Mad Magazine calls it quits.
I almost ran this on the Death thread but felt it deserved better. So much a part of my life, especially in my early teens. There was nothing like it then, nor since. Truly brilliant, it made me fall in love with magazines, because I realized that comics, which I already loved, could do grown up stuff. It made me love illustration because I'd never seen pictures that looked anything like that before. I remember exactly the first time I saw a copy, at school when I was eleven years old. I knew then that one day I would visit the USA, because this magnificent printed object was just about the most un-British thing I'd ever set eyes on, and I had to understand the place and people that could produce it.
Now it's gone. In truth it should have disappeared at least a couple of decades ago (when it began taking ads for sure.) All great publications tend to outlive their time and Mad was no exception. It was a child of the American fifties, and remains an exceptional window into that time and place. I'll won't miss it, though it's back-issues remain treasures.
I almost ran this on the Death thread but felt it deserved better. So much a part of my life, especially in my early teens. There was nothing like it then, nor since. Truly brilliant, it made me fall in love with magazines, because I realized that comics, which I already loved, could do grown up stuff. It made me love illustration because I'd never seen pictures that looked anything like that before. I remember exactly the first time I saw a copy, at school when I was eleven years old. I knew then that one day I would visit the USA, because this magnificent printed object was just about the most un-British thing I'd ever set eyes on, and I had to understand the place and people that could produce it.
Now it's gone. In truth it should have disappeared at least a couple of decades ago (when it began taking ads for sure.) All great publications tend to outlive their time and Mad was no exception. It was a child of the American fifties, and remains an exceptional window into that time and place. I'll won't miss it, though it's back-issues remain treasures.
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