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Mad, June 1974 “Bussing In Other Areas for the Purpose of Social Integration” Writer: Arnie Kogen Art: George Woodbridge This carto...

“Mad Magazine” January 1978 “He’s Company” Writer: Arnie Kogen Artist: Angelo Torres In many respects, this is a fairly acc...

While from the hindsight of 35 years we can note approvingly all the stand-ups, columnists, talk-show hosts, comedians and sitcoms that crit...

"Star Roars" Mad Magazine, January 1978 Writers: Larry Siegel and Dick De Bartolo So if C3PO is a camp seeming robot, how d...

Mad, October 1973 “Standards Rewritten for the Liberated Woman”, by Frank Jacobs And this is the standard “Mad” effort, where I once again d...

from “Appropriate Comic Strip Sound Effects” in Mad July 1969 Pretty much the same joke as Chic Jacob’s http://ukjarry.blogspot.com/2008/02/...

by Arnold Roth, from “Keep Your Hands Off My Machismo” in Punch” 19 March 1975 from “Mad” October 1978 America’s sports are integral to Amer...

Almost all the cartoons I shall be dredging up over the next couple of days, when they’re not about inappropriate sexual attraction, are ins...

Summer camp is a traditionally outdoorsy and active, rough and tumble boysy American rite of passage. And in contrast we all know that young...

“A Mad Look at the Clorox Commercial” from “Mad Magazine” December 1978 Again, a pastiche of a popular ad strategy. Again, the momsers at “M...

from “Mad Magazine” January 1979 written by Lou Silverstone, drawn by Angelo Torres Here we have some pertinent excerpts from a parody of “T...

We’re seen cartoonist literalise some phrase for comic effect, i.e “Roaring Poof” A similar technique is, when some word of longstanding use...

in “Mad” April, 1974 And here we have one of the most famous and durable features from “Mad” – a fold-in by Al Jaffee. How you are going to ...

Dave Berg in “Mad” October 1968 There are a moderate amount of gags at the end of the 60s about fashion and gender – deriving either from th...

From “Mad” September 1993 A juvenile reference (toys), but surprisingly bold and effective. Although we all know that Action Man is packing ...

from “A Mad Look at the Real Clinton Coalition” in “Mad” July 1993 Unsurprisingly “Mad” aims for 9 year olds of all ages.

from “Greeting Cards for the Sexual Revolution” in “Mad”, September 1971 "Pansy Yokum" is a character from the cartoon strip ...

in "Mad Magazine", January 1969 When I first saw this, I got my dates mixed up and thought this appeared about 6 months after Ston...

in “Mad”, June 1969 Dave Berg offers a fairly realistic assessment of why the word “faggot” gets thrown around so much in teenage years. Ber...