MAD Magazine to Cease Publication
4th July 2019
MAD Magazine will cease publication later this year, according to reports. Blogger Jedidiah Leland reportedly discovered the news after a MAD editor confessed to the magazine’s doom in a Facebook group, and shortly thereafter, cartoonist Ruben Bolling seemed to confirm the report on Twitter. Of course, Bolling is not a MAD cartoonist (although he did have work published in it in 2005), so he may have been simply responding to the growing volume of responses to the Leland report.
July 5th, 2019 at 07:23
Sad that such a classic is going away. I spent many hours reading Mad at the grocery store (a few pages at a time so the clerk wouldn’t run me off). Spy vs. Spy was always funny. They did parodies of just about everything. Even “Hamlet, the Musical” with clever stuff like, “…Rosencrantz and Gilderstern, inka, dinka, dink! Rosencrantz and Gilderstern, Inc.!..”