Thatababy by Paul Trap for October 13, 2019

I think I broke my monitor on Al Jaffee’s fold-in.

Oh no! Not MAD Magazine!

Anything but MAD!

I loved that rag back in the day!

What me, mourn? (Yes… yes I will).

is the fold in a heart? Inquiring minds want to know!

I’ve read every issue since #1 I’m really going to miss it. Did I mention that I’m older than Mud? Wish I had kept them all.

Very nice tribute!

If all the people that lament the downfall of MAD magazine had purchased it, Alfred E. Neuman wouldn’t have to worry.

Oh well, I’ll be looking for the end of the year issue.

I just now noticed the two MAD Marginals!

Mad lost me with their reboot or whatever you want to call it, in 1997. In the interest of trying to get a new younger readership, they became more crude and juvenile — starting with the infamous cover that showed Alfred sitting on a copy machine, xeroxing his bare butt. Never read it again, except for collections of the great old material.

Don’t miss the magazine. It never caught on with my video-game generation and younger. But I will miss the spy vs spy board game.

I’ve had a subscription for years. Before that (when I just got them from the newsstands), I learned to draw cartoons by copying ones in my Mad magazine.