Mad is known for many recurring routine and semi-regular features on its page. Video Recurring features in Mad (magazine)
Fold-ins
Every problem but two of the Mad from 1964 to the present has featured Fold-in, designed by Al Jaffee artist. They usually appear on the back cover of the inside, although there is one problem featuring the front cover Fold and the final edition of "Mad 20" moves the feature to the interior page. In every Fold-in question asked, it is often topical. Subjects are illustrated with images that take most of the page, with a text block underneath. When the page is folded in, the four inside and outside images combine to reveal alternative answers in both pictures and words. The right Jaffee layout sometimes includes fake visual cues designed to trick the reader's eyes against the wrong solution.
Maps Recurring features in Mad (magazine)
"The Lighter Side of the..."
From 1961 to 2002, Dave Berg produced "The Lighter Side of...", which often quipped the suburban lifestyle, capitalism and generational gaps. Subjects that are generally reviled include medicines, office life, parties, weddings, psychiatry, shopping, schooling and other daily activities. Although this feature eventually became famous for its dashing jokes and outdated fashion choices, the editors Mad reported that it was the most popular feature in the magazine. "The Lighter Side" is more sharp in the early years, providing a kind of Americana-based humor that stands like Shelley Berman and Alan King performing successfully on stage. The feature has been retired with Berg's death.
Four months after Berg's last work was published, his last gaggup, written by Berg, but not penciled, came as a tribute. The last Lighter Side strip is shared among 18 regular artist magazines, including Jack Davis's last original work for Mad. In 2007, the occasional feature called "Dark Side of Lighter" debuted. It consists of reprinted Berg strips, with rewritten word balloons that turn jokes into references to illness, sex offenders, bodily disposal and other unpleasant topics, such as Berg.
"Spy vs. Spy"
Antonio ProhÃÆ'as's "Spy vs. Spy", an endless battle between the iconic Black Spy and White Spy, ends with a Cold War inspiring it. Except for each of their black/white outfits, both springs are identical in looks and intentions. The strip is a silent metaphor of the futility of mutually agreed destruction, with a variety of elaborate death traps designed in the thick lines of Prohasia. Usually, the trap will backfire where the spy has made it up. There is no pattern or command that determines which spy will be killed in a particular episode. A "Gray Spy" woman occasionally appears; unlike his two opponents, he always wins. Although Prohasia retired from doing strips in the late 1980s, "Spy vs. Spy" continued in a series of different hands until 1997, when Peter Kuper took over as a full-time writer. However, the original Morse Code byline "by Prohias" remains in the title of each strip.
Don Martin gags
Don Martin, billed as "Maddest Maddest Artist," draws a gag cartoon, generally one page but sometimes longer, featuring lumpen characters with apparently hinged legs. Martin's absurd waste is often punctuated by a series of onomatopoeic sound effects such as "GLORK" or "PATWANG-FWEEE", created by Martin himself (or by frequent ghost writer Don Edwing). Martin's wild physical comedy will eventually make him the magazine's main artist.
When Martin first joined Mad , he used a taut and scratched art style, but this developed into a more rounded look and more like a cartoon. Many of his cartoons use the same title (for example, "A Very Pleasant Day at the Beach"), and these titles are becoming more complicated (eg, "One Night at the Central Grand Senator Grand Waldorf Plaza Hotel Plaza Grand Hotel," " One Hot Afternoon Sunny in the Ocean, "or" A Day at the Corners of South Finster Boulevard and Fonebone Street ").
The Martin Association for 31 years with Mad ends with some revenge for the ownership of the original work. Not long after leaving Mad, Martin eventually worked for a Cracked competitor, who, unlike Mad, creators to save their pages. In 1994, Martin left Cracked and published several self-titled publishing editions of his own.
"A Mad Look at..." and "Drama Dambil-Logout"
Sergio AragonÃÆ'Â © s has written and drew features "A Mad Look At..." for 49 years. Each is a series of strips of jokes with a common theme. AragonÃÆ'Â Â © s' Mad cartoon is famous for almost never using word balloons; when they appear at all, they will most often show whatever image is being discussed. AragonÃÆ'Â © s will periodically bend this rule to a store window sign, the lost "Gesundheit", or some other dialogue that is important to the punchline.
