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After college, at my first magazine job, the art director had good enough taste to hire Mad utility player Paul Peter Porges to illustrate a humorous take on country club tennis.
The cover of the first Mad magazine, which appeared in 1952 as an experimental comic book. Jerry Mosey/Associated Press ...
This is the cover of the first Mad magazine when it appeared in 1952 as an experimental comic book, pictured in New York, Jan. 5, 1972. After that it’s expected to become a reprint title only ...
They're among the cartoonists who put MAD on the map in the 1950s. Over the next six decades, they blended celebrity caricature, pop-culture parody and political satire in a way that would ...
Mad Magazine is effectively ending its 67-year-long run. Maria Reidelbach, author of Completely MAD: A History of the Comic Book and Magazine joins NPR's Audie Cornish to discuss its legacy.
Mad Magazine's ageless wise guy delighted millions of readers with the sneaky fun of the Fold-In and the snark of "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions." Al Jaffee had retired at age 99.
Mad magazine had its beginnings in 1947, when publisher Maxwell Gaines’ death in an upstate New York boating accident left his Educational Comics company to his 25-year-old son, William Gaines.
Alan Bernstein of Pleasant Ridge will screen his documentary "When We Went Mad!" on Thursday night at the Redford Theatre in Detroit.
Al Jaffee, the cartoonist who gave Mad magazine its iconic back page by creating the publication’s fold-in feature, died on Monday. He was 102. According to the New York Times, Jaffee died of ...
A history of satire, lampoons and lawsuits: Rockwell Museum celebrates Mad magazine’s 72nd year with first major retrospective ...
Jaffee first contributed to Mad in the mid-1950s. He left when Kurtzmann quit the magazine, but came back in 1964.
Former Mad magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee died Monday at the age of 102. Jaffee, one of the magazine’s longest contributors, had delighted millions of kids.