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Post by teleadm on Mar 16, 2018 18:24:44 GMT
Yes snsurone ,Sergio Aragones or Sergio Aragonés, wasn't he the one who made those little things in the corners of nearly all pages?  |
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Post by snsurone on Mar 31, 2018 23:35:36 GMT
Yes snsurone ,Sergio Aragones or Sergio Aragonés, wasn't he the one who made those little things in the corners of nearly all pages? Yes, he was ("Drawn Out Dramas by Arogenes"), and they were some of the funniest parts of the magazine. |
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Post by Lebowskidoo 💀🎃👻 on Apr 1, 2018 11:53:39 GMT
Alfred E. Streisand!  |
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Post by snsurone on May 10, 2018 22:20:08 GMT
Just as good (if not better) that MAD's movie/TV spoofs, are the cartoons critical of cigarette ads.
While they were all great, I think my favorite was the put-down of the Benson & Hedges ads depicting historical figures commenting on the product.
MAD's inside cover shows a man, clearly recognizable as actor Allen Melvin, dressed and made up as Adolph Hitler.
His voice balloon said something like: cigarettes have killed more people than he ever did.
There was also one showing four headstones with four speech balloons saying,
"Winsom (Winston) tasted good like a cigarette should've.
"You mean AS a cigarette should've!"
"What did you want--good grammar or good taste?"
"I wanted to live a lot longer than this!"
I hope there are posters who can remember those cigarette ads before they were banned in 1971, and as such, could appreciate MAD's dark humor.
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2018 22:58:26 GMT
I remember. In fact I think there was a parody of Marlboro cigarettes called Marble Row with a picture of gravestones in a cemetery. I remember the publisher of Mad, William M. Gaines on To Tell the Truth. He insisted there was no moral message intended in any of it and that Mad was "just trash". Good publicity but, we know better.
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Post by snsurone on May 10, 2018 23:48:28 GMT
I remember. In fact I think there was a parody of Marlboro cigarettes called Marble Row with a picture of gravestones in a cemetery. I remember the publisher of Mad, William M. Gaines on To Tell the Truth. He insisted there was no moral message intended in any of it and that Mad was "just trash". Good publicity but, we know better. The Marlboro spoof that I remember depicted the grave of the cowboy known as the "Marlboro Man", while his hat and gun belt hung from the branch of a tree and his saddled horse grazed nearby. Damn it, though--I can't remember what the caption said! I believe it was one of MAD's first cariactures of cigarette ads. Another was for "Sail 'Em", showing a couple in a beautiful, Edenic setting where the man floats packs of cigarettes down a stream. The last one that I can recall was of "Joe Camel" reacting to his medical diagnosis of fatal lung cancer brought about by smoking. |
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Post by snsurone on Jul 22, 2019 21:13:49 GMT
On a sad note:
MAD Magazine will be ceasing publication at the end of this year.
RIP, Alfie.
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Post by amyghost on Jul 22, 2019 21:30:46 GMT
Probably the ultimate MAD political spoof. So classic it was even stolen by no less than The Nation: 
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Post by mikef6 on Jul 22, 2019 22:26:27 GMT
The January 1962 issue had a spoof of “The Guns of Navarone” called The Guns Of Minestrone.” The Gregory Peck character says, “Now that we have escaped from the Nazis, what war movie cliché can we work next? Oh, I have it. Is there a young kid from Brooklyn who thinks he is too young to die? No, I guess not. Hmmm. Let me see. I’VE GOT IT! One of the members of this group is a TRATIOR! Yes, that’s a good old standby. One of us has been sabotaging this mission by passing our secrets back to the Nazis. Which one of us is the traitor? Let’s have some dramatic close-ups of all the suspects.” Then they show the dramatic close-ups which, I recall, sent me flopping back on my bed laughing uncontrollably for several minutes. When a friend came over a little later, I showed it to him and he folded up helplessly laughing. Two of my other favorite spoofs were of TV shows, also of the ‘60s: Star Bleech and Mission: Ridiculous.  |
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Post by cynthiagreen on Jul 23, 2019 0:09:17 GMT
I used to buy the Mad Magazines from the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s, back then American magazines was rather cheap, not like today when they cost a half fortune. There was a Swedish version too, but they mixed it up with their own material, spoofing Swedish Television serials et al. I think most of those magazines were destroyed in a flooding we had in our cellars a couple of years ago. I remember this one:  I think the spoof was called THE TOWERING FERMENT and had musical interludes ( "On Fire on Fire the building is on fire" to the tune of THEY CALL THE WIND MARIA..... when the Jennifer Jones character bought the farm the rest of the cast were green withy envy it said  . I never read THE POOPSEDOWN ADVENTURE but I hear it was good...
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Post by snsurone on Apr 12, 2020 20:04:51 GMT
Sadly, the great artist Mort Drucker recently passed away at age 91.
May he rest in peace along with the rest of "the usual gang of idiots" from MAD.
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Post by Sulla on Apr 13, 2020 0:20:15 GMT
Yes, "the usual gang of idiots."  R.I.P. Mort.
I grew up reading MAD in the 1960s. Sometimes I would read the parody of a film that I was too young to see at the theater. That's how I knew what the film was about, sort of. Years later I would watch the film and get a delayed laugh out of it. My memory is a bit hazy, but I recall my favorite title was 201 Minutes of a Space Idiocy.
I also had the paperback book, MAD's Snappy Answers To Stupid Questions which I found entertaining and even useful.
One day I heard my mom giggling in another room. I went in there to look and she was reading one of my copies of MAD. She said it was funny, but my dad didn't agree. He was like the serious guy in a Marx Brothers movie.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 13, 2020 2:22:43 GMT
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Post by snsurone on May 12, 2020 15:05:23 GMT
The MAD spoof of LAW & ORDER (called "Law & Disorder) was eerily prophetic in its first panel. In it, the MAD Zepplin bumped into one of the Twin Towers, causing it to tip over, which would have resulted in a domino effect, with that one tower knocking over the other. Makes one wonder bin Laden read MAD!  |
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. I never read THE POOPSEDOWN ADVENTURE but I hear it was good...
