So happy that Mad magazine had a huge impact on you and inspired you to draw. Was tragic to hear that it finished in the states last year. The UK version ended way back in early 1994, but for the right price I’m still collecting back issues of UK & US issues to this day. The early cover art by Norman Mingo and Kelly Freas were the best. I stumbled across The early 60’s publications of the magazines and small books that my dad had stashed in our shed, that he had saved since his childhood. Been a crazy fan ever since :-)
Peace my friends I am 78 years old and still have a few copies of MAD around someplace. I had a friend in the 50's, his older brother collected MAD comics and when he wasn't home we would read them. Good memories.
As a kid and in my early teens, I was a big fan, and still have great memories about MAD. As an adult, I can recognize that in those days it was not the most sophisticated satire, but always well-drawn, and even when it was not brilliant, it was a great primer on how humor works, how humorous writing and drawing is structured, and what jokes are supposed to look like and sound like. MAD taught several generations how to be funny -- many of the kids who learned humor from it went on to true greatness, and for them it all began with MAD.
MAD must live on no matter what. Let the new generation of people look up the back issues of MAD magazines online. If your the todays people kids and adults who haven't seen any issues of MAD magazines from the past decades. Now it's time to go online to look up the back issues of MAD.
the 1950s work was the best art and stories. i get up on mad in sth 1970s and 80s bu the 50s stuff was always reprinted and it was the best. Tkmeless stuff.
@@REPORTEVERYLIBERALCOMMENT I feel the same way... with the exception of perhaps my oldest daughter who is 41 now.. kids today for the most part.. do not "get".. the significance of MAD.. what a great piece of Americana...
Please don't stop to do videos! Your style is awesome! Don't stop! I'm from Argentina and i use your videos to practice english, your voice is so clear and great! Please don't stop! A hug my friend from Latin America.
The first issue I ever laid eyes on did a spoof of the Six Million Dollar Man. I was fascinated by all the renderings and particularly loved the little doodles purposely placed inside the gutters of the pages.
80's & 90's?! You young whipper snappers! Lol I grew up first buying MAD Magazine from the 'news stand' (what's that?) or the drug store, then eventually subscribing, and religiously reading it every week all the while during the entire 1960's. Back when MAD was really the only publication of its kind and there was absolutely nothing remotely like it. When it's kind of entertainment media was exclusively printed on paper. The now antiquated printed page... I can still smell the ink and pulp paper to this day. But I guess I should, I was inhailing it daily for a decade, it was a ubiquitous part of my childhood and early adolescence. And that of my siblings & friends too of course. How awesome it is though, that it lasted for over 60 years, and that multiple generations of youths have been so lucky, as we all were, to have grown up with MAD... Alfred, and all the other marvel, hilarious, and familiar characters found only between its pages... RIP
That's the beauty of its longevity. My mother and my uncles on my mothers side used to read it in the 60's and 70's and my late uncle on my dad's side remembers the 50's comics. I picked up the habit in 1996 and loved every minute of what I read up until the 2018 reboot
mAd used to foster a sense of scepticism. The virus had a survival rate of 99.97%@@garyrossingtonfan1833 It was a scam that took many human rights away and brought our economy to a bad place while many rich people made record prophets. The sceptics were censored. The old mad would've mocked it but he later mad with advertisements was bought and gutless for the most part.
I had a subscription because you couldn't get hold of an issue here in England outside of London. When I was at university in London, I used to look forward to buying a copy of the latest issue each time I went through London Victoria train station at the newsstand on my home for the holidays. When I graduated, and returned to the middle of nowhere countryside where my parents lived, that's when I got a subscription as it was the only way to get my fix! I used to look forward to getting each issue come through my letterbox so much! So sad it's now gone, but I kept all the issues over the years anyway.
Wow. Be grateful that MAD made a huge influence in your life. It’s never a goodbye when it stays close to you for a long time and even forever. (Also, I love Publix. Their chocolate chips are amazing)
Shucks, MAD magazines was part of my childhood from the 1960s, into the 1970s. The books, and magazines were, oh so funny. I learned about satire reading MAD. And I also liked Crack mag too!
This is such a sweet video. I've been collecting merchandise from the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movie series, and just purchased a copy of the Spider-Man 3 edition of Mad Magazine off of Facebook last night! I was somewhat familiar with Mad Magazine but I learned so much from this video. I can really feel how sentimental it is to you. Thank you for sharing and really great work!
I believe Al Jaffee is the oldest surviving Mad Magazine illustrator left. I still have my first 1970 issue that I bought with newspaper carrier money. I’ll be cremated with it.
Loved your thought ; "I'll be cremated with it." But then, you'd be reducing to ashes one heirloom that could be passed on. What if you made limited copies of that 1970 issue, and handed it out to all those who attend the service?
@@A0A4ful I’ll probably have a very lightly attended funeral. Plus, most of the people don’t understand satire. Especially in this woke society we are living in. Thanks for the idea though. It was a good one.
@@rancosteel Ha ha ha ! So true! - I sometimes wonder, if and when, this 'woke society' is complete in its fully evolved form, what will they do for a simple human need of laughter. Since we won't be allowed to laugh at each other anymore. Regarding the limited pirated copies of the 1970 issue, please don't forget to send copies to the families of all the contributing gang of idiots (living and/or dead) too.
@@A0A4ful It’s only Al Jaffee and Sergio Aragones still left I believe. Everyone else has passed away. Mort Drucker was my favorite hands down. I believe he was the finest character illustrator of all time IMO.
MAD Magazine landed me in detention Hall once or twice while in high school during the 1960s. It influenced my artwork throughout my life! I even was an artist for a time on a short lived underground newspaper!
MAD was brilliant, as were all the EC comics. Unrelated, but National Lampoon was brilliant too. The humor print magazine is a sad part of the past, but a beloved part of entertainment in many of our lives. I enjoyed your video and your artwork is pretty great too.
Always remembered their NO SACRED COWS policy towards all forms of pop culture. My earliest MAD memory was around 1991 in Reading, Pennsylvania. Visiting my grandparents out there, my mom and grandma took me to the local Weis Supermarket. What caught my eye as I looked towards the magazine racks? Yup, MAD Magazine. Never got my mom to buy it. Just snuck a quick look inside. Got to look at a parody of THE FRESH PRINCE OF BEL-AIR! Ah, memories...❤
I wish I kept up with mad magazine as a kid. I only bought an issue here and there when it caught my eye at a store. Something about comic books and old school zines.
