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Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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Originally Posted by Thx-1138
Yes, MAD magazine was my introduction to politics, I still like the ones from the 60s for the nostalgia.
Each artist had their own unique style, from the outrageous humor of Don Martin and Al Jaffee to the more reality-based Mort Drucker and Dave Berg, it was like several comics in one.
I can't really say I will miss it though, my interest waned in the 80s, the old crew was being replaced and it just wasn't as good.
I bet I had 100 of the magazines and maybe 40 of the paperback books from the 60s and 70s.
You can still find old school used ones for a reasonable price, I got a couple "100 page supers specials" for $5 each at a comic book store here in my town.
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I haven’t seen a comic book store since the 1960s either. Ours was a tiny store called Bob’s Comics and kids would stop by every afternoon after school.
Perhaps Mad Mag was always a far lefty satire mag and I didn't notice. To me it is now just another medium that destroyed itself with the decision to bash / insult only half the population (a business model of Late Night Shows, cable news, large news papers, most magazines, etc). Loved Mad Mag back in the 70s, picked up a copy about a year ago and quickly put it back on the shelf, there was no equal satire of both the left and the right.
Yes, and the price going up to $1.50 and beyond is no longer "cheap."
Of all the great artists I believe Mort Drucker was my favorite, hard to decide, but he was so great with those caricatures from the movies, many of which I saw when they were released, sometimes his drawings looked more like the actor than the actor themselves.
It certainly lost it's edge in the 80s, I used to look at the ones from the 90s and 2000s in the library on occasion and was only marginally amused.
I used to also like the ones from the 1950s, Will Elder:
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I owe my sense of humor, and early awareness of political events, to this magazine. The 2010s has not been kind to comedy, or print media, so it's not terribly surprising.
Perhaps Mad Mag was always a far lefty satire mag and I didn't notice. To me it is now just another medium that destroyed itself with the decision to bash / insult only half the population (a business model of Late Night Shows, cable news, large news papers, most magazines, etc). Loved Mad Mag back in the 70s, picked up a copy about a year ago and quickly put it back on the shelf, there was no equal satire of both the left and the right.
LOL. Its target audience was pre teen boys, around 10-12 yrs old, you do realize this, right?
LOL. Its target audience was pre teen boys, around 10-12 yrs old, you do realize this, right?
I believe the target audience was teenagers and young adults, not 10 - 12 year olds.
It would be silly to market any publication to such a small age group. No matter how popular it could become it wouldn't be successful with just a three year age group.
As I recall years ago the publisher was asked what the target audience for Mad was, and he said he didn't know and didn't want to know. He refused to even do any surveys to find out. Because he said, if they find out the their primary demographic is 13 year old boys, he didn't want the writers to start writing for 13 year old boys and lose everybody else. Which I think he was probably telling the truth. At least back in the day, Mad had enough content to entertain many adults, IMHO.
I think I still have most of my collection in a box of old magazines someplace. But I don't think I have even looked at them in the last 20 or 25 years.
Each artist had their own unique style, from the outrageous humor of Don Martin and Al Jaffee to the more reality-based Mort Drucker and Dave Berg, it was like several comics in one.
This is a rare photo of the very private late, great cartoonist Don Martin.
I believe the target audience was teenagers and young adults, not 10 - 12 year olds.
It would be silly to market any publication to such a small age group. No matter how popular it could become it wouldn't be successful with just a three year age group.
As I recall years ago the publisher was asked what the target audience for Mad was, and he said he didn't know and didn't want to know. He refused to even do any surveys to find out. Because he said, if they find out the their primary demographic is 13 year old boys, he didn't want the writers to start writing for 13 year old boys and lose everybody else. Which I think he was probably telling the truth. At least back in the day, Mad had enough content to entertain many adults, IMHO.
I was a girl and I started reading it in about 5th grade. I understood the satire perfectly.
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