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unusual facts about Mad magazine



Angelo Torres

From October, 1968 until March, 1980 he drew the satires of contemporary U.S. television shows as the penultimate feature in Mad magazine (whereas Mort Drucker drew the movie parodies in its opening portions).

DC: The New Frontier

Stories included a Batman vs. Superman that revealed that it was not until the mid-1950s that Superman and Wonder Woman met Batman, a post-New Frontier story where Robin teams up with Kid Flash for the first time as well as a Mad Magazine style story between Wonder Woman and Black Canary.

Greg Laub

Laub's writing and video production credits also include contributions to MAD magazine and full-time stints as a journalist and producer with the U.S. Open, the USTA, and the NBA.

Kidsguide

Such illustrators have included Mort Drucker (Mad Magazine), Jack Davis (The Zack Files, Marsupial Sue), David Catrow (Stand Tall Molly Lou Mellon) and Brian Biggs (illustrator for MOMA's children's web site).

Lenore Skenazy

Skenazy also wrote and reported for NPR and Mad Magazine, and was featured in the second episode of Bravo's series Tabloid Wars.

Monte Wolverton

Monte Wolverton is an American editorial cartoonist who is best known for his satiric pages in Mad, his Weekly Wolvertoon website and his contributions as the managing editor of The Plain Truth.

Prison Break: Proof of Innocence

The various ten-second advertisements which precede the mobisodes, are part of a campaign titled "Yaris vs. Yaris", inspired by Mad Magazine's "Spy vs. Spy" that showcases two endlessly duelling black hat and white hat spies.

Stanisław Szukalski

In 1971, Glenn Bray, a publisher who had previously specialized in the work of Mad Magazine artist Basil Wolverton, befriended him and later published one book of Szukalski's art, Inner Portraits (1980), and another of his art and philosophy, A Trough Full of Pearls / Behold! The Protong (1982).

The Brown Jug

The so-called "New Brown Jug" scrapped the Mad Magazine style of the 1967-2008 period, instead opting for a clean black-and-white design with content more akin to the long-form satire found in McSweeney's.


see also

What It Was, Was Football

"What it Was, Was Football" was printed in Mad magazine in 1958, with illustrations by artist George Woodbridge.