I really loved MAD growing up in Australia in the early 2000's. I had a monthly subscription to the USA version and some of the best afternoons of my life were running down to the letterbox at the end of the driveway and finding that months issue had just arrived and sitting on the side of the street reading it on my own. Mad wasn't just a magazine, it was a friend.
My first issue of MAD was in spring 1964 with issue 87... I saw a goofy picture of an upside down kid in striped stockings busting through a trampoline.. and so instead of spending my money on a Jack n Jill Magazine I bought MAD instead... I was surprised that my mother liked it more than I did... I thought to myself.. I finally bonded with the adult world... since we both enjoyed MAD... over the years I occasionally bought a MAD mag here and there.. but never really collected them.. then with the passing of Bill Gaines. around the fall of 1992.... I thought to myself... these may be collectable someday.. so with issue 314..... I quickly went and searched for all the past issues I missed.. and began a subscription.. so I would not miss any more... I now have issues 1-550 of the first batch and issues 1-20 of the second batch from L.A... also 100's of paperbacks... specials.. and other memorabilia.....pins.. games cards coins.. pins ..t-shirts... etc...
Wow what a super collection. I have about 20 70s issues and specials here now, and about a dozen Cracked issues... I'd love to add a few more but no pan ic.
@@markinnes4264 I guess it helps being born when I was... I really had a charmed life... I remember as a kid.. seeing the newstands.. carrying the first issues.. of Spider-man.. I can remember the night as if it was yesterday.. in 1963.. when I was at the magazine rack thumbing. the rain was pouring outside.... thru issue 4 where Spiderman fights Sandman for the first time.. debating if I should buy it or not... I didn't since I was more into Disney.. and looney toons comics at the age of 8.. but I thought it was interesting.. as kids.. at 12 years old.. I started getting into the super hero comics.. and many of the first few issues.. of Marvels and D.C.'s were all over.. often us kids would get together and swap out those early issues... a friend of a friend told me that he knew this kid that was selling his comics.. so for 5.00 I got the first fifty issues of X-men and the Avengers.. or just 5.00.. wish I would have kept those X-men.. I traded them to someone in the 80's for an Atari 5200 and about 20 games.. for a while an older kid in the neighborhood was selling his garaged comics for a nickel... that is where I picked up the first appearance of Thor.. Journey Into Mystery 83... Just for a nickel.. being born in 1955... exposed me to all sorts of new things.. and becoming aware of Mad magazine.. a few months before I turned 9... was one of them.. I remember spending a quarter on it.. (back then they had no sales tax where I live).... and I got it home.. and my mother got a bigger kick out of it than I did.. she got the humor.. that issue in particular has a big spoof on cigarette ads.. and my mom was a smoker.. I knew I did good when I got a magazine that made my mother laugh... I periodically bought Mad over the years.. but I did not get serious over Mad until 1992 when I read the William Gaines died.. then I knew.. they might be worth something.. so I started buying up all the many back issues.. many still aren't worth anything.. but the thrill.. is in collecting.. isn't it..?..
I used to get Mad in the 1960s, the little 'tuck shop' just outside the school carried it, the draughtsmanship was superb, the creativity unmatched, it enabled me to keep abreast of trends without having to invest so much time money and effort in actually participating in them. The fold-ins were splendid, spy vs spy always brought a smile in the same way the road runner cartoons did, the re-worded songs were clever and I still remember a couple of the poems from 'If Xxxx wrote Yyyy' series ('Twas the day of the battle, but all through the slaughter, not a creature was moving, we all needed water'. It's a bit of a desert out there these days.
@@jeffcarlson3269 Old British term for a small shop, either on school premises or immediately outside school bounds where pupils could purchase things like pencils, ink and (most importantly) sweets or 'tuck' hence the expression 'tucking-in' (ie eating).
@@mikesmith2905 oh yeah... Now I understand... when I was a kid.. there used to be those about every two or three blocks or so.. usually on corners.. and many were just little brick buildings.. where one could go in and buy candy at the counter.. or trading cards... smokes..etc... they used to call those "mom and pop stores".. here... since mostly they were ran buy a family or just and elderly couple... I miss those antiquated shops for their simplicity... sadly when the larger grocery chains moved in.. it forced a lot of those smaller stores to close since they could not compete.. with the bargains the larger stores could offer.... kids of today.. will never know the joys.. of buying penny candies.. or even nickel candy bars.. right off the counter from a bin in front of the cash registers... or the fun of looking over the comics or magazines of the rack.. and huddling off somewhere in the store flipping thru the pages before deciding whether to buy it or not..
@@jeffcarlson3269 The 'tuck shop' appellation was specifically associated with schools (I believe it originated in the 'public schools', which in the UK are actually very expensive fee-paying schools). The family owned shop was the cornerstone of commerce and of local communities for several thousand years before the current trend for 'corporate socialism' took hold. In the UK the nearest to those you describe would be the small 'newsagents' (selling newspapers and magazines but with sidelines in just about anything you could think of), sadly those that remain are mostly merely 'chain stores' staffed by a minder who is given a 'Manager' badge but no authority. The supermarkets began stocking the newspapers, which were already a less common purchase, killing off any remaining independent newsagents. The kids today are offered the same set of items in the various chain stores (all of whom use similar algorithms) and for anything out of the ordinary they are condemned to 'click and pray' on-line shopping, which has had the knock-on effect of making quality toys very hard to find (there is plenty of 'merchandising' but that is designed to be put up in the attic along with the limited edition pet rock to be sold to a collector at some future date). The corporate socialist model cannot compete on quality (that is an on-going cost, and advertising blitz is a one-off expense) and has little room for niche products such as satirical magazines, so sadly Mad Magazine (and in the UK Punch magazine) are no longer freely available. I haven't seen any new 'superman' style comics out there either. Ideology has a lot to answer for, there again I am old and hence entitled to be grumpy.
Good video. I have a decent collection of Mad, a few Cracked, and even Crazy magazines. Mort Drucker, George Woodbridge, Frank Jacobs, Tom Richmond, and Dick DeBartolo were some of my favorites. Old issues can be found on Ebay at reasonable prices.
