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What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of Mad Magazine

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Re: What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of Mad Magazine

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ethbr1 wrote: post #2

Through my childhood, my mother always found a copy of MAD to give me for Christmas. Honestly, it'd be great to have more physical zine-style humor back in the US zeitgeist. It's important to laugh at the issues of the day, while also thinking and doing something about them. Satire and laughter is a critical antidote to the 24/7 BREAKING-NEWS panic-fear response that all-day news so often inspires. PS: Also, long liv…

> It's important to laugh at the issues of the day, while also thinking and doing something about them.

Laughter has this incredible way of cutting through the noise and getting to the heart of things.

Re: What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of Mad Magazine

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baerrie wrote: post #77

Every Friday from age 7-12 my mom would take me to the grocery store with her and proceed to take 2 hours to shop. I would read every comic they had including MAD and Cracked. Also superhero stuff

A fantastic way to spend those grocery trips!

Re: What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of Mad Magazine

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arp242 wrote: post #46
mdf wrote: post #17

I remember, as a child, attempting to reproduce the BASIC program in one of the MAD magazine issues. Somewhere, I had made a typo, which completely screwed the output. I guessed that the tediousness of the whole exercise was part of the joke, shrugged, and moved on. Luckily, someone else succeeded: https://meatfighter.com/mad/

It was pretty common to distribute code as "listing" like this. Typically it came with a checksum for every line and a small program to compute and print that for your own program that you had typed over, which you could then use to fairly quickly(-ish) spot any typos. All of this is how I learned to program by the way. Kids these days don't know how easy they have it.

I would take typing a program by hand from printed paper over dealing with npm, any day.

Thankfully I have to do neither.

Re: What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of Mad Magazine

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trothamel wrote: post #60

I saw this exhibition a few weeks ago. My generally feeling was it didn't work that well, mostly because the MAD stuff is very dense, more dense than you'd expect from painting in an art gallery. A lot of it is also very dependent on pop culture that has changed in the interim. Probably the two best pieces were the direct parodies of the Rockwell paintings, exhibited next to the pieces they parodied. The Rockwell mus…

Some pop culture has changed in the interim. A couple times a decade, I find myself using the "Ordinary conformists / Non-conformists / MAD non-conformists" article I saw in my grandparent's collection as a child.

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frankfrank13 wrote: post #14

I love MAD magazine. I remember my mom half-jokingly telling me to stay away from my older cousins' copies as a kid. Funny now, considering how tame it is compared to Tiktok/twitter humor. But as a kid it felt otherwordly. Anyways here's the example MAD folding picture from the exhibit when its folded -- https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbtwberkshi...

> Anyways here's the example MAD folding picture from the exhibit when its folded -- https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbtwberkshi......

Working link to the page that contains the picture: https://btwberkshires.com/arts/visual-arts/mad-magazine-draw...

Re: What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of Mad Magazine

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Post by UncleSlacky »

mdaniel wrote: post #55
CobrastanJorji wrote: post #49

Are there any Mad Magazines of today? Are there some publications that we'll look back on in 20 years and say "that really shaped humor and it's crazy how many interesting people seem to have all read this when they were young?" Are they online?

This may interest you: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=totally+mad+magazine&ia=web > "Totally MAD" is a collection of the issues of MAD Magazine from the start until 1998 published by Broderbund

There's also an updated set on DVD called "Absolutely MAD" which goes to 2006: https://madcoversite.com/cd.html

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Post by tyre »

arp242 wrote: post #46
mdf wrote: post #17

I remember, as a child, attempting to reproduce the BASIC program in one of the MAD magazine issues. Somewhere, I had made a typo, which completely screwed the output. I guessed that the tediousness of the whole exercise was part of the joke, shrugged, and moved on. Luckily, someone else succeeded: https://meatfighter.com/mad/

It was pretty common to distribute code as "listing" like this. Typically it came with a checksum for every line and a small program to compute and print that for your own program that you had typed over, which you could then use to fairly quickly(-ish) spot any typos. All of this is how I learned to program by the way. Kids these days don't know how easy they have it.

> Kids these days don't know how easy they have it.

Maybe it’s rose-colored glasses, but I have much fonder memories of programming basic on a Ti-84 calculator than debugging an import incompatibility between. Es5 and CommonJS modules

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