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The article mentions the "staff’s storied annual trips to far-flung vacation spots" that were paid for by the magazine. I recall years ago hearing an interview
by drfuchs 6y ago
The article mentions the "staff’s storied annual trips to far-flung vacation spots" that were paid for by the magazine. I recall years ago hearing an interview in which one of them told the story that one year they vacationed in the Dominican Republic(?), where they had a single subscriber in the whole country. So, the entire crew showed up at his house to deliver that month's issue.
- milquetoastaf 6y agoIt was Haiti. https://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2012/12/13/totally-mad-excerpt-what-were-the-mad-trips https://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2012/12/13/totally-mad-exce...
- lifeisstillgood 6y agowow ... >>> Especially if the trips were stag. “I never met two wives who could get along with each other,” Gaines said at the time. “Bringing wives on the trips would divide the convivial MAD group into cliques. The wives would spend so much on clothing trying to outdo each other that it would cost the boys a fortune, and I can’t see any point to that.”
- new2628 6y agoHe has a point though.
- milquetoastaf 6y agoThese guys (and it was all guys) were from a completely different generation. I mean, I don't even know what to say to Gaines' answer in this interview[0] RINGGENBERG: How would you describe yourself politically, Mr. Gaines? GAINES: I am part-liberal, part-conservative. It depends on which part you're talking about. In foreign policy I'm a conservative. In domestic policy, in things having to do with sex, abortion, pornography, and what have you, I'm completely liberal. RINGGENBERG: So I guess you feel that almost anything goes as far as publishing? GAINES: Yep. RINGGENBERG: What about something like child pornography? GAINES: I personally have no objection to it. They might arrest the guys for what they did to the kids, but I don't have any objection to the pictures they took. [0]http://www.comic-art.com/intervws/gaines11.htm http://www.comic-art.com/intervws/gaines11.htm
- lostlogin 6y agoIt reads like something from Madmen, but came first.
- schoen 6y agoThis is somehow especially funny to me since I remember a Mad feature about the extreme and impractical lengths to which magazines concerned about their circulation numbers would go to impress and retain subscribers. Maybe there was a little bit of disguised autobiography in there!