I was into redrawing content form both Mad and Cracked, but that was around 1978. Angelo Torres and Mort Drucker were my favorite. I stopped getting it around the time Bill Gaines died, and the magazine began to have ads.
We were at a Dollar General last night and I saw a MAD compilation magazine of all their Sci Fi movie and tv spoofs over the years and I had to get it. Driving home my wife said I had a permagrin on my face. So many people deify Kerouac or Salinger but I really think Bill Gaines and his Usual Gang of Idiots were my heroes as a kid, but I didn't realize it until I was an adult. I've drawn most of my life too, and like a lot of things you don't realize what you had til it's gone. Goodbye MAD magazine. And RIP Mort Drucker....so sad to hear he passed last year (same month as my parents...2020 truly sucked.) Thanks for this video.
I love reading magazines & especially MAD. I had to stop the casual enjoyment of it because the prices became WAY beyond the impulse buy prices. It hurts
The first issue of MAD to fall into my grubby little hands was no. 266, the "Hot TV Issue," back in 1986. It was purchased from a little grocery store store magazine rack (no doubt as Mom rolled her eyes) for a long family drive up to Niagara Falls, during which I wrung the rag for every tiny detail; [sigh] I remember so much about that trip: _The Lighter Side Of...,_ _Spy vs. Spy,_ _Snappy Answers...,_ oh, and some big dumb waterfall.
I first got into MAD magazine in the early 1970s when I was about 11 or 12. One of the kids in my class (Anthony Day) used to bring copies in, and also let me borrow a number of the MAD paperback books (I think Anthony must have known someone in America). My favourite artist was always Don Martin, especially for the crazy sound effects. I remember being intrigued and confused by some of the cultural references in the magazine (e.g. 24 hour diners, flashy high winged cars, take away pizza!) which just heightened the sense of divide between the UK and USA at the time. I still have some of the old paperbacks, but this video has only made me want to buy more of them and copies of the magazine!
I remember coming home from school early in 1966 and catching my father reading my Mad and listening to my newest Bob Dylan album. He was cooler than he let on in front of Mom. 😊😅
@johnchandler1687 Not MY dad... he hated any of the groups from the 60's.. he was a WWII vet.. so Frank Sinatra was HIS speed.. he wouldn't have been caught DEAD with a MAD in his hands.. but my mom and I would often read them together as I sat on her lap.. I bought my first MAD when I was 8... she loved them.. I still remember how she would laugh at the humor and often times would have to explain it to my small child mind..
@@jeffcarlson3269 My father served on a cruiser in the Pacific. He liked all types of music and was an avid reader of anything. He bought a stereo in 1964 so we could buy records. The good old Zenith Surround Sound.
Love it when my pap bought me a mad magazine ,I think it came with stickers or cards, the red head character on the magazine reminded me of a young opi Taylor with exaggerated feature's this is really going back ,saddened me to see an ending it was quite remarkable and a little dark but I loved it ,grandfather as well ,you are right ,digital transferred to end a lot of things you are so right.great seeing these again I think of my pap. Thanks to you. You said clearly internet changed all ,we are on phones ,no more frisbee ,no more magazines ,many more will be no longer . Kids will stream movies and not go to movie theaters.
From the age of about 10 to 14, it was my favorite magazine. It easily won over my earlier passion for comic books. Like you, I tried to emulate the excellent caricatures of Mort Drucker and Jack Davis. I also liked Paul Coker and Don Martin.
I occasionally check out the digital MAD issues. Not the same as curling up on the couch, holding a dog eared print issue in my hands and getting a deja vu giggle now and then... But we were fortunate to have that satire institution in our lifetimes, and one day, as with all good things, it too must come to an end. Atleast, I have many contemporaries with whom I can share some of those giggles, face to face, or on the phone, and on social media too. Till the end of our days.
In 1979 my youngest son (of 7 kids!) was taking care of pets across the street for a teacher while she was on vacation. I went with my son one day and way in back of the upstairs was the teacher’s son’s room. The door has a sign “enter at your own risk” and a picture of Alfred E Newman. Based on that my son associated Mad with the ‘big kids that will beat you up’. Fortunately my daughter, who was in college at the time, explained to my son that wasn’t the case!
no comparison...... MAD was definitely worth more than Cracked... the material of MAD.. took a lot longer to digest... a person really got their money's worth with MAD.... whenever I bought Cracked.. and I was done reading it within 1/2 an hour... I felt I wasted my money... never felt that way with MAD...
@@jeffcarlson3269 Cracked's writing wasn't;t as good. It sort of seemed like it was written by old guys. I loved it still though. Shut ups were great always. Severin's art was great. Sometimes Cracked had better art. Mad;'s writing was more cynical and snide. Cracked was innocent and good natured. I loved them both but Cracked had this positive quality, perhaps it was made for younger readers than mad? Sylvester P smythe.
@@MicahMicahel perhaps...yes ..I think perhaps that is why.. I found Cracked so easy finish off in a short amount of time... besides less textual content.. the humor was easier to understand many times...probably as you stated... geared for slightly younger readers.. I read a lot of Cracked magazines over the years... and I still have a few.. but in regards to Cracked Shut-ups... which were quick to read thru... MAD countered with Jaffee's .."Snappy answers to Stupid Questions.." which seemed to offer More to read and digest.. I agree ...... John Severin... was one of the best.. in fact.. I dare say...Cracked would Not have lasted as long as it did... if not for Severin's tireless contributions to that Magazine..
The real last issue was basically what they did @ the end of every year. I know because the DiCaprio issue wasn't the last issue I read in chronological order.
