Review: The MAD Morality
OnThe MAD Morality is an odd duck amongst the world of MAD paperbacks. Originally published by the Christian-based Abingdon Press in 1970 and receiving a second paperback edition by Signet in 1972, it’s remembered more as an oddity amongst both MAD and…
Interview: Tim Johnson, MAD Collector
OnI discovered Tim Johnson on Facebook as a fellow MAD collector… but as it turns out, his collection puts mine to shame. After paging through his photo albums of all the cool stuff he has and coveting some of the stuff I’d…
A MAD Look at MAD Music
OnFor most of its history, MAD magazine has been at the forefront of gleefully juvenile printed humor. Its pop culture spoofs are legendary, its cartoonists among the finest humorists of their generation. But along the way, MAD created some of the most…
Review: Al Jaffee's Mad Life
OnAl Jaffee is one of the most talented cartoonists in the world; not only is he a great artist, but he’s incredibly clever. After all, he’s the guy who not only invented the Fold-In, but has done over 400 of the things….
A World Gone Mad: The History of Spy vs. Spy
OnAt the end of World War II mankind stared breathlessly into oblivion. Scientists had split the atom, and the Atomic Age had begun. In a matter of months warfare had transformed from year-long conflicts between infantry, to weapons that could vaporize a…
Review: Below Code
OnTerre Thaemlitz is pretty cool, and he’s got his own label, Comatonse , and has had it for a long time. For the 10th anniversary, he compiled Below Code. The original release was a CD in a DVD case filled with postcards…
Wouldn’t It Be Nice If You Could Rock Like We Do?
OnSort of along the lines of The Grey Album, apparently the Beatles/Beach Boys rivalry isn’t dead. Here’s Hippocamp Ruins Pet Sounds, a remix/cut-up of the original Pet Sounds album by a bunch of different artists.
Review: God’s Angry Man
OnImage via Wikipedia I’d been wanting to watch God’s Angry Man for a while, now; after all, it’s a documentary on a televangelist [SFW, despite being rotten.com] made by Werner Herzog. So, you know, it’d stand to reason that I’d be all…
In Defense of Beavis & Butthead
OnYeah, I was going to say: It’s easy to dismiss that series as just ‘idiots on TV watching idiots on TV‘ but if you really stop to appreciate what Mike Judge is laying down there, we’d see that what’s so appealing about…