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That's amazing. I grew up reading Mad, and his name along with artists Sergio Aragones, Antonio Prohia, Don Martin, and Dave Berg became very familiar. It was a
by ilamont 6y ago
That's amazing. I grew up reading Mad, and his name along with artists Sergio Aragones, Antonio Prohia, Don Martin, and Dave Berg became very familiar. It was a great introduction to satire and humor from about ages 8 to 13.
Besides the humor, one of the other things that set Mad apart from most other magazines was there were no ads. The business was sustained by newsstand sales and subscriptions by loyal readers.
- nkozyra 6y agoAds always seemed to be an inevitability but it was amazing they made it into the 90s without them. I long wondered if it would have been better to give in earlier and if that would have spoiled their voice.
- DrScump 6y agoMAD had great ads... for its own subscriptions. When I was a kid (and subscriber!), their ads had a common theme "Why kill yourself... because you missed the last issue of MAD at the newsstand?" combined with a cartoon of a new inventive method of suicide being attempted by the forlorn reader.
- simonblack 6y agoI remember one particularly. It showed a man in a German WW2 helmet saying "Nein! And zat's what der dumpkopfs did, zey sent me nine" (issues of MAD)" for the price of eight!"