30 years ago as a kid i had a subscription to the Dutch MAD Magazine but some people nowadays still prefer printed media as i currently am subscribed to 5 magazines
I had a MAD subscription for about 20 years.... from the late 90's to 2019.. when I heard that MAD was done... so I quit with issue... 20 of the re-vamped MAD only to find that new re-releases of old MAD material.. was still being released quarterly.. and so from 2019 to 2023... I had missed roughly about 14 issues.. I used to buy these occasionally as a kid... my First issue.. I saw of MAD was issue 87.. spring of 1964.. as a kid I traded these back and forth.. then I grew out of them... but in 1992 I saw a newspaper article about how William Gaines.. the founder of MAD had died.. and I thought I'd better start collecting these they may be worth something.. I found a local comic shop that had about 200 issues for about a buck a piece. .and over the years.. I found the other ones I needed to complete my collection.. I know most of the material is old.. in the NEW issues.. but getting these new ones saves me from going thru my boxes of MADs and digging them out... also.. even with the departure of Al Jaffee.. the MAD fold outs.. on the back page of MADs are STILL being done fresh by a New artist.. and so 4 times a year.. there is a new "fold-in".. AND the covers for each issue are fresh.. and the contents pages//.. granted.. these will Never be considered rare or collectible.. since most of the material is re-vamped.. but there is something to be said.. about having EVERY issue.. with the exception of some of the MAD specials.. I have EVERY magazine issue of MAD.. and all of the New Mad s as well.. when I die.. someone will get ALL 6 boxes worth... and MOST all of my MAD s have Never had the back fold-in completely folded ..so they are in pristine condition as well... and mostly all in bags.. my subscription issues.. STILL have the subscription outer wrap around the complete magazine as well for protection..
I remember looking at them but unfortunately my reading skills suck which isn't surprising because I was about 10 at the time but I say the same for the artwork which explains more on what happening without reading words.
Enjoyed this, thanks. Hope you are still drawing regularly. Mad and Cracked were what led me to the magazine section at Kmart and while mom n dad shopped, they knew thats where I'd be. I wonder if this young Generation has so little sense of humor because nothing like these publications fosters a healthy sense of satire in their imagination. Its all snark and "well, that just happened" lazy humor.
I had 250 Mad Magazines at one point. Not sure where they all went. I was obsessed with them through the 90s and early 00s. But the magazine went downhill as soon as they went colour and I think a lot of the satire became a bit obvious and safe. I think there is still a place in the world for Mad Magazine but it needs a reimagining.
@@KHayes666 I was fortunate... I started buying them up in 1992 when I read William Gaines had died...they were on issue 314 or so at that time.. I immediately started buying them off of the newstands.. and then about 3 years later had a subscription for about 20 years.. within the first 2 years or so I was able to get every issue except the comics.. fairly cheaply... and then in 2020.. I bought the comic issues.. off E-bay.. AND the compete PANIC collection.. so Now I am fortunate enough to have EVERY issue.. of MAD.. andmost are in mint condition.. the fold-ins untouched.. the first month after Gaines died I stopped into a local comic shop here.. and they had 2 full boxes of MAD's in numerical order ..every issue.. from 88 - 250 or so... for Only 1 dollar each.. and ALL were sealed in protective bags with backings..so naturally I bought both boxes. .that was a big boost in helping me to get the complete set...of MAD's ... cuz when Gaines died I only had like 20 issues or less left from my childhood.. and they were like hit and miss.. issue wise.. back then MAD's I guess were Not that popular... the comic shop seemed glad to be getting rid of them..
@@CINEMATTOX i related to the vid a lot i first saw mad through the cartoon network show and recognized the logo on a magazine in a supermarket, ive got a collection now.
Shame the magazine not producing much new content anymore. We even had a Norwegian MAD magazine in the eighties. It folded after the Norwgian talent broke out and formed their own magazine Pyton which was a cruder version of MAD really.
I am similar to you but i didnt trace cartoons from the TV i record cartoons on VHS and put pause for the best scene in the episode and i draw them on big papers and color them with markers like Transformers and G.I. Joe i still have all these drawings from the early 90's until now
So happy that Mad magazine had a huge impact on you and inspired you to draw. Was tragic to hear that it finished in the states last year. The UK version ended way back in early 1994, but for the right price I’m still collecting back issues of UK & US issues to this day.
The early cover art by Norman Mingo and Kelly Freas were the best. I stumbled across The early 60’s publications of the magazines and small books that my dad had stashed in our shed, that he had saved since his childhood. Been a crazy fan ever since :-)
Bruh it's still alive.
I want to start collecting issues of Mad but I don't know where to start.
@@GagsAnimation get a subscription and then buy bundles on eBay and mercury, go to comic book stores/websites and find rarer or cheap magazines
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Grew up with MAD in the 60’s and 70’s. Priceless smart humor.
Peace my friends
I am 78 years old and still have a few copies of MAD around someplace. I had a friend in the 50's, his older brother collected MAD comics and when he wasn't home we would read them. Good memories.
I loved MAD back in the 80s!!! Big part of my childhood. Along with Star Wars of course.
same
I loved the MAD Magazine and enjoyed it in the late 1960s and 1970s, will miss it!!! Future generations will miss great humor and artwork!!!!
As a kid and in my early teens, I was a big fan, and still have great memories about MAD. As an adult, I can recognize that in those days it was not the most sophisticated satire, but always well-drawn, and even when it was not brilliant, it was a great primer on how humor works, how humorous writing and drawing is structured, and what jokes are supposed to look like and sound like. MAD taught several generations how to be funny -- many of the kids who learned humor from it went on to true greatness, and for them it all began with MAD.
In 1952 I was starting my first job and I got issues of Mad then
Mad magazine might be coming to an end but it will never be forgotten
MAD must live on no matter what. Let the new generation of people look up the back issues of MAD magazines online. If your the todays people kids and adults who haven't seen any issues of MAD magazines from the past decades. Now it's time to go online to look up the back issues of MAD.
Sadly they don't get it.
I've got 5 kids from 14 to 21 and they just don't care like we did.
The hazards of having children.
I've tried.
the 1950s work was the best art and stories. i get up on mad in sth 1970s and 80s bu the 50s stuff was always reprinted and it was the best. Tkmeless stuff.
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I feel the same way... with the exception of perhaps my oldest daughter who is 41 now.. kids today for the most part.. do not "get".. the significance of MAD.. what a great piece of Americana...
@@jeffcarlson3269 Truth.
Please don't stop to do videos! Your style is awesome! Don't stop!
I'm from Argentina and i use your videos to practice english, your voice is so clear and great! Please don't stop!
A hug my friend from Latin America.
I have a large stack of vintage MAD from the 80s and my childhood.
We'll never see artists like that again.
