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After 67 years, hundreds of issues, a spinoff sketch comedy series and countless imitators, Mad Magazine as it has been known since 1952 is coming to an end, according to the magazine’s former editor, Allie Goertz.
“There’s been an outpour of kindness surrounding the rumor that @MADmagazine is ceasing publication, but Mad is not quite done,” Goertz tweeted late Wednesday night. “After the next Two great new issues are released, Mad will begin publishing bi-monthly issues with vintage pieces and new covers.”
“While there will be no new material after issue #10, @MADmagazine is not gone,” Goertz continued. “I find it deeply sad to learn that there will be no new content, but knowing history repeats itself, I have no doubt that the vintage pieces will be highly (if not tragically) relevant.”
Mad artist and writer David DeGrand elaborated on Twitter that the magazine “isn’t shutting down but is only...
“There’s been an outpour of kindness surrounding the rumor that @MADmagazine is ceasing publication, but Mad is not quite done,” Goertz tweeted late Wednesday night. “After the next Two great new issues are released, Mad will begin publishing bi-monthly issues with vintage pieces and new covers.”
“While there will be no new material after issue #10, @MADmagazine is not gone,” Goertz continued. “I find it deeply sad to learn that there will be no new content, but knowing history repeats itself, I have no doubt that the vintage pieces will be highly (if not tragically) relevant.”
Mad artist and writer David DeGrand elaborated on Twitter that the magazine “isn’t shutting down but is only...
- 7/4/2019
- by Ross A. Lincoln
- The Wrap
Skip Williamson (L), Jay Lynch
In this space two weeks ago, I wrote about the death of cartoonist and comix legend Jay Lynch. I noted his half-century friendship with Skip Williamson; despite their physical distance, I don’t think two people could have been closer.
As fate would have it, Skip died eleven days after Jay. Each was 72 years old. For long-time friends of the pair, for long-time fans of the pair – and I count myself among both groups – the timing was crippling. Skip long had heart problems so even though it was shocking, it wasn’t totally unexpected. However, there’s a kind of appropriateness about that timing that makes complete sense.
I won’t repeat their mutual history other than to mention the first comic book they pioneered was Bijou Funnies. Both had contributed to Harvey Kurtzman’s Help! Magazine and, later, to Playboy. Skip’s most revered character was Snappy Sammy Smoot,...
In this space two weeks ago, I wrote about the death of cartoonist and comix legend Jay Lynch. I noted his half-century friendship with Skip Williamson; despite their physical distance, I don’t think two people could have been closer.
As fate would have it, Skip died eleven days after Jay. Each was 72 years old. For long-time friends of the pair, for long-time fans of the pair – and I count myself among both groups – the timing was crippling. Skip long had heart problems so even though it was shocking, it wasn’t totally unexpected. However, there’s a kind of appropriateness about that timing that makes complete sense.
I won’t repeat their mutual history other than to mention the first comic book they pioneered was Bijou Funnies. Both had contributed to Harvey Kurtzman’s Help! Magazine and, later, to Playboy. Skip’s most revered character was Snappy Sammy Smoot,...
- 3/22/2017
- by Mike Gold
- Comicmix.com
Every town must have a place / Where phony hippies meet / Psychedelic dungeons / Popping up on every street • Frank Zappa, “Who Needs The Peace Corps?”
The late Sixties really did live up to its reputation. In my home town of Chicago hippie central was the Lincoln Park neighborhood around the iconic Biograph Theater, where, 34 years earlier, the FBI allegedly shot John Dillinger to death. Today, hippies can’t even afford to drive down Lincoln Avenue.
The area sported many blues and folk bars, giving such local talent as Steve Goodman, John Prine, Hound Dog Taylor and Harvey Mandel a place to strut their stuff. It was Mecca to the storefront theater movement, creating world-renown companies such as the Steppenwolf and the Organic Theater a home for newcomer writers and actors like David Mamet, Joe Mantegna, Laurie Metcalf, John Malkovich, and John Ostrander. A mile down the street was The Second City,...
The late Sixties really did live up to its reputation. In my home town of Chicago hippie central was the Lincoln Park neighborhood around the iconic Biograph Theater, where, 34 years earlier, the FBI allegedly shot John Dillinger to death. Today, hippies can’t even afford to drive down Lincoln Avenue.
The area sported many blues and folk bars, giving such local talent as Steve Goodman, John Prine, Hound Dog Taylor and Harvey Mandel a place to strut their stuff. It was Mecca to the storefront theater movement, creating world-renown companies such as the Steppenwolf and the Organic Theater a home for newcomer writers and actors like David Mamet, Joe Mantegna, Laurie Metcalf, John Malkovich, and John Ostrander. A mile down the street was The Second City,...
- 3/8/2017
- by Mike Gold
- Comicmix.com
One of the overlooked outcomes of last week’s election is the growth of the marijuana legalization movement. Buying, possessing and using the stuff is going to be legal for adults in Massachusetts, Nevada, California and Maine – as it is now in Colorado, Alaska, Washington State, Washington D.C., and Oregon. Over 20 percent of Americans reside in states where such use by adults is legal. In over half of these United States, weed is kosher for medicinal use.
First Fun Fact: A few years ago, the Heeb Magazine website informed us that, properly handled, cannabis is indeed kosher. That should popularize the Passover herb plate.
Second Fun Fact: If not for weed, we might not have our direct sales comic book distribution system. Back in the mid-60s, we started seeing retail outlets called “head shops” pop up all over this great nation. These places were sort of like today...
