![]() ![]() Incidentally, as of this writing, Al Jaffee is still alive and celebrated his 98th birthday in March!Īnother great contributor to Mad Magazine was artist Don Martin. It’s hard to explain, but this picture may help… There was some scenario or question posed and you folded the back cover in and the answer and another drawing appeared from the original. There was usually some crazy drawing on the back cover. Who doesn’t respond with a sarcastic answer when someone asks you a ridiculous question!!? I always loved this feature, and Al wrote many books based on this feature.Īl Jaffee also was responsible for this feature. The first was Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions. I always loved reading them and found the comedic spins on character names creative and funny.Īs silly as these comics were, I always wondered which Spy would wind up beating the other one! I don’t recall rooting for one Spy in particular.Īl Jaffee, was responsible for two of my favorite Mad Magazine features. So many great satires and parodies were presented in Mad. ![]() M*A*S*H became M*U*S*H, Different Strokes was Different Jokes, The Sound of Music was The Sound of Money, and the Godfather was The OddFather. ![]() I will admit that it has been some time since I bought a copy of Mad, but I can recall some of the things I looked forward to each month: This week it was announced that Mad would be coming off the newsstands after an amazing 67 year run! What a shame this is! I remember picking it up and laughing out loud at so many things! As a kid, I always laughed at the humor and satirical content and often brought it to school and laughed with friends during lunch. If I wasn’t buying toys or music, I was in the book store buying my favorite magazine – Mad. With the money I earned, I would run up to the record store and buy records or tapes or maybe I’d go to Circus World and buy some new toy I wanted. It was nice because I had an income (not much, but a lot for a kid). ![]()
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