The first issue I ever laid eyes on did a spoof of the Six Million Dollar Man. I was fascinated by all the renderings and particularly loved the little doodles purposely placed inside the gutters of the pages.
Sergio Aragones!
I'm still subscribed to thrasher magazine. I'll always love it.
80's & 90's?!
You young whipper snappers! Lol
I grew up first buying MAD Magazine from the 'news stand' (what's that?) or the drug store,
then eventually subscribing, and religiously reading it every week all the while during the entire 1960's.
Back when MAD was really the only publication of its kind and there was absolutely nothing remotely like it. When it's kind of entertainment media was exclusively printed on paper. The now antiquated printed page...
I can still smell the ink and pulp paper to this day. But I guess I should, I was inhailing it daily for a decade, it was a ubiquitous part of my childhood and early adolescence. And that of my siblings & friends too of course.
How awesome it is though, that it lasted for over 60 years, and that multiple generations of youths have been so lucky, as we all were, to have grown up with MAD... Alfred, and all the other marvel, hilarious, and familiar characters found only between its pages...
RIP
That's the beauty of its longevity. My mother and my uncles on my mothers side used to read it in the 60's and 70's and my late uncle on my dad's side remembers the 50's comics. I picked up the habit in 1996 and loved every minute of what I read up until the 2018 reboot
When I was a kid, Mad was bread and butter for me and my friends. Thanks for covering this.
Its crazy how a MAD from 1956 on Elvis has the same bite as the newer ones
Mad magazine should have its next issue cover that reads ( The coronavirus. What ? Me worry )
Cheap!
That makes Zero sense
mAd used to foster a sense of scepticism. The virus had a survival rate of 99.97%@@garyrossingtonfan1833 It was a scam that took many human rights away and brought our economy to a bad place while many rich people made record prophets. The sceptics were censored. The old mad would've mocked it but he later mad with advertisements was bought and gutless for the most part.
I had a subscription because you couldn't get hold of an issue here in England outside of London. When I was at university in London, I used to look forward to buying a copy of the latest issue each time I went through London Victoria train station at the newsstand on my home for the holidays. When I graduated, and returned to the middle of nowhere countryside where my parents lived, that's when I got a subscription as it was the only way to get my fix! I used to look forward to getting each issue come through my letterbox so much! So sad it's now gone, but I kept all the issues over the years anyway.
Wow. Be grateful that MAD made a huge influence in your life. It’s never a goodbye when it stays close to you for a long time and even forever.
(Also, I love Publix. Their chocolate chips are amazing)
2 Magazines has carried through my youth. They’re both gone. 💔😞 God bless Alfred E. Neuman and Hugh Hefner…
Mad magazine inspired me to draw as well...Mort Drucker was my mentor in the magazine. Reminds me of growing up in NYC in the 80s.
Shucks, MAD magazines was part of my childhood from the 1960s, into the 1970s. The books, and magazines were, oh so funny. I learned about satire reading MAD.
And I also liked Crack mag too!
I love MAD Magazine!
This is such a sweet video. I've been collecting merchandise from the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movie series, and just purchased a copy of the Spider-Man 3 edition of Mad Magazine off of Facebook last night! I was somewhat familiar with Mad Magazine but I learned so much from this video. I can really feel how sentimental it is to you. Thank you for sharing and really great work!
This video made me tear up. Not even Titanic or Hachiko made me feel this sad.
Wonderful video, I'm subscribing right away.
Loved this! Thanks for uploading!
I believe Al Jaffee is the oldest surviving Mad Magazine illustrator left. I still have my first 1970 issue that I bought with newspaper carrier money. I’ll be cremated with it.
So did I around late 1969 until 1973, when I had my route.
Loved your thought ; "I'll be cremated with it."
But then, you'd be reducing to ashes one heirloom that could be passed on.
What if you made limited copies of that 1970 issue, and handed it out to all those who attend the service?
@@A0A4ful I’ll probably have a very lightly attended funeral. Plus, most of the people don’t understand satire. Especially in this woke society we are living in. Thanks for the idea though. It was a good one.
@@rancosteel Ha ha ha !
So true! - I sometimes wonder, if and when, this 'woke society' is complete in its fully evolved form, what will they do for a simple human need of laughter. Since we won't be allowed to laugh at each other anymore.
Regarding the limited pirated copies of the 1970 issue, please don't forget to send copies to the families of all the contributing gang of idiots (living and/or dead) too.
@@A0A4ful It’s only Al Jaffee and Sergio Aragones still left I believe. Everyone else has passed away. Mort Drucker was my favorite hands down. I believe he was the finest character illustrator of all time IMO.
MAD Magazine landed me in detention Hall once or twice while in high school during the 1960s. It influenced my artwork throughout my life! I even was an artist for a time on a short lived underground newspaper!
MAD was brilliant, as were all the EC comics. Unrelated, but National Lampoon was brilliant too. The humor print magazine is a sad part of the past, but a beloved part of entertainment in many of our lives.
I enjoyed your video and your artwork is pretty great too.
Always remembered their NO SACRED COWS policy towards all forms of pop culture. My earliest MAD memory was around 1991 in Reading, Pennsylvania.
Visiting my grandparents out there, my mom and grandma took me to the local Weis Supermarket. What caught my eye as I looked towards the magazine racks? Yup, MAD Magazine. Never got my mom to buy it. Just snuck a quick look inside. Got to look at a parody of THE FRESH PRINCE OF BEL-AIR! Ah, memories...❤
I have been a Mad Magazine devotee for a long, long time... It is so sad to see it go.
Warner communications don’t know what satire is.
I wish I kept up with mad magazine as a kid. I only bought an issue here and there when it caught my eye at a store. Something about comic books and old school zines.
ranger ? dont ask me what type of ranger cause i dont know!!!
I think I got my first issue in '87.. became obsessed, still have copies kickin around.
I really loved MAD growing up in Australia in the early 2000's.
I had a monthly subscription to the USA version and some of the best afternoons of my life were running down to the letterbox at the end of the driveway and finding that months issue had just arrived and sitting on the side of the street reading it on my own.
Mad wasn't just a magazine, it was a friend.
