No.1066032
https://archive.fo/pNR0u
>MAD Magazine will cease publication later this year, according to reports. Blogger Jedidiah Leland reportedly discovered the news after a MAD editor confessed to the magazine's doom in a Facebook group, and shortly thereafter, cartoonist Ruben Bolling seemed to confirm the report on Twitter. Of course, Bolling is not a MAD cartoonist (although he did have work published in it in 2005), so he may have been simply responding to the growing volume of responses to the Leland report.
>Per the report, "I just heard from a friend of mine who is in a Facebook group with MAD writer Stan Stinberg that, after the next two issues, MAD will no longer be publishing original material. Instead, it’ll publish reprinted material until it’s subscription responsibilities are fulfilled and then the magazine will cease publication."
>We cannot find the Facebook post in question, or even any account in the name of Stan Stinberg, on Facebook at present. Nevertheless, two separate sources close to the situation have confirmed for ComicBook.com that the report is, at least in substance, true. Later, MAD contributor David DeGrand confirmed the news on Twitter.
Warner didn't even wait until Bill Gaines' body was cold before taking over the magazine, and it only took them twenty seven years to run the whole thing into the ground.
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No.1066035
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No.1066040
>>1066032
Any reason of why?
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No.1066043
>>1066040
Death of the comic industry, maybe?
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No.1066044
>>1066032
Are you going to keep clogging up the catalog with news stories?
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No.1066045
>>1066040
Remember all that shit where they told you reading is the coolest in your childhood? Well, it's actually a much slower way to consume media and it's only better if you're comparing the very best written material available. Publishers have known print was going to die out for decades.
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No.1066051
Honestly, when Trump said that guy looked like their mascot, I was surprised they still existed.
