Hamm has gone from flogging the American dream to flogging the dreamer’s personal belongings. He wears his Mad Men heritage like a no-name vintage watch — stylish but not ostentatious, valuable but ...

Even before I read about those advertisements in Edward Tenner’s new book Why the Hindenburg Had a Smoking Lounge: Essays on Unintended Consequences (American Philosophical Society Press $34.95), my ...

This thing the advertising ... a cigarette lighter). It reminds us that the past has its own past. It moves, as Don says of the Carousel, “backwards and forwards.” At the same time, Mad ...

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 ...

Drawn by 80-year-old illustrator Norman Mingo, Mad magazine mascot Alfred E. Neuman graced the cover of Issue No. 181 in a glorious powdered wig. It’s one of 275 original paintings and drawings ...

They are the money honeys of television commercials and are so familiar, that it’s almost as if they are part of the family. With her perky, girl-next-door look, Jan from Toyota — A.K.A ...

Al Jaffee, Mad magazine’s award-winning cartoonist and ageless wise guy who delighted millions of kids with the sneaky fun of the Fold-In and the snark of Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions ...

NEW YORK — Al Jaffee, Mad magazine's award-winning cartoonist ... multiblade razors and self-extinguishing cigarettes. Jaffee's admirers ranged from Charles M. Schulz of "Peanuts" fame and ...

Several compilations of problematic tobacco ads feature a series of advertisements that use the imagery of a baby to market cigarettes to women: These are authentic ads that appeared in the ...