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lllllllllllllllllll posted:they were cool when i started reading them but didnt change and eventually didnt appeal to me anymore there we go, much better
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I grew up as a big fan of Mad, I had a bunch of the paperback compilations of Spy vs Spy, Snappy Answers, Don Martin, and more. I would pick up the magazine when I could. Between the ages of 9-14 I thought Mad was about as edgy and funny as anything could be but eventually I grew out of it, I think most people do. I'm sad to see it go but also I'm pretty surprised it's still around.
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Not surprising considering it was mostly a thing that parents bought for their kids on road trip stops to gas stations but it still produces some gold Simpsons material https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG_f0_jfHRU
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Synthbuttrange posted:Honestly though when was the last time anyone read a mad magazine? It was probably the 80s for me OH GOD IM OLD for some inexplicable reason my dad used them as stocking stuffers for Christmas for ages. I was always good for exactly one MAD Magazine and one Rolling Stone a year.
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SilvergunSuperman posted:This is what flamethrowers are meant for. turn your monitor on
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Looks like the original photoshop thread idea started on Mad.
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Milo and POTUS posted:It's their go to insult. They said it about Obama too It's bipartisan. 
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MAD gave Antonio Prohías a platform and for that reason it loving owned. I'm sad to see it go but surprised that it lasted this long.
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I remember once years ago seeing a 60 Minutes or something about MAD. Apparently they discovered the magazine had one single subscriber in Haiti who suddenly cancelled his subscription. So they sent some of the staff to Haiti just to track the kid down at his house to beg him him into subscribe again.
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As a 90s kid, both Mad and Nick at Nite gave me a window into history. If you had any of Mads super special issues, they tended to be full of reprinted older material. So, I'd get a lil history lesson of life and culture in the 70s. If you're looking for old Mad on the cheap their old paperbacks are perfect.     My favorite special issue. All about death. Still has the bonus stuff. It was neat reading about Archie Bunkers death, then finally getting to watch All in the Family on Nick at Nite many years later.    Reprinted early Mads. Love this cowboy joke, kept thinking about it while playing RDR2.    Mad fold in, courtesy of my dumb hands.  My favorite issue. Bought around 4th of July when I was in middle school.  Last, here's Crackeds first issue when they were trying to be hip with the teens.
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I always liked Dave Berg. Also 90s Mad still had a lot of good material, Monroe and all that hosed up Tom Bunk stuff really stuck with me. The back catalogue stuff (60s/70s/80s annuals, the full colour reprints of 50s issues they did ~20 years ago, some of the paperbacks like Three Ring Mad) did a lot to shape my sense of humour and general knowledge and I honestly have no idea if it holds up but I'll always remember it fondly. Rip I guess. Also Al Jaffee is a machine
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My mom let me read MAD starting when I was like 7-8 which seemed truly transgressive, especially in '80s rural Nebraska. I got in trouble for bringing an issue with me on the bus to school and a dumbass kid told his mom that we were looking at naked women lol. My mom just told me not to bring it outside the house anymore. Anyway yeah it started to suck in the '90s as the original writers died or got stale and they couldn't find replacement talent. I'm assuming at this point it was existing solely as a money laundering scheme.
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Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6le600NWk0
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:lol jfc Real edgy stuff I thought gbs had matured
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to add to my dismissive post earlier, i loved mad as a kid. i first read the big hardcover volumes from when it was a comic book in '52 and then read a shitload of old paperback collections. i held antonio prohias in high regard and read that big spy vs spy collection/retrospective over and over. but since then most of the people whose work i enjoyed have passed, and i can't be bothered to care. i checked comixology and those first, comic book issues are p cheap, but i don't see anything between that and the aughts. it's a bummer.
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LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:to add to my dismissive post earlier, i loved mad as a kid. i first read the big hardcover volumes from when it was a comic book in '52 and then read a shitload of old paperback collections. i held antonio prohias in high regard and read that big spy vs spy collection/retrospective over and over. but since then most of the people whose work i enjoyed have passed, and i can't be bothered to care.
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Much like this dead gay forum, Mad still produced some quality stuff in its old age   
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i also read a lot of life in hell in my preteens but that's a whole other Thing for me
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LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:i also read a lot of life in hell in my preteens but that's a whole other Thing for me
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FactsAreUseless posted:I think Akbar and Jeff were the healthiest example of a gay relationship I had in the late 90s. Weird time for America. I agree on both counts.
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FactsAreUseless posted:I think Akbar and Jeff were the healthiest example of a gay relationship I had in the late 90s. Weird time for America. IIRC, they were in The Village Voice for years, yes? I can't recall reading them elsewhere.
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FactsAreUseless posted:I think Akbar and Jeff were the healthiest example of a gay relationship I had in the late 90s. Weird time for America. absolutely.  i had one of the books as a kid. also liked how "life in hell" explored child abuse through bongo's relationship with binky nishi koichi fucked around with this message at 02:32 on Jul 5, 2019 |
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gently caress! I just saw there was a new version of Mad and subscribed, like, 3 weeks ago! I have about 30 of the paperback books, and most issues from the 70's and 80's. That magazine meant a ton to me growing up. Jack Davis was always my favorite artist. Al Jaffee and Sergio Aragones were always great too.
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:absolutely. hell yeah. sometimes my mom would take me to her office and when no one saw i would photocopy akbar and jeff comics to make my own, curated collections. sorry for the toner costs mom.
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LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:hell yeah. sometimes my mom would take me to her office and when no one saw i would photocopy akbar and jeff comics to make my own, curated collections. sorry for the toner costs mom. that rules
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Youth Decay posted:Much like this dead gay forum, Mad still produced some quality stuff in its old age wow.
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Youth Decay posted:Much like this dead gay forum, Mad still produced some quality stuff in its old age
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Atomic Robo-Kid posted:If you're looking for old Mad on the cheap their old paperbacks are perfect. They released a DVD-ROM with scans of every issue: https://www.amazon.com/Absolutely-MAD-Magazine-50-Years/dp/B000HKMQ64 Apparently they're all circa-2004 PDF scans, so probably not the highest quality
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