Mad magazine to stop publishing issues with new content this fall
Source: ABC
The magazine, famous for the grinning face of character Alfred E. Neuman and his slogan, "What, me worry?", will stop publishing issues with new writing after issue No. 10, according to DC, which publishes the magazine. Starting with issue No. 11 there will be republished content sent to subscribers and sold in comic shops.
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"After issue #10 this fall there will no longer be new content -- except for the end-of-year specials which will always be all new," DC said in a statement to ABC News. "So starting with issue #11 the magazine will feature classic, best-of and nostalgic content from the last 67 years."
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The publication was founded in 1952 by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines, but it was Al Feldstein, who took over for Kurtzman and led the magazine for almost 30 years, who brought the outlet to national -- and international -- prominence, especially in the 1970s.
It peaked at 2.8 million subscribers in 1973, but had just 140,000 left as of 2017.
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Well, that's the end of an era. Difficult for print-oriented media to survive in the internet age, and difficult for satire to survive in the Trump age.
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Sergio Aragones. (sp?)
His cartoons, especially those little ones along the sides, would crack me up.
I absolutely loved his "Groo The Wanderer."
