Mad magazine, the class clown of American publishing, is being shuffled off to the periodical equivalent of an old-folks home at the age of 67. Instead, the “usual gang of idiots,” as the staff has long called itself on the masthead, will fill the magazine’s pages with old material. A giddy creation of the staid 1950s, Mad hit a circulation peak of 2.8 million in 1973. “Mad was, ‘The entire adult world is lying to you, and we are part of the adult world. "I think that shaped my entire generation.”

Source: International New York Times July 05, 2019 22:30 UTC