Monday, January 10th, 2005
Mad Magazine rises from grave, kicks ass
by Warren
I’m pretty sure I’m of the last generation to enjoy Mad magazine as a satiric jab at the powers-that-be. I’m also probably from the last group of teenage, hormone crazed miscreants that had to forage around for a copy of Playboy magazine (on paper!) in the wilds of the neighborhood, but that’s a discussion for another time. Anyway, I had pretty much given up on Mad for dead; most of their artists were dying or exceedingly old, they’d started running ads, and founder William Gaines died. So I was very pleasantly surprised to see Mad is once again kicking ass and taking names, like with this Abu Ghraib inspired cover featuring perennial poster boy Alfred E. Neuman.