RIP Mort Drucker!
mad magazine i go back with them in 1970
My library has Mad Magazine!!! It’s too bad I can’t buy them there!!!
i used to love getting home from school and checkin the mailbox when i had a subsription
Mad magazine helped all of us young kids to read!!! You will be missed, educationally, culturally and historically !
Nice job! Spy vs Spy was my favorite
My first issue of MAD was in spring 1964 with issue 87... I saw a goofy picture of an upside down kid in striped stockings busting through a trampoline.. and so instead of spending my money on a Jack n Jill Magazine I bought MAD instead... I was surprised that my mother liked it more than I did... I thought to myself.. I finally bonded with the adult world... since we both enjoyed MAD...
over the years I occasionally bought a MAD mag here and there.. but never really collected them..
then with the passing of Bill Gaines. around the fall of 1992.... I thought to myself... these may be collectable someday.. so with issue 314..... I quickly went and searched for all the past issues I missed.. and began a subscription.. so I would not miss any more... I now have issues 1-550 of the first batch and issues 1-20 of the second batch from L.A... also 100's of paperbacks... specials.. and other memorabilia.....pins.. games cards coins.. pins ..t-shirts... etc...
Wow what a super collection. I have about 20 70s issues and specials here now, and about a dozen Cracked issues... I'd love to add a few more but no pan ic.
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I guess it helps being born when I was... I really had a charmed life... I remember as a kid.. seeing the newstands.. carrying the first issues.. of Spider-man.. I can remember the night as if it was yesterday.. in 1963.. when I was at the magazine rack thumbing. the rain was pouring outside.... thru issue 4 where Spiderman fights Sandman for the first time.. debating if I should buy it or not... I didn't since I was more into Disney.. and looney toons comics at the age of 8.. but I thought it was interesting..
as kids.. at 12 years old.. I started getting into the super hero comics.. and many of the first few issues.. of Marvels and D.C.'s were all over.. often us kids would get together and swap out those early issues...
a friend of a friend told me that he knew this kid that was selling his comics.. so for 5.00 I got the first fifty issues of X-men and the Avengers.. or just 5.00..
wish I would have kept those X-men.. I traded them to someone in the 80's for an Atari 5200 and about 20 games..
for a while an older kid in the neighborhood was selling his garaged comics for a nickel... that is where I picked up the first appearance of Thor.. Journey Into Mystery 83...
Just for a nickel..
being born in 1955... exposed me to all sorts of new things.. and becoming aware of Mad magazine.. a few months before I turned 9... was one of them.. I remember spending a quarter on it.. (back then they had no sales tax where I live).... and I got it home.. and my mother got a bigger kick out of it than I did.. she got the humor.. that issue in particular has a big spoof on cigarette ads.. and my mom was a smoker.. I knew I did good when I got a magazine that made my mother laugh...
I periodically bought Mad over the years.. but I did not get serious over Mad until 1992 when I read the William Gaines died.. then I knew.. they might be worth something.. so I started buying up all the many back issues.. many still aren't worth anything..
but the thrill.. is in collecting.. isn't it..?..
I used to get Mad in the 1960s, the little 'tuck shop' just outside the school carried it, the draughtsmanship was superb, the creativity unmatched, it enabled me to keep abreast of trends without having to invest so much time money and effort in actually participating in them. The fold-ins were splendid, spy vs spy always brought a smile in the same way the road runner cartoons did, the re-worded songs were clever and I still remember a couple of the poems from 'If Xxxx wrote Yyyy' series ('Twas the day of the battle, but all through the slaughter, not a creature was moving, we all needed water'. It's a bit of a desert out there these days.
@mikesmith2905
what is a "tuck shop?
if you don't mind me asking...
@@jeffcarlson3269 Old British term for a small shop, either on school premises or immediately outside school bounds where pupils could purchase things like pencils, ink and (most importantly) sweets or 'tuck' hence the expression 'tucking-in' (ie eating).
@@mikesmith2905
oh yeah... Now I understand... when I was a kid.. there used to be those about every two or three blocks or so.. usually on corners.. and many were just little brick buildings.. where one could go in and buy candy at the counter.. or trading cards... smokes..etc... they used to call those "mom and pop stores".. here... since mostly they were ran buy a family or just and elderly couple...
I miss those antiquated shops for their simplicity... sadly when the larger grocery chains moved in.. it forced a lot of those smaller stores to close since they could not compete.. with the bargains the larger stores could offer....
kids of today.. will never know the joys.. of buying penny candies.. or even nickel candy bars.. right off the counter from a bin in front of the cash registers...
or the fun of looking over the comics or magazines of the rack.. and huddling off somewhere in the store flipping thru the pages before deciding whether to buy it or not..
@@jeffcarlson3269 The 'tuck shop' appellation was specifically associated with schools (I believe it originated in the 'public schools', which in the UK are actually very expensive fee-paying schools). The family owned shop was the cornerstone of commerce and of local communities for several thousand years before the current trend for 'corporate socialism' took hold. In the UK the nearest to those you describe would be the small 'newsagents' (selling newspapers and magazines but with sidelines in just about anything you could think of), sadly those that remain are mostly merely 'chain stores' staffed by a minder who is given a 'Manager' badge but no authority. The supermarkets began stocking the newspapers, which were already a less common purchase, killing off any remaining independent newsagents. The kids today are offered the same set of items in the various chain stores (all of whom use similar algorithms) and for anything out of the ordinary they are condemned to 'click and pray' on-line shopping, which has had the knock-on effect of making quality toys very hard to find (there is plenty of 'merchandising' but that is designed to be put up in the attic along with the limited edition pet rock to be sold to a collector at some future date). The corporate socialist model cannot compete on quality (that is an on-going cost, and advertising blitz is a one-off expense) and has little room for niche products such as satirical magazines, so sadly Mad Magazine (and in the UK Punch magazine) are no longer freely available. I haven't seen any new 'superman' style comics out there either. Ideology has a lot to answer for, there again I am old and hence entitled to be grumpy.
Great video. I love Mad magazine.
Good video. I have a decent collection of Mad, a few Cracked, and even Crazy magazines. Mort Drucker, George Woodbridge, Frank Jacobs, Tom Richmond, and Dick DeBartolo were some of my favorites. Old issues can be found on Ebay at reasonable prices.
