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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.