Mad for Decades: 50 Years of Forgettable Humor from MAD Magazine

by John Ficarra and MAD Magazine

Synopsis In the embarrassing tradition of MAD About the Fifites, MAD About the Sixties, MAD About the Seventies, MAD About the Eighties, and MAD About the Nineties comes this inevitable and shameless... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1435101286
• ISBN13: 9781435101289
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble / Metro Books
• Length: 864 Pages
• Weight: 2.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.5" x 6.5" x 7.8"

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A fine sample of satire from the best humor magazine ever

It's great to see MAD Magazine's works being printed in book form for those of us who discovered this irreverant magazine as teenagers and never grew tired of it until probably the late '90's, when most of the original staff was gone, and ads were appearing, which, to MAD veterans, was sacrilege, although understandably fiscally necessary. For those craving the salad days, "MAD For Decades" gives us a peak at some of its best material, from the original comic book form at its inception, the first pages of the now classic format showing up in the late '50's, and then three decades of slamming everybody and everything. Some of the stuff is admittedly sophomoric, but we all can be from time to time. At other times, the commentary was funny but brutally accurate. The spoof of Falwell's "Moral Majority", called the "Model Majority" in MAD, was nothing short of brilliant. Plus, we see the earliest works of Jack Davis, Bob Clarke, and George Woodbridge, and the infamous Don Martin, whose collective artwork defined the genre. For casual readers, it's worth the price for the look at the times as each issue was published. Sort of a satirical history book, you might say, plus satires of "Gunsmoke", "Perry Mason", "The Godfather" and "M*A*S*H,", here titled "M*A*S*H*U*G*A". I also recommend the "bathroom readers" that feature the best of the short articles and one or two page articles. A magazine that was scorned in its heyday, and is now acknowledged as a cultural icon, MAD deserves our respect.