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Comic-Con is back and as big as ever on July 24, with a preview night the night before. While many of the best events take ...
Critic Milo Miles reviews The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics. It's Dennis Kitchen and Paul Buhle's illustrated biography of influential artist and writer Harvey Kurtzman, the ...
September, 1989 – Original Mad publisher Bill Gaines had promised the staff to take them to a restaurant of their choice anywhere in the world if they sold a certain percentage of the print run ...
All-in-all, Mad Dogs is a decent series that struggles a bit after a great start, and I can’t believe I made it all the way to the end of this without spoiling the end of the first episode.
Last week the magazine’s current owners, DC comics, announced that Mad, which started as a comic book in 1952 and became a magazine in 1955, is on the verge of suspending publication.
Cirque du Soleil is developing its first new show on the Strip in more than two years. But the company’s latest original foray borrows generously from a familiar theme and a famous city. “Mad ...
Conan O'Brien played the guitar-wielding Doof Warrior as Andy Richter, dressed as Immortan Joe, led the 'Conan' crew to Comic-Con, 'Mad Max'-style.
It’s a little known fact—so little-known as to be essentially untrue—that the popular AMC series Mad Men is based on an obscure comic strip from the early 1960s. The strip, Those Madison ...
When: 7 and 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday Where: Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague Ave. Once a standup comic commits to TV and film projects, it’s difficult to find a way back to the stage ...
Mad magazine, the satirical publication known for parodies and its gap-toothed mascot Alfred E. Neuman, will come off newsstands and largely end publishing new content.
While the FX show Archer riffs on James Bond and action-spy stories with a workplace twist, it owes its iconic look to surprising origins. Taking inspiration from Mad Men, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko ...