https://pitchfork.com/news/mad-magazine-effectively-shuts-down/
Every day I feel like a little part of my childhood dies. Today it was MAD magazine.
For those of you who didn’t have the absolute blessing of reading MAD as a kid, first sneaking old issues like they were a copy of Playboy, then eventually laughing out loud at it with your parents, MAD pretty much invented the art of parody as we know it today.
When it came to MAD, not a single thing was sacred. It was adult humor, but lightheartedly so, blasting every politician, slamming every new movie, ridiculing every new trend. When I think back to the source of whatever sense of humor I may have, most of it can be traced back directly to MAD.
Unfortunately, they are going out of business. They never had a single ad in an issue- they were completely subscription-based, and in the age of the blessing and curse that we call the Internet, it simply didn’t have enough subscribers anymore.
This is a sad moment in comedy’s history. Rest In Peace, MAD and the Usual Gang of Idiots. You brought mirth to the masses.
O7
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Nooooooiooo