AragonÃÆ'® s also provides "Mad Marginals" or "Drawn-out Dramas", which are small images that appear throughout the magazine at the corners, margins or narrow space between panels. AragonÃÆ' Â © debut featured in Mad # 76 (January 1963), and has appeared in every magazine edition since, except for Mad # 111. According to AragonÃÆ'Â © s, his work for the problem was lost in the letter.
Parody of Movie and TV Parody
A common problem will include at least one full parody of a popular movie or television show. The title is changed to make a word game; for example, The Addams Family to The Adnauseum Family. The character names generally change in the same way.
These articles run for several pages, and are presented as a sequential storyline with caricatures and word balloons. The opening page or two splash pages usually consist of players who introduce themselves directly to the reader. In some parodies, writers sometimes try to avoid this convention by presenting characters without such direct exposition. Many parodies end with a sudden appearance of the deus ex machina of the outer character or pop culture figures that are thematically tied to nature for a parodied movie or TV series, or who comment on the theme of satire. For example, Dr. Phil arrives to advise people who are psychologically damaged Desperate Housewives ; in another spoof, the former cast of Sex and the City was hired as a new prostitute for another HBO series, Deadwood .
Parodies often use comedy from the fourth wall, break characters, and reference-meta. In a self-contained storyline, characters can refer to the technical aspects of filmmaking, publicity, hype or box office that surround their projects, their own past roles or real-life situations, and critical cliché analysis. In the last panel of "The $ ound of Money", a 1966 parody of Sound of Music, Julie Andrews sings a parody of the song "Climb Ev'ry Mountain". The rewritten lyrics refers to a manufacturer's decision to create scarcity and maximize box office profits by running movies in only one theater per city with increased ticket prices ("Charge high receipts;/Let people wait;/it will make them think they 're/Seeing something great! "), as well as the decision of Warner Brothers to replace Andrews with Audrey Hepburn in the film adaptation of My Fair Lady . Andrews has had great success as Eliza Doolittle in the original Broadway production, but she's missed for a movie role. In spite of the high slap, Andrews made an Oscar-winning debut at Mary Poppins - released four months before My Fair Lady - and reinforced the big screen success with The Sound of Music . Concluding the crazy parody, Andrews happily sang:
- "With all these advantages,
- Everything will be fine!
- When we are above the "Fair Lady,"
- Ven-geance... will... be... mine! "
Some show business stars have been cited for the effect that the moment when they know they finally "succeed" is when they see themselves so depicted on the pages Mad . Many celebrities parodied by the magazine have submitted photographs printed in the mailing columns Mad ', generally holding copies of the magazines in which they appear, and often, reacting in a funny way. After the magazine depicts the main character of L.A. Laws on the cover of 1987, the actors responded with photos in which the actors mimicked the poses and their caricature placements, with Steven Bochco's creator blackening teeth and taking Alfred E. Neuman's place.
Guns N 'Roses guitarist Slash told Mojo , "Cover magazine that matters most to me maybe when I appear in Mad Magazine , as caricature Alfred E. Neuman (# 330, 1994).It was then that I felt that I had arrived. "Film critic Roger Ebert says that being parodied by Mad is the" highest honor. " In an appearance on The Tonight Show, Michael J. Fox told Johnny Carson that he knew he had made it in the show business "when Mort Drucker pulled my head." Howard Stern often talked about what the magazine meant to him, as in January 2009 when he said, "The highlight of my greatest career is on the cover of Mad magazine." He revisited the topic in October 2013, saying, "It was really the highlight of my success, that I could be on the cover of a MAD magazine, with Alfred E. Neuman sticking my head into a toilet bowl... I'm so happy and happy... I can not believe it. "
Monroe
Monroe is an ongoing storyline about teenage losers full of anxiety. It depicts stories of title characters in schools, dysfunctional homes and endless problems elsewhere. Written by Anthony Barbieri, it was illustrated by Bill Wray from 1997 to 2006. Previous features of black and white were colored in 2005, and hiatus for much of 2006. When returned, it was drawn by Tom Fowler with Barbieri still being a writer. Last appeared in January 2010.