I was into redrawing content form both Mad and Cracked, but that was around 1978. Angelo Torres and Mort Drucker were my favorite. I stopped getting it around the time Bill Gaines died, and the magazine began to have ads.
I vividly remember their Star Roars Paraody.
Read the lastest Mad Magazine!
I remember MAD cartoon series, but never the magazine.
the 2010 one right
I have a lot of Gameinformer mags and still subscribe to them through GameStop. I first read Mad in middle school!!!!
We were at a Dollar General last night and I saw a MAD compilation magazine of all their Sci Fi movie and tv spoofs over the years and I had to get it. Driving home my wife said I had a permagrin on my face. So many people deify Kerouac or Salinger but I really think Bill Gaines and his Usual Gang of Idiots were my heroes as a kid, but I didn't realize it until I was an adult. I've drawn most of my life too, and like a lot of things you don't realize what you had til it's gone. Goodbye MAD magazine. And RIP Mort Drucker....so sad to hear he passed last year (same month as my parents...2020 truly sucked.) Thanks for this video.
I love reading magazines & especially MAD. I had to stop the casual enjoyment of it because the prices became WAY beyond the impulse buy prices. It hurts
I have that Ghostbusters II issue. You are a lucky man
GREAT VIDEO
The first issue of MAD to fall into my grubby little hands was no. 266, the "Hot TV Issue," back in 1986. It was purchased from a little grocery store store magazine rack (no doubt as Mom rolled her eyes) for a long family drive up to Niagara Falls, during which I wrung the rag for every tiny detail; [sigh] I remember so much about that trip: _The Lighter Side Of...,_ _Spy vs. Spy,_ _Snappy Answers...,_ oh, and some big dumb waterfall.
Thank you ... not sure where I could find old copies in South Afruca
Claptrap is a great book for anyone who loves Mad magazine!!! Desmond Devlin and Tom Richmond made a modern masterpiece of satire!!!
I first got into MAD magazine in the early 1970s when I was about 11 or 12. One of the kids in my class (Anthony Day) used to bring copies in, and also let me borrow a number of the MAD paperback books (I think Anthony must have known someone in America). My favourite artist was always Don Martin, especially for the crazy sound effects. I remember being intrigued and confused by some of the cultural references in the magazine (e.g. 24 hour diners, flashy high winged cars, take away pizza!) which just heightened the sense of divide between the UK and USA at the time. I still have some of the old paperbacks, but this video has only made me want to buy more of them and copies of the magazine!
The choose your own adventure video was Amazing.
my experience with MAD was from the 60s and early 70s, never seen anything from 80s,,interesting, and thanks for reminding me of Cracked
I remember coming home from school early in 1966 and catching my father reading my Mad and listening to my newest Bob Dylan album. He was cooler than he let on in front of Mom. 😊😅
@johnchandler1687
Not MY dad... he hated any of the groups from the 60's.. he was a WWII vet.. so Frank Sinatra was HIS speed.. he wouldn't have been caught DEAD with a MAD in his hands..
but my mom and I would often read them together as I sat on her lap.. I bought my first MAD when I was 8... she loved them.. I still remember how she would laugh at the humor and often times would have to explain it to my small child mind..
@@jeffcarlson3269 My father served on a cruiser in the Pacific. He liked all types of music and was an avid reader of anything. He bought a stereo in 1964 so we could buy records. The good old Zenith Surround Sound.
great video
80's -90's 50's 60's 70's
Wow! The whole thing is extraordinarily interesting.
I had every Mad Magazine from 1960-1970. When I went away to grad school my mother threw them all out. Eccccchhhhhh!
I thought the thumbnail was a scene from Office Space, & I saw it over Thanksgiving Weekend on home video in grade 9
Love it when my pap bought me a mad magazine ,I think it came with stickers or cards, the red head character on the magazine reminded me of a young opi Taylor with exaggerated feature's this is really going back ,saddened me to see an ending it was quite remarkable and a little dark but I loved it ,grandfather as well ,you are right ,digital transferred to end a lot of things you are so right.great seeing these again I think of my pap. Thanks to you. You said clearly internet changed all ,we are on phones ,no more frisbee ,no more magazines ,many more will be no longer . Kids will stream movies and not go to movie theaters.
From the age of about 10 to 14, it was my favorite magazine. It easily won over my earlier passion for comic books. Like you, I tried to emulate the excellent caricatures of Mort Drucker and Jack Davis. I also liked Paul Coker and Don Martin.
i actually went to the bookstore yesterday and an issue of mad magazine was still there.
I occasionally check out the digital MAD issues.
Not the same as curling up on the couch, holding a dog eared print issue in my hands and getting a deja vu giggle now and then...
But we were fortunate to have that satire institution in our lifetimes, and one day, as with all good things, it too must come to an end. Atleast, I have many contemporaries with whom I can share some of those giggles, face to face, or on the phone, and on social media too. Till the end of our days.
MAD started to die when Bill Gaines died, sadly.
Very sad to see Mad go. A cultural icon. Someday.....the world will re-discover physical magazines and newspapers.
I believe that MAD magazine will be revived, and I’m looking forward to the return of MAD!
In 1979 my youngest son (of 7 kids!) was taking care of pets across the street for a teacher while she was on vacation. I went with my son one day and way in back of the upstairs was the teacher’s son’s room. The door has a sign “enter at your own risk” and a picture of Alfred E Newman. Based on that my son associated Mad with the ‘big kids that will beat you up’. Fortunately my daughter, who was in college at the time, explained to my son that wasn’t the case!
Never read Mad, just Cracked.
RetrO_SpecTrum both fairly similar
@Tristan beaumont ...my mom said MAD was "BAD".
no comparison...... MAD was definitely worth more than Cracked... the material of MAD.. took a lot longer to digest... a person really got their money's worth with MAD.... whenever I bought Cracked.. and I was done reading it within 1/2 an hour... I felt I wasted my money... never felt that way with MAD...
@@jeffcarlson3269 Cracked's writing wasn't;t as good. It sort of seemed like it was written by old guys. I loved it still though. Shut ups were great always. Severin's art was great. Sometimes Cracked had better art. Mad;'s writing was more cynical and snide. Cracked was innocent and good natured. I loved them both but Cracked had this positive quality, perhaps it was made for younger readers than mad?
