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AICN COMICS: Special Preview of MAD MAGAZINE’s 20 Dumbest People, Events, & Things 2011!

Published at:  Dec 13, 2011 9:07:28 AM CST

Ambush Bug here with a special preview of MAD MAGAZINE #513 which contains its annual end of the year "20 Dumbest People, Events & Things" feature which hits stands on December 20th. The guys at MAD has given me a chance to share the #12 item on that list. Enjoy!
 

And check out the cover for MAD MAGAZINE #513!
 

Be sure to look for MAD MAGAZINE #513 on Dec 20th!
 

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• Dec 13, 2011 9:09:00 AM CST

  guh

  by mechameat

  guh

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• Dec 13, 2011 9:21:39 AM CST

  A Goldman Sachs exec is holding the fishing pole.

  by burnhollywood

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• Dec 13, 2011 9:22:46 AM CST

  ...Now, let the "Where's Obama's dick?" conversations begin.

  by burnhollywood

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• Dec 13, 2011 9:29:09 AM CST

  I like MAD

  by moozikmktr

  says the 12-year-old me.
  MAD is pretty much useless these days because celebrities and media are quite willing to satirize themselves - sometimes for free.

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  Content says the 12-year-old me. MAD is pretty much useless these days because celebrities and media are quite willing to satirize themselves - sometimes for free.

• Dec 13, 2011 9:29:40 AM CST

  99% of every thing and every one from this year was fucking dumb

  by alienindisguise

  Impossible to narrow it down.

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• Dec 13, 2011 9:30:40 AM CST

  Could it be that Mad is even more unfunny than Cracked?

  by mugato5150

  I mean obviously I stopped reading either magazine when I was 12 but I do haunt fark.com and they continually post articles from cracked.com. All of which are embarrassingly unfunny and for some reason are all more than to pages long no matter how short the article is, just to get the page hits. Is Mad in some sort of perverse contest with Cracked in which can be lamer?

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  Content I mean obviously I stopped reading either magazine when I was 12 but I do haunt fark.com and they continually post articles from cracked.com. All of which are embarrassingly unfunny and for some reason are all more than to pages long no matter how short the article is, just to get the page hits. Is Mad in some sort of perverse contest with Cracked in which can be lamer?

• Dec 13, 2011 9:31:20 AM CST

  Hastings: The Token Goy Money-Grubbing CEO

  by has_snyder_been_fired_from_superman_yet

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• Dec 13, 2011 9:38:14 AM CST

  Cracked.com is actually way funnier

  by hst666

  than the vast majority of stuff in their magazine ever was. Mad can still be amusing as I have seen images and posters from the magazine over the years, which made me laugh (The Gulf Wars II - The Clone of the Attack - was great)

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  Content than the vast majority of stuff in their magazine ever was. Mad can still be amusing as I have seen images and posters from the magazine over the years, which made me laugh (The Gulf Wars II - The Clone of the Attack - was great)

• Dec 13, 2011 9:38:23 AM CST

  alienindisguise = I have to grudgingly agree with you. Tough year all around. I haven't looked at MAD in years but I assume this issue is the size of the New York Yellow Pages. Is MAD really not funny anymore like some here are suggesting? Bummer if true

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• Dec 13, 2011 9:56:58 AM CST

  Ahhh...MAD and Cracked.

  by blue_demon

  Two fun magazines I grew up with when I was a little kid in the seventies. MAD's Harry North Esq. was one of the artists who got me into drawing. His STAR WARS illustrations in the MAD take-off are fantastic. The 1976 KING KONG parody was great as well. He had a fantastic ink wash technique (or maybe it was black watercolor?)
  
  Cracked had John Severin and he used an incredible duo-tone board technique to achieve grays. The man could draw ANYTHING with that technique. I wonder...I haven't picked up a MAD in ages. Is the artwork still good?

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  Content Two fun magazines I grew up with when I was a little kid in the seventies. MAD's Harry North Esq. was one of the artists who got me into drawing. His STAR WARS illustrations in the MAD take-off are fantastic. The 1976 KING KONG parody was great as well. He had a fantastic ink wash technique (or maybe it was black watercolor?) Cracked had John Severin and he used an incredible duo-tone board technique to achieve grays. The man could draw ANYTHING with that technique. I wonder...I haven't picked up a MAD in ages. Is the artwork still good?