Irregular recurring features
In addition to the above, Mad has returned to certain themes and fields over and over, such as full imaginary magazines, greeting cards, children's songs, Christmas carols, parody songs and other poems (including some versions of " Casey in Bat "), take off comic and others.
Contents
The first page of each issue lists all the articles to be followed, including their "Department" titles, which are played on words. For example, a parody of the pizza chain menu appears under "The Passion of the Crust Department," while the article entitled "William Shakespeare, Sports Commentator" is part of "The Play-By-Play's Thing Department." Long-running features have long-running headers: Spy vs. Spy is filed under "Joke and Dagger Department," Dave Berg's "Lighter Side of..." always runs in "Berg's Eye" View Department, "and many Frank Jacobs articles are under" Frank on a Roll Department. "Don Martin's ridiculous cartoon is only labeled" Don Martin Department, "with further fanfare probably unnecessary.The Dick DeBartolo article is sometimes headed under" Dick DePartment ", while some Duck Edwing articles are labeled as" The Tales of The Duck Side "Dept. Most of the recurring features of other magazines already have their own" Department ".
Each Table of Contents cites an article that does not exist. Examples of this imaginary list include "Santa Claus, Porn Star"; "What if Cap'n Crunch Was Taken Before a Military Court?"; "If Bobby Knight Trains a Special Olympics"; "Only Assistant Deputy Minister of Transportation Might Probably Believe..."; "What if Daffy and Donald Duck Go to Jail?"; and "Quick Answers to Fool Questions during the Belgrade bombing." In one instance, the false title listed, "If Chick Can Travel Time," appears as the original article in the next issue.
Each Table of Contents also includes quotes or aphorisms attributed to Alfred E. Neuman. With a few exceptions, this is the only character who has ever "talked".
Letters and Tomatoes.
The esoteric version of the standard "Letter to the Editor", this magazine section contains correspondence from readers, reader images or craft projects, celebrity photos, references to Mad in other media, and so on. In recent years, all letters are usually answered in a sadistic and insulting way, and always include a pun or a round on the sender's name.
The first "Letters" section (later called "Mad Mumblings") appeared in MAD # 3 (January-February 1953). The first letter to be printed came from Corporal Marine Corporal Eugene F. Shanlin, who said he had "never heard anyone laugh out loud in comic magazines before!" (Shanlin later became a New York City cop before retiring to Florida, died in 2000 at the age of 69.)
There are several recurring sub-departments, including "Make a Dumb Wish Foundation" which promises to make the reader's stupid request a reality (a parody of the Make a Wish Foundation); "Antiques Freakshow with Hans Brickface", where photographs of strange household items of readers are judged by a slightly psychotic Hans; an unreasonable one-sentence observation called "MAD Mumblings", which is not usually repeated online by readers; and the celebrity "Interview Two-Questions" that are basically over before they start, so do not reveal anything.
The magazine asks for photographs of readers from famous people posing with copies of Mad . Once a year, Mad publishes "The Nifty Fifty," a list of 50 famous people they hope to see on their upcoming Celebrity Snaps. A reader who gets one of the fifty photos in the photo gets a free three-year subscription (provided the celebrity touches the issue). Some celebrities send pictures of themselves, usually in response to magazines that have targeted them in previous problems. The magazine was happy to publish a photo of Dan Quayle unwittingly holding the cover of "PROOFREADER WANTED" from Mad # 355, where the magazine's logo appeared as "MAAD." During the photo op in 1992, the then vice president had wrongly "corrected" a primary school student on Quayle Street thinking the word "potato" should be spelled.
