One thing I'm going to miss is Mad
Magazine. Perhaps you've heard, While Mad will officially continue publication,
they won't be publishing anything new except once or twice a year on holidays
and special occasions, like Life Magazine and a few others.
One of my
favorites is Mad's Chinese Menu: chinese
menu parody | I like to make copies of this menu and when I go into shops
that have other merchant's pamphlets, I add one of these.
As a stamp collector, I also loved
their stamp collecting parody book, Mad's Talking Stamps. Check out these out
takes: Mad's
Talking Stamps | Stamp Bears. I would love to make my own version of that
book!
Unfortunately, I just knew it had
to die when it was adopted by DC Comics, the same company that makes Batman & Superman
and started to accept ads. How could it possibly continue to parody corporate
America when it was accepting ads from them? It certainly wouldn't, quite
literally, give us the middle finger (again), any more than Archie Bunker, in
that reproduction of that All In The Family episode, would say the word,
nigger, out loud, as Archie originally did.
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