Anyone here read Mad Magazine?

[Zorak Masaki]

(note: if this belongs on the entertainment or comics board then simply transfer it there)
Is anyone here a fan of Mad Magazine? I used to be a huge fan around 86-94, myself, but i kind of lost interest around 95. I still pick up the occasional issue though and its good to see that mort drucker (probably mad's best artist with the exception of the late don martin) is still doing good artwork on the movie satires. However, stuff like "monroe" needs to go.
(im not even going to talk about "cracked", i used to like it but the newer issues are unreadable)

[Artimus Gigan]

I get it


I also own the Antology that contains every single issue(regular and special) ever made up to 1997 IIRC

[Martianinvader]

I don't, but I'm wondering if someone could scan in the latest cover, which has the Family Guy characters as Simpsons characters. I thought that looked great, despite the fact that it was done to once again bring up a dead argument.

[Speedy Boris]

Back in my early teens. Not since then, though.

['Stute Fish]

I always used to read and re-read my dad's old back issues of Mad as a kid, which were mostly from the late '70s-early '80s, plus some of the old paperbacks with sports or entertainment themes or collected Don Martin. Also bought the more recent hardback with the collected first few issues of comic-book style Mad, which is fantastic. Never actually picked up an issue from a magazine rack, though; neat to hear Drucker is still doing his great artwork for it.

[sun]

I forgot to add in another thread that my collection, goes back to l959, those are raggady, but got a l961(,Nixon on one side, Kennedy on the other).... in mint conditon...Lots of good satire there at one time..do not know if it is still as good as it was. Stiipped collecting sometime in the 70s ......................What me worry?

[Chris Wood]

I also own the Antology that contains every single issue(regular and special) ever made up to 1997 IIRC

Wow! That would be awesome. Must be incredibly expensive though. I used to read MAD all the time, but not since the 80s. Sometime in the last decade it seem to have undergone a radical format change. The movie/TV parodies are still great, but the other stuff seems kind of lame. It seems like they're targeting a younger audience than before.

[Kury Wagner]

The last issue I bought was the one parodying X2: X-Men United. Actually, now that I think of it, someone gave that to me; I didn't buy it.

Anyhoo, my sister used to read it often, so I stole her copies, but she stopped reading a few years before she moved out (so about seven years or so ago). I used to like the "Lighter Side of...".

[candy17]

The first MAD Magazine I bought had Charlie Brown strangling Lucy on the cover (it was a parody of new Charlie Brown comics now that Charles Schultz has died). I lost it, though.:(

I do occasionally pick up a current issue and the current issues aren't that bad (despite that many have said that the magazine started to go downhill when William Gaines died and when they ran real ads in it instead of fake ones [they still have the fake ones]), but I want to see the collections from when MAD magazine was really good (between the 1950's to the 1980's).

I would discuss how MAD TV is nothing like the magazine (I see Laugh-In, SNL [during its good seasons], and maybe In Living Color [before the talented Wayans brothers left] as a good adaptation of MAD magazine since all three of them have juvenile humor that's also smart and sharp and how they make fun of anything and everything), but that's another topic for another day

[Mynd Hed]

Back when I was in the seventh grade, my school library had a pretty nice collection of back issues which I'd read in class to my teachers' dismay. After working my way through the library's collection, I started up a subscription, but after a cross-country move I never bothered to renew it.

For a while I would sporadically pick up an issue or two at the newstand when I needed some light reading material for things like plane trips or waiting rooms, but each time the ha-ha value would drop by wider and wider margins. These days I avoid it at all costs-- no matter how good the cover looks, I'd rather keep my memories of Mad as a paragon of juvenile humor at its finest intact rather than barter them for the one, MAYBE two cheap chuckles that are all I seem to be able to find between its covers any more.

[Good Ol' Batmanuel!]

I liked certain things about Mad (Don Martin stuff, mostly), but not too much overall. I much preferred Cracked. Nowadays, though, I wouldn't waste my money on either. :p

[Alex Toon]

Yeah, I read MAD often. It's still funny to me and they DO point out flaws in life and make interesting one-liners.
Cracked is still around? I thought it went out of business.

[atf487]

I don't, but I'm wondering if someone could scan in the latest cover, which has the Family Guy characters as Simpsons characters. I thought that looked great, despite the fact that it was done to once again bring up a dead argument.
http://www.dccomics.com/media/excerpts/4527_x.pdf

I almost bought the magazine. I used to love family guy, but i can't really stand most of it anymore, so naturally I loved the cover.