinding a bit into the ground over decades. The book version of those had little blank templates so the reader could write his own "Snappy Answers". Why the hell not? I think Homer's were as good as any: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb3aDRoO8Sw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb3aDRoO8Sw ...I guess I'm a downer. Did you know Chevy Chase wrote gags for MAD? They had a lot of outside writers like that. Even Don Martin (whose cartoons seemed pretty straightforward, even if he was the "maddest") used writers for jokes.
- Stratoscope 7y agoAl Jaffee is still there? That is (or was?) awesome. I was a fan of his when I was a kid in the late 1950s.
- milquetoastaf 7y agoHe still makes fold-ins for every issue!
- vermontdevil 7y agoHe said: "Serious people my age are dead" Loved that quote