First Fun Fact: A few years ago, the Heeb Magazine website informed us that, properly handled, cannabis is indeed kosher. That should popularize the Passover herb plate.
Second Fun Fact: If not for weed, we might not have our direct sales comic book distribution system. Back in the mid-60s, we started seeing retail outlets called “head shops” pop up all over this great nation. These places were sort of like today...
- 11/16/2016
- by Mike Gold
- Comicmix.com
Last Thursday, the Lgbt Community Center here in Manhattan (a.k.a. The Center) had its opening reception for their exhibit Wendel’s World: Gay Life in the 1980s. For those of you that don’t know, Wendel was a comic that ran in The Advocate throughout the 1980s created and drawn exclusively by the underground comix pioneer, Howard Cruse.
The reception was filled people who have been passionate fans of Howard’s for decades, as well as some newcomers. The walls of the fourth floor of The Center were decked out in framed Wendel pages including one of my favorites where Wendel’s good friend Sterno has fun at his place with Cyril. Other notable Lgbt cartoonists such as Ivan Velez and Jennifer Camper were in attendance, as well as Howard’s husband Eddie Sedarbaum. They also had wine and cheese which isn’t a reason to go to these sort out things,...
The reception was filled people who have been passionate fans of Howard’s for decades, as well as some newcomers. The walls of the fourth floor of The Center were decked out in framed Wendel pages including one of my favorites where Wendel’s good friend Sterno has fun at his place with Cyril. Other notable Lgbt cartoonists such as Ivan Velez and Jennifer Camper were in attendance, as well as Howard’s husband Eddie Sedarbaum. They also had wine and cheese which isn’t a reason to go to these sort out things,...
- 5/24/2016
- by Joe Corallo
- Comicmix.com
I’ve said before that, despite liking to attend all flavors of fandom and comics conventions, including (clearly) the media guest-focused cons, I really love Baltimore Comic Con because it has stayed so focused on comics and comics creators. I’m happy to report that this has not changed.
I had a great time in Baltimore this year, doing some of the things that make me happiest at comic cons, like walking the exhibit hall and wandering Artist Alley to see what new things old friends are up to, meet folks whose work I know but whom I’ve never chatted with, and flip through the work of creators I haven’t ever encountered before. Amongst the fun things I discovered were this nifty accordion-style comic by Christa Cassano and Dean Haspiel; a gorgeous limited edition coloring book by Charles Vess, whose work I’ve loved for a long time...
I had a great time in Baltimore this year, doing some of the things that make me happiest at comic cons, like walking the exhibit hall and wandering Artist Alley to see what new things old friends are up to, meet folks whose work I know but whom I’ve never chatted with, and flip through the work of creators I haven’t ever encountered before. Amongst the fun things I discovered were this nifty accordion-style comic by Christa Cassano and Dean Haspiel; a gorgeous limited edition coloring book by Charles Vess, whose work I’ve loved for a long time...
- 9/29/2015
- by Emily S. Whitten
- Comicmix.com
From zombies to demons to superheroes and beyond, Image Comics will have something for everyone at this week's Comic-Con, and their full Sdcc schedule with complete details has now been revealed.
Press Release: "Image Comics (booth #2729) is pleased to be at San Diego Comic-Con this year from Wednesday, July 8 through Sunday, July 12.
Variants Sold At The Image Booth (booth #2729):
Chew #50 by John Layman & Rob Guillory, $10 Injection #3 by Warren Ellis & Declan Shalvey, $10 Mythic #2 by Phil Hester & John McCrea, cover art by Sean Gordon Murphy, $10 Shutter #13 by Joe Keatinge & Leila del Duca, cover art by Jonathan Hickman, $10 Starve #2 by Brian Wood & Danijel Zezelj, $10 Wytches by Scott Snyder & Jock, $35 They're Not Like Us, Vol. 1 by Eric Stephenson & Simon Gane, $20 Nowhere Men, Vol. 1 by Eric Stephenson & Nate Bellegarde, $9.99 Nowhere Men, Vol.1 Tp (Red) by Eric Stephenson & Nate Bellegarde, $9.99 Nowhere Men Shirt Teal, W/M Xs-xxl, $20 Nowhere Men Shirt Red, W/M Xs-xxl,...
Press Release: "Image Comics (booth #2729) is pleased to be at San Diego Comic-Con this year from Wednesday, July 8 through Sunday, July 12.
Variants Sold At The Image Booth (booth #2729):
Chew #50 by John Layman & Rob Guillory, $10 Injection #3 by Warren Ellis & Declan Shalvey, $10 Mythic #2 by Phil Hester & John McCrea, cover art by Sean Gordon Murphy, $10 Shutter #13 by Joe Keatinge & Leila del Duca, cover art by Jonathan Hickman, $10 Starve #2 by Brian Wood & Danijel Zezelj, $10 Wytches by Scott Snyder & Jock, $35 They're Not Like Us, Vol. 1 by Eric Stephenson & Simon Gane, $20 Nowhere Men, Vol. 1 by Eric Stephenson & Nate Bellegarde, $9.99 Nowhere Men, Vol.1 Tp (Red) by Eric Stephenson & Nate Bellegarde, $9.99 Nowhere Men Shirt Teal, W/M Xs-xxl, $20 Nowhere Men Shirt Red, W/M Xs-xxl,...
- 7/8/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
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