MAD Magazine is often overlooked as one of the longest running and most successful properties that DC Entertainment publishes. Of course, the early Harvey Kurtzman edited run, and seminal work by Will Elder, John Severin, Wally Wood, Al Jaffee and Sergio Aragones is justly lauded among comics history buffs, but with issue #535 coming out next week it's also the longest continually running comics periodical in the US. If it was just puttering along with jokes about these kids today and boring TV shows, perhaps it would be allowed to stay in its pasture, but in truth it's still putting out sharp satire with bold visuals and presenting the work of some of today's finest cartoonists—including Al Jaffee and Sergio Aragones.
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I’ve been subscribing to MAD for a few years now. My subscription copies generally arrive a week or so before the newsstands and comic shops get them. So I’ve read the issue you write about and agree with your assessment of it. There are some sweet political movie posters in the issue, too.
Great cover. According to Tom Richmond’s blog, the artist is frequent MAD cover artist Mark Fredrickson.
“…it’s also the longest continually running comics periodical in the US”
Perhaps the highest numbered… Archie and Action have been continuingly in print far longer.
(Both were also skewered early by MAD.)
Also, MAD’s blog, The Idiotical” is underappreciated…
http://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2015/08/06/mads-next-cover-hillary-clintons-furious-road-to-the-white-house