The Fundalini Pages
Beginning with the February 2004 edition, Mad has led the problem with the catcher-all the various bits, which are much shorter or smaller than normal Mad articles. They often appear as much as three to six per page. Some of these parts are manufactured at home; the other is freelancer work. All contributors for each month are credited in bulk, as "Friends of Fundalini." For this reason, it is not always clear which contributors are responsible for which items, especially the authors. Beginning with issue number 500 (June 2009), authors and artists (except members of editorial staff) have been given credit for individual contributions. Most Fundalini features are one-shot jokes that never appear again, some have appeared several times, and some have become common features. Among the recurring elements in the Fundalini section are:
Created for Fundalini
- Bitterman, a short comic by Garth Gerhart about a hateful slacker;
- Classifieds; this often deals with absurdity and non sequitur;
- The Cover We Did Not Use, claiming to be the "second choice" for the front cover of the issue;
- The Fast 5, Top 5 list is similar to David Letterman's Top 10 list;
- News Photos, where topical photos are given a word balloon (similar to fumetti, though without the aspect of the genre's narrative storyline);
- Gag panels by cartoonists such as Tom Cheney ("Pull My Cheney!"), or P.C. Vey ("Vey to Go!" (Then called Oy Vey! ).
- The Godfrey report, a small 3x3 box showing three classes of objects and their current cultural status, which are arbitrarily rated "In," "Five Minutes Ago," or "Exit." (eg Stoolies: In, Squealers: Five Minutes Ago, Turncoats: Out);
- Graphic Novel Review, written by Desmond Devlin, who analyzes the collection of fictional comics and graphic novels such as "The Anally Complete Peanuts" or "Tintin in Fallujah";
- Kitchen Sink, long series of spoof titles for topics like "Current Real Time Production Event" or "Star Wars Proposed Sequence Title";
- Monkeys are always Funny, by Evan Dorkin, showing photos of famous news with images of monkeys being Photoshopped (eg attacks on Elian Gonzalez's closet, or Hindenburg explosion);
- The NFL Ref report, written by Kiernan P. Schmitt, which illustrates a topic by using a generic image of the referee's hand signal;
- The Puzzle Nook, the option phrase-in-empty;
- Saddam Sez, who is reusing the same photo of Saddam Hussein speaking at his trial in 2006. A word balloon was added, making random references nothing to do with Hussein or Iraq. Mad March 2007 edition contains a statement that " Due to circumstances beyond our control " features of Saddam Sez will be subject to "unlimited hiatus". Fidel Castro later replaced Saddam with "Castro's Comment";
The Wikipedia parody has appeared twice, first called "Wonkypedia," and then "Wakipedia." Both entries display a variety of unrelated facts, in the style of an inaccurate or damaged Wikipedia page (eg "articles" in Pearl Harbor discussing Mao Tse-Tung's sudden assault and how it caused the Chernobyl bombing). Wonkypedia is now an actual website.
The truncated version of two pre-existing features, * Celebrity Cause of Death Betting Odds "and * Melvin and Jenkins' Guide to..." have been transferred to Fundalini.
Strip Club
A wide variety of short comics drawn by various artists, has appeared approximately every month since its debut in the July 2005 issue. It typically runs three pages, and is a combination of one-shot jokes and recurring features. Among the repeating strip characters is the omnipotent superhero called Fantabulaman; robot hero named Santon; Rob, Evil Robot Traitor; Father O'Flannity, a priest who conducted a celebrity interview in a hot tub; Trigger McBride, a horse cop; anonymous protagonists who use "Machines Walking Through Time"; Jeff, a man whose roommate was unaware of the fact that he was a serial killer despite clear evidence; and Patience Man, a superhero who takes too long to stop crime.
Go Fetch!
Blurring the line between ads and content is Go Fetch !, a list of new media products released 2005-06 such as videogames, DVD releases, music albums and books. Each product list has The Hype and The Snipe , where the good and bad qualities are outlined. Every Go Fetch! also promotes "Must Have", an idiosyncratic (but real) product that Mad's readers should not do, such as cold galvanizing spraying, or jackhammer pneumatics. Go Take it! is a strange cross between the insane mentality crazy and a kind of product rankings commonly associated with Rolling Stone . It is a blatant commercial feature, with some lines thrown in real hope making it even better. Thus, Go Fetch! much criticized by many loyal readers of magazines as betrayal of the original satirical mission magazine. In the year of its existence, Go Fetch! appeared in eight of 12 problems, but the feature has been dead since June 2006.
