Running Press Book Publishers released a 1,200 page, 15 pound tome called The Completely MAD Don Martin, reprinting all the work Don Martin did for Mad Magazine, back when in the days Mad was a force to be reckoned with. That means it upset our parents. That function must necessarily pass from one venue to…
Pop culture in the 60s was made up of a lot of familiar faces, but few were as instantly recognizable or seen by so many as Alfred E. Neuman. Former Mad Magazine editor Al Feldstein reveals the secret origin of the "What Me Worry" guy. Plus… we lay out some scoops on the new Tin…
There probably hasn’t been a generation since the late 1950s that, in some way, hasn’t been touched by Mad Magazine. Born out of the Comics Code ravaged EC Comics, it went from four color comic to traditional magazine and broke circulation records that have yet to be topped. Today The Big ComicMix Broadcast begins our…
Mad Magazine goes for the easy jokes with their “Rejected Star Wars Stamps.” The UK’s own Guardian newspaper wonders why science fiction is more popular now on TV than it used to be, and blames 9/11. Others have already pointed out that the Guardian seems to have forgotten the mid-90s surge of SF and Fantasy…
A few weeks back I was waxing enthusiastic about Sony Home Entertainment’Âs line of Columbia Classics CollectorÂs Editions, especially The Guns of Navarone two-disc set. Well, it turns out that 20th Century Fox wasnÂt going to take that lying down, so they started peppering me with flicks young and old for the old ultra-violence (yes,…
According to our friends at Publisher’s Weekly, this November Marvel is cancelling Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man and Sensational Spider-Man. They’re replacing both titles with… Amazing Spider-Man. Yep, Amazing will be coming out three times a month. This one-ups the original Captain Marvel’s twice-a-month release schedule, back in the 40s. But it does beg the question of…
Last night Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim premiered Star Wars: Robot Chicken. The half-hour edition of the popular stop motion cartoon show was entirely devoted to Star Wars gags. What separates this from countless issues of Mad Magazine was the involvement of George Lucas himself. Lucas provides a sense of legitimacy and an acknowledgement that he…
Since you couldn’t watch a new episode of Doctor Who this past Saturday, maybe you were at the Eagle Awards, as part of the Bristol International Comic Expo. Established in 1976 by Mike Conroy, the Eagles are the comics industry’s longest established awards. Acknowledged as the pre-eminent international prizes, they have been featured on the…
The MAD War on Bush will be released by DC Comics in June. The trade paperback reprints many of Mad Magazine’s recent features tweaking our president, all under an original and reverential introduction by Jimmy Kimmel. This is a rush release. Perhaps our friends at DC know something about Bush’s future that they’re not sharing…
