A MAD-Gone World

"MAD" Magazine is one of the funniest and one of the most successful humor magazines ever. It has been around in newstands, bookstores, convenient stores, and grocery stores all over for many generations now, and it has been a very big seller at each of those places. Millions of people have been subscribing to "MAD" as well, only to make their sales a lot higher and make this an even more successful magazine. There are even a lot of libraries that have "MAD" on their magazine racks, to where people are frequently checking it out there as well. It might seem that "MAD" is everywhere that they keep varieties of magazines, and it is quite popular and quite successful everywhere it is.

This magazine has been so successful, it has been inspiring books based on the magazine that have normally sold quite well. It also inspired a board game back in the 1970s and early 1980s, which did quite well back when it came out. It eventually inspired a hit TV series called "MAD TV" that has been on the air successfully for about five or six years now, and it is still currently on the air to this very day. It now has its own website that has many people logging in every day. That's not to mention the big CD-ROM kit with all "MAD" issues that have been out since the magazine has been in publication(which is a lot). So, "MAD" Magazine has also inspired plenty of other successful things based on it over the years to go along with its huge success.

"MAD" Magazine has always had Alfred E. Neuman on their covers. He is always doing different crazy things and he's always in different crazy positions with that same big grin on his face displaying that one big gap he has in his teeth. His crazy positions and the different crazy things he does are always worth a laugh, but that same big grin displaying the same big gap in his teeth has always been the unique thing about him.

The regular issues always have a quote from Alfred E. Neuman on top of their "Table Of Contents" pages. They are always changing known philosophical quotes around a little in humorous ways that are always quite clever.

"MAD" has always had their famous and popular "Spy Vs. Spy" cartoons. The original artist passed on a couple of years ago, but the cartoon lives on with different artists displaying the same clever humor with the same kind of drawings that the original artist pleased "MAD" readers for generations.

"MAD" also used to have the late great cartoonist Don Martin drawing short and silly, but unique and hilarious cartoons for them for many years before he moved to "Cracked" Magazine. He died just this past year. They still occasionally print old classic cartoons of his in their magazine, though.

A replacement for Don Martin was Duck Edwing who can also draw some short but hilarious cartoons.

Dave Berg has been drawing his "The Lighter Side Of..." cartoons for many years as well to make this another great "MAD" classic. He always takes "real-life" situations to view them in a realistic but humorous way. A lot of times, the funny part to these cartoons has been because that is how people in the situations displayed really feel a lot of the time, as well as what ends happening in them being something that really could happen.

Al Jaffee has done a lot of classics with this magazine as well. His two most famous works are his "Snappy Answers To Stupid Questions" and his "Mad Fold-Ins". His "Snappy Answers..." display a lot of stupid but commonly asked questions with some of the smartest and snappiest answers you might feel like saying at some idiot who just might ask you those questions. His "Mad Fold-Ins" always had a question to where you had to fold the page in as directed to see the funny surprise answer. He has done a lot other things as well, including helping with his people's ideas to perfect them. He has really been one of "MAD"'s most active cartoonists.

Sergio Aragones is another classic cartoonist with "MAD". He has done things like "A Mad Look At..." and those little drawn-out dramas at the sides, tops, and bottoms of pages all over each issue. He normally takes real-life situations and events, then looks at them in a satirical and very clever way.

Paul Peter Porges is another classic cartoonist with "MAD" who has a style real similar to Sergio Aragones. He has not done work with every issue, but he still has done a lot of classic work that was very clever and hilarious, which made millions of readers laugh.

There are also satires on movies in each issue of "MAD". They also do satires on TV shows. No matter what your favorite movie or TV show is, you can almost bet that "MAD" has all ready parodized it in a total different perspective from the way you see it. Then again, if there is any movie or TV show that you hate, "MAD" has probably then ridiculed it in the exact same way that you saw it. Those movie and TV satires have always been a big part of this great magazine.

"MAD" even adds humor to their subscription offers and their advertisements for the books based on the magazine. Even their letters to the editor from the public can get very hilarious at times. So, even in the few sections that are not entirely devoted to humor, jokes, and cartoons; they are still giving out a lot of laughs.