"The Mad 20"
Since 1998, in every January issue, Mad has commemorated "20 People, Events, and Worst Things" this year. It emphasizes visual motives above all others, parodies things like movie posters, famous paintings, or magazine covers, although one or two more heavy takeoff texts are typically sown into various years. This feature reminds us of the "Spy 100" Spy, "Pink Eye" list, which is intended to catalog "Our Yearly Census of the 100 Most Dangerous, Worrying and Shocking People, Places and Things."
Although "20 People, Events, and the Most Superficial" are numbered 1-20, "ratings" are essentially random. The "20th dumbest" slot of 2001 was given to Mad itself to "slide down the slippery slope of greedy commercialism" ultimately allowing ads on its pages.
Mad have often used esoteric words, including potrzebie, furshlugginer, veeblefetzer, Moxie, ganef, halavah, and axolotl. Many, but not all of these words are from Yiddish or Jewish. Favorite funny names include Melvin, Bitsko, Kaputnik, Cowznofski, and Fonebone. Mad uses the word "ecch" or his cousin "blecch" and "yecch" as an arbitrary expression of the goal so often even The Simpsons then makes a passing reference to practice, showing the cap Mad with invisible parody "Beauty and the Blecch" and "NYPD Blecch".
The word "hoohah" is an early joke, often voiced by an eager character in a comic book edition written by Harvey Kurtzman; the first story in the first edition of Mad entitled "Hoohah!". His Eastern European feelings are perfect for the New York Jewish publication style. The origin of "hoohah" is unknown, though it may be derived from the Hungarian word for "wow", which is h? Ha .
"This is a cracker to slip a boiling roar" is a non-sequitur-ish phrase that found its way into Madness on several occasions in the 1950s; this is a slang English language which means "it's madness bribing the police with counterfeit money." (This phrase comes from a thirties-old detective novel Margery Allingham, The Fashion in Shrouds ).
Some of the magazine's visual elements are strange, often appearing in artwork without context or explanation. Among these are the potato avocado plants named Arthur (reportedly based on the personal marijuana plant of art director John Putnam); domed dustbin; hand pointed six fingers; Mad Zeppelin (which resembles the early non-rigid experimental aircraft); and a long, thin, long-haired creature for several decades before being dubbed "Flip the Bird".
At the end of 1964, Mad was deceived into buying "rights" for an optical illusion already in the public domain, displaying a three-way tuning fork whose appearance rejected physical possibilities. The magazine nicknamed her "Mad poiuyt" after the six most letters on the QWERTY keyboard in reverse order, unaware that the images are already known by the engineers and are usually called blivets.
The crazy cartoonist has regularly withdrawn, fellow contributors and editors, and family members into the most famous, caricature self-caricature article Dave Berg "Roger Kaputnik". Al Jaffee sometimes puts a caricature of himself into his signature. Magazine photo spreads usually feature Crazy staff. Initially, magazines tried to recruit models for photo shoots, but found that many did not want to make an exaggerated face the magazine wanted. While trying to encourage outsiders who are reluctant to demonstrate, magazine staff immediately decide that they are better suited for posing fools than professionals, and are more cost-effective.
In the 1990s and 2000s, the magazine had made periodic references to "monkey juice", generally in the context of absorbing too much of the same. Lots of letter column responses interspersed with breezy chats "Fa fa fa!". The mysterious name "Max Korn" has appeared over the years; the reader's request to clarify Korn's true identity has been greeted with an increasingly bizarre explanation.
Regardless of the amount, the cover price changed Mad has long been followed by the word "Cheap!". Variants sometimes appear; following an increase of 25 to 30 cents, successive issues claimed to be "Cheap" (but X'd out), "Cheap?", and "Cheap Kinda". Increases of up to 40 cents triggered variations in variations almost one year: "Ouch!", "Shame!", "No Laughing Problem", "Relatively Cheap", "Cheap (Considering)", and again "Cheap? Other price increases were billed as "Almost Cheap", "Rising!", And for the cover featured Bonnie and Clyde, "Highway Robbery".
References
External links
- Madcoversite.com tries to group irregular recurring features
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