Lio by Mark Tatulli for July 31, 2019

Whatever happened to Alfred E. Neuman? MAD magazine would probably be binned these days.

This is so true on sooooo many levels.

Wish I could, Alfred. Wish I could….

The whole world has lost its sense of humour…

“What, me worry?”, has sadly come back to haunt Alfred E. Newman

Mad Magazine is now owned by DC Comics.

Yes Alfred, yes it has…

Mark probably read the story about Mad Magazine closing down… https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/mad-magazine-effectively-close-67-years-1222636

NOW him worried!

It’s gone from a mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World to a Sad, Sad, Sad, Sad. World. Too many people now take themselves way too seriously.

More truth than poetry.

MAD Magazine lost its sense of humor years ago. It died a slow death, after losing the classic “usual gang of idiots” from the 1960s and 1970s. MAD TV was brilliant, though.

Was so sad to hear that MAD Magazine is ceasing production of new material.

Ironic, given the bittern, narrow, humorless partisanship of Tatulli’s tweets.

yuck, just visited their web site. I’m evidently not their target audience.

I don’t know about him, but I’m worried about that.

We could start by not politicizing in the comments or being offended by anything you don’t like instead of just ignoring what you don’t like.

Good one, Mr Tatulli! —Are you old enough to remember the Kefauver Committee investigation into Juvenile Delinquency in 1954? Inter alia, they were worried about the corrosive effect of comic books on kids’ morality and behavior? Well, OK, maybe “Tales from the Crypt” and that sort of thing might have warped a few little pink brains, not that it’s easy to see such things as instigating antisocial behavior as such, but as I remember, “Mad Magazine” was singled out as a cause for concern. Satire, you know . . . irony even. Horrible. Perusing a single issue of “Mad Magazine” would undo all the good of a season of “Leave It To Beaver”.

the first time i had ever heard of alfred e. newman was on a bumper sticker in san francisco in the ’60s that said “alfred e. newman for president”.

With the current political climate, political humor is dead. The Onion is in danger of going next.

Alfred looks huge here.

What, me worry? Yes, I do! We need laughter and humor now more than ever these days. Mad Magazine ending is a horrible tragedy.

The truth of this strip makes it more sad than funny…

Well, you better start looking for it then but where to start?

Lio would be right at home in Alfred E. Neuman’s old home magazine. I mourn the loss of the old-time Mad sanity, too….

So he does worry.