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Thursday, September 04, 2014
If Norman Rockwell depicted today's America.
Damn I have not read a Mad magazine for a decade or more.
I forgot just how great they were at using parody to illustrate the problems in our world.
I waited every month for that mag all thru high school...and this picture nailed it!!!!! Its only taken 5 years for the rest of this country to notice what happened when a black man was in the White House, a fact we all knew right away. The haters living underground crawled out from under the rocks into the light of day and finally had a common hate. The midterms cant come soon enough.
A newstand copy of Mad costs $6. While it is worth it, most working class kids might not be able to afford it! (Maybe I can slip it in at the register to get Food Stamps to pay for it!)
Mad was my northern star, my touchstone, my wicked balloon-puncturing guide to the big scary outside world as I grew up.
While living with two chain-smoking parents (cigarettes since have claimed the life of one), only Mad had the brass balls and the no-ads policy that allowed then to lampoon the tobacco industry.
I had a subscription to Mad as my sons were growing up, but the world had changed. Fortunately, they didn't NEED Mad the way I did, but they enjoyed it.
Thanks for reminding me, Gryphen, that Mad still employs its stiletto... though if Norman Rockwell lived today, I'd like to believe that he would have updated his own classic work accordingly.
Huge fan of Mad Magazine and Cracked. I loved the margined "Spy vs Spy" drawings as well as their snark about social issues of the day. I can't believe how much comic books, satire magazines and papers cost compared to when we got them. I'm also very fond of Norman Rockwell's works, they're glimpses of history and the human condition of his times.
I waited every month for that mag all thru high school...and this picture nailed it!!!!! Its only taken 5 years for the rest of this country to notice what happened when a black man was in the White House, a fact we all knew right away. The haters living underground crawled out from under the rocks into the light of day and finally had a common hate. The midterms cant come soon enough.
ReplyDeleteA newstand copy of Mad costs $6. While it is worth it, most working class kids might not be able to afford it! (Maybe I can slip it in at the register to get Food Stamps to pay for it!)
ReplyDeleteGood gosh! I remember how peeved I was when the price rose from thirty cents to thirty-five... Six bucks?!?
DeleteMad was my northern star, my touchstone, my wicked balloon-puncturing guide to the big scary outside world as I grew up.
ReplyDeleteWhile living with two chain-smoking parents (cigarettes since have claimed the life of one), only Mad had the brass balls and the no-ads policy that allowed then to lampoon the tobacco industry.
I had a subscription to Mad as my sons were growing up, but the world had changed. Fortunately, they didn't NEED Mad the way I did, but they enjoyed it.
Thanks for reminding me, Gryphen, that Mad still employs its stiletto... though if Norman Rockwell lived today, I'd like to believe that he would have updated his own classic work accordingly.
Huge fan of Mad Magazine and Cracked. I loved the margined "Spy vs Spy" drawings as well as their snark about social issues of the day. I can't believe how much comic books, satire magazines and papers cost compared to when we got them.
ReplyDeleteI'm also very fond of Norman Rockwell's works, they're glimpses of history and the human condition of his times.