• Dec 13, 2011 10:41:29 AM CST

  Despised Cracked back in the day and LOVED Mad...

  by shut the fuck up donny

  I think my alliances started to switch a few years after Gaines and Kurtzman died in the early 90's. It was clear they were still the heart and soul of the magazine even after 40 years...
  
  @ Blue Demon, have you had the pleasure of looking at Severin's early stuff in the original Mad comics of the 50's? His work was phenomenal even at a young age. Mad screwed up big time losing him.
  
  I had always wanted to see him and Mort Drucker (or Angelo Torres for that matter) go head-to-head on a film parody.

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  Content I think my alliances started to switch a few years after Gaines and Kurtzman died in the early 90's. It was clear they were still the heart and soul of the magazine even after 40 years... @ Blue Demon, have you had the pleasure of looking at Severin's early stuff in the original Mad comics of the 50's? His work was phenomenal even at a young age. Mad screwed up big time losing him. I had always wanted to see him and Mort Drucker (or Angelo Torres for that matter) go head-to-head on a film parody.

• Dec 13, 2011 10:53:45 AM CST

  I grew up with Mad Magazine & didn't realize they were still being published.

  by openthepodbaydoorshal

  The one I really miss is National Lampoon, and then not quite as much, Spy.

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  Content The one I really miss is National Lampoon, and then not quite as much, Spy.

• Dec 13, 2011 10:56:32 AM CST

  12 years old?

  by essemtee

  Seems to be the target age of loyal MAD readers... heh, that's when I was reading issue after issue. Then one year, the paper became glossy, and the publication caved into showing video game advertisements on every second page. I still check it out at the newsstand from time to time. Still as juvenile as ever, and even a bit more, dare I say it, edgy humor, not as corny. I still say The Ecchorcist is the best movie parody they've ever done.

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  Content Seems to be the target age of loyal MAD readers... heh, that's when I was reading issue after issue. Then one year, the paper became glossy, and the publication caved into showing video game advertisements on every second page. I still check it out at the newsstand from time to time. Still as juvenile as ever, and even a bit more, dare I say it, edgy humor, not as corny. I still say The Ecchorcist is the best movie parody they've ever done.

• Dec 13, 2011 11:10:05 AM CST

  MAD is pretty much responsible for my twisted sense of humor.

  by damned if i can login

  Read it constantly as a kid, and I won't deny that it definitely influenced me in various and insidious ways.
  
  Although some of the Jewish references eluded me back then, we didn't have a Jewish demographic in the small town I grew up in. Kinda like Cheech & Chong, when I first listened to them I didn't understand all the dope references.
  
  For instance, the MAD parody of the series M*A*S*H was M*A*S*H-UGA.
  
  I had no clue as to what it meant back then, but now I get a huge laugh just thinking about how smart that joke was!
  
  Mashuga.....still cracks me up.

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  Content Read it constantly as a kid, and I won't deny that it definitely influenced me in various and insidious ways. Although some of the Jewish references eluded me back then, we didn't have a Jewish demographic in the small town I grew up in. Kinda like Cheech & Chong, when I first listened to them I didn't understand all the dope references. For instance, the MAD parody of the series M*A*S*H was M*A*S*H-UGA. I had no clue as to what it meant back then, but now I get a huge laugh just thinking about how smart that joke was! Mashuga.....still cracks me up.

• Dec 13, 2011 11:22:02 AM CST

  As long as it contains ads, it isn't Mad Magazine.

  by royston lodge

  So say we all.

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  Content So say we all.

• Dec 13, 2011 11:46:11 AM CST

  I still look forward to it

  by gregmeister

  Call me crazy, but I like to have it on the back of my toilet, you never know when you might run out of paper.
  That and a lot of it is topical and funny.

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  Content Call me crazy, but I like to have it on the back of my toilet, you never know when you might run out of paper. That and a lot of it is topical and funny.

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