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@@MicahMicahel
perhaps...yes ..I think perhaps that is why.. I found Cracked so easy finish off in a short amount of time... besides less textual content.. the humor was easier to understand many times...probably as you stated... geared for slightly younger readers..
I read a lot of Cracked magazines over the years... and I still have a few..
but in regards to Cracked Shut-ups... which were quick to read thru...
MAD countered with Jaffee's .."Snappy answers to Stupid Questions.." which seemed to offer More to read and digest..
I agree ...... John Severin... was one of the best..
in fact.. I dare say...Cracked would Not have lasted as long as it did... if not for Severin's tireless contributions to that Magazine..
They were starting over, and they were the same jokes. Also, that issue said number 9. It’s also good to know that MAD will live on in our hearts.
i have a subscription to mad magazine and i buy the old ones in comic book stores
New issues are still coming out in comic book stores, and there’s original content in it too
The real last issue was basically what they did @ the end of every year. I know because the DiCaprio issue wasn't the last issue I read in chronological order.
30 years ago as a kid i had a subscription to the Dutch MAD Magazine
but some people nowadays still prefer printed media as i currently am subscribed to 5 magazines
I would like to see a reprint of Don Martin "Bounces Back"
Goodbye MAD magazines. Btw can you do a avengers endgame movie review?
I had a MAD subscription for about 20 years.... from the late 90's to 2019.. when I heard that MAD was done... so I quit with issue... 20 of the re-vamped MAD only to find that new re-releases of old MAD material.. was still being released quarterly.. and so from 2019 to 2023... I had missed roughly about 14 issues..
I used to buy these occasionally as a kid... my First issue.. I saw of MAD was issue 87.. spring of 1964.. as a kid I traded these back and forth.. then I grew out of them... but in 1992 I saw a newspaper article about how William Gaines.. the founder of MAD had died.. and I thought I'd better start collecting these they may be worth something.. I found a local comic shop that had about 200 issues for about a buck a piece. .and over the years.. I found the other ones I needed to complete my collection..
I know most of the material is old.. in the NEW issues.. but getting these new ones saves me from going thru my boxes of MADs and digging them out...
also..
even with the departure of Al Jaffee.. the MAD fold outs.. on the back page of MADs are STILL being done fresh by a New artist.. and so 4 times a year.. there is a new "fold-in".. AND
the covers for each issue are fresh.. and the contents pages//..
granted.. these will Never be considered rare or collectible.. since most of the material is re-vamped.. but there is something to be said.. about having EVERY issue..
with the exception of some of the MAD specials.. I have EVERY magazine issue of MAD.. and all of the New Mad s as well..
when I die.. someone will get ALL 6 boxes worth... and MOST all of my MAD s have Never had the back fold-in completely folded ..so they are in pristine condition as well... and mostly all in bags..
my subscription issues.. STILL have the subscription outer wrap around the complete magazine as well for protection..
I got a monthly subscription to guitar magazine my dude.
I love how the Fold-In was inspired by Playboys fold-out.
Try kids that grew up in the 50s as I did! We loved Mad!
The only comics i every collected.
I remember looking at them but unfortunately my reading skills suck which isn't surprising because I was about 10 at the time but I say the same for the artwork which explains more on what happening without reading words.
Enjoyed this, thanks. Hope you are still drawing regularly. Mad and Cracked were what led me to the magazine section at Kmart and while mom n dad shopped, they knew thats where I'd be.
I wonder if this young Generation has so little sense of humor because nothing like these publications fosters a healthy sense of satire in their imagination. Its all snark and "well, that just happened" lazy humor.
Speaking Of Mad Being Changed To Color And Using Photos And Illustrations. Mad Also Accepting Advertisings In 2001 On Issue #403
"OUFFZZSSSS " THE SOUND OF SEARING HOT IRON ☝
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I had 250 Mad Magazines at one point. Not sure where they all went. I was obsessed with them through the 90s and early 00s. But the magazine went downhill as soon as they went colour and I think a lot of the satire became a bit obvious and safe. I think there is still a place in the world for Mad Magazine but it needs a reimagining.
I have 435 out of 550 (before the reboot). Finding the rest of them may take me my whole life but it'll be worth it.
@@KHayes666
I was fortunate... I started buying them up in 1992 when I read William Gaines had died...they were on issue 314 or so at that time.. I immediately started buying them off of the newstands.. and then about 3 years later had a subscription for about 20 years.. within the first 2 years or so I was able to get every issue except the comics.. fairly cheaply... and then in 2020.. I bought the comic issues.. off E-bay.. AND the compete PANIC collection..
so Now I am fortunate enough to have EVERY issue.. of MAD.. andmost are in mint condition.. the fold-ins untouched..
the first month after Gaines died I stopped into a local comic shop here.. and they had 2 full boxes of MAD's in numerical order ..every issue.. from 88 - 250 or so... for Only 1 dollar each.. and ALL were sealed in protective bags with backings..so naturally I bought both boxes. .that was a big boost in helping me to get the complete set...of MAD's ... cuz when Gaines died I only had like 20 issues or less left from my childhood.. and they were like hit and miss.. issue wise..
back then MAD's I guess were Not that popular... the comic shop seemed glad to be getting rid of them..
I was a fan in the 60's.
"Madder than MAD's Alfred E. Neuman."--Beastie Boys
I just learned about MAD, now I want it back
Rip Mort Drucker im going to miss Mad 😔
Acsalvador _01 I feel ya
@@CINEMATTOX i related to the vid a lot i first saw mad through the cartoon network show and recognized the logo on a magazine in a supermarket, ive got a collection now.
He was so great at drawing women and capturing body postures. Amazing stuff.
All Jaffee died a year ago. He was drawing a nd making the folding until the end. he was about 99 years old I think.
Crazy that they showed a scene from the minions 2 the rise of gru two years before it was released
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Shame the magazine not producing much new content anymore. We even had a Norwegian MAD magazine in the eighties. It folded after the Norwgian talent broke out and formed their own magazine Pyton which was a cruder version of MAD really.
I am similar to you but i didnt trace cartoons from the TV i record cartoons on VHS and put pause for the best scene in the episode and i draw them on big papers and color them with markers like Transformers and G.I. Joe i still have all these drawings from the early 90's until now