Turning Mad into a magazine was his lifeboat ... Gaines didn’t even mind when Kurtzman’s parodies of ads miffed advertisers. In fact, after the break with Kurtzman, Gaines decided to make ...

Not until Mad magazine arrived to poke holes in everything from politics to movies to advertising ... Kurtzman decided that if they were going to parody comics, they might as well set their ...

Mad sold 2.1 million copies. It was wildly profitable, even though Bill Gaines (its publisher from the magazine's founding until his death in 1992) refused to accept advertising. "This is just a ...

Mad has been a reliable source source of satire and parody of pop culture and politics since Harvey Kurtzman and William Gaines founded the comic book-turned-magazine in 1952. The magazine is part ...

The artist who drew a four-page comic strip for our MAD parody was Dan. E. Burr. The strip depicts a contrived conversation about Madison’s comedic history between Madison Magazine Editorial ...

Al Feldstein, the man who turned Mad magazine into a must-read for teens ... and more recently in editorial cartoonists' parodies of President George W. Bush, notably a cover image The Nation ...

Neuman, it was unforgivable. Yes, Mad magazine has finally started taking ads. After holding out for nearly 50 years, the caretakers of this American humor institution have finally buckled ...