They Must be Mad

In the industry the regular staff at Mad Magazine are known as "the usual gang of idiots", they gave the reigns to some of the top Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonists in the industry free reign to bushwhack their good old president of the United States. This is a ploy that their editor would pull if he were alive to day. As much as I like Mad, I truly think their days are long gone. They magazine is now in color, and the humor is tame, there are other venues out there who do a better job. Mad will make way of the Dodo bird as will the newspapers to the Internet. There used to be a day when they parodied you and it was the equivalence of an Andy Warhol 15 minute fame. Big deal if you make it on Mad today, the tabloids is where you want to be.  It’s too bad, many creative people have gone through the Mad revolving doors, the mag owes a life line to Warner Brothers. If it were to exist as a sole entity, it would long cease to exist. With deep pockets from Warner, Mad is just a token to the print industry or just a mini hype-machine for the Mad TV Show, a dreadful rip of Saturday Night Live. Alfred I would be worried, your mag is old school, teach us a new trick.