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RIP Mad Magazine - King Bob - 07-08-2019
I think we may have been the last generation that read it, and it's been slowly dying since, but now it's official: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/05/business/media/mad-magazine-publication-demise.html
I particularly loved Don Martin's cartoons, and Spy vs. Spy, and the little Aragones bits in the margin.
RE: RIP Mad Magazine - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 07-08-2019
What, me worry?
RIP Alfred E. Neuman
RE: RIP Mad Magazine - Greg - 07-08-2019
I met Arognes at a Star Trek Convention and got his autograph. I loved it as a kid. But since no one has read it since then I'm not surprised is gone.
RE: RIP Mad Magazine - Drunk Monk - 07-08-2019
Another one bites the dust. As a print publisher, I’m feeling like the last dodo bird.
I too met Aragones at some con and got something signed by him. I don’t know what it was or where it is now but I really enjoyed his work. I loved the fold-outs too.
There’s this great story about how in the early years, they had a line subscriber in the Bahamas or Puerto Rico or somewhere, and when he cancelled his sub, the whole staff flew down, knocked on his door and convinced him to re-subscribe.
I also really admire how they didn’t take advertisers for so long. It was an amazing mag and it taught me a lot about subversive thinking.