1. Mad magazine was primarily read by kids between 9 and 14 years old. It was also the most important satirical magazine in American history. Let me explain.
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7. Patti Smith: “After Mad, drugs were nothing.” Without Mad, it's hard to imagine underground comics, National Lampoon, Saturday Night Live, the Simpons, the Onion, Stephen Colbert. Mad was the seedbed of an entire genre of media-focused satirical comedy.
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8. More thoughts on Mad's legacy here: https://www.thenation.com/article/mad-magazine-media-politics/ …
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"Death Which one is Which?" !!!
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When I interviewed Bill Gaines c. 1988, he said the move to drop advertising in 1957 was the most liberating thing he'd ever done. His model was the 1940s daily newspaper PM.
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I may be wrong, but weren’t most of the contributors to Mad magazine in the late 50s and 1960s also employed by ad agencies? Isn’t “mad” also short for Madison Avenue? (great observations btw)
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Its address was (really!) 666 Madison Avenue.
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