Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for June 18, 2023

What me worry?

Last time I even saw an issue was probably 1975.

Loved Mad Magazine in my younger days.

As an Australian, I learned everything I needed to know about the U.S.A. back in the 60’s and 70’s from MAD magazine. My favorite ever cover was Nixon and Agnew clothed as and posing as Redford and Newman from the movie “The Sting” and proudly announcing that they have pulled off “The Big Con” on America. Anyone else remember that cover?

In the first panel, who’s that peeking around the doorway?

Now you did it! He is just going to fold-in on himself.

I picked up a copy after several years and realised I didn’t know ANY of the stuff they were satirising.

I always figured that those who don’t “get” satire, weren’t allowed to read Mad as kids.

Don Martin and Spy vs Spy never failed to make me laugh!

A story on the end of Mad

https://www.openculture.com/2019/07/the-end-of-an-era-mad-magazine-will-publish-its-last-issue-with-original-content-this-fall.html

I can’t read the name on the potted plant. Should say “Arthur.”

The last one I remember buying had a Star Trek parody. I still have it (somewhere.)

love the cameos

Loved Mad magazine. Never found it again, but my favorite piece (they were all varying degrees of clever and funny) was this one:

The conservative utopia (best attempt to remember, about 6 panels with a comment/ photo), where there’s no unions or strikes, no hippies or longhairs, rule of law, etc. At the bottom, Believe it or not, such a paradise exists…(Flip the page)Photo, soldiers on Red Square “It’s a nightmare called the USSR!”

In later years, Mad Magazine became a shell of its former self. They seemed to have more ads than content.

And you feel twenty years older.

I’m trying to figure out how to fold the comic so that the blonde hair in the first doorway somehow relates to the Alfred E. Neuman in the second panel. It’s driving me MAD.

The Star Blechh satire

https://imgur.io/gallery/QNfDT

Alfie is a nice touch. I miss the the old Mad of the late 50’s and 60’s.

When was the last time I bought one? Are you trying to make this MY fault?

That’d nothing to worry about

When I was in elementary school, I had this idea that MAD was somehow vaguely illegal, and I might get punished for reading one. I’m not sure why I thought that, since my parents never said anything about it and I learned later that my dad actually enjoyed it. The big revelation for me was when one of my teachers, probably in 6th Grade, was talking about the concept of satire and referred us to MAD as a good example of it. I was really surprised, and this coming from a teacher no less! The first one I bought would have been in the summer of 1966, in order to read MAD’s version of “Lost in Space”, i.e., “Loused Up in Space” (although my mother absolutely detested the term “loused up”, which is probably why my father liked to use it). Also, don’t forget “Voyage to See What’s on the Bottom”.

Mad Magazine saved a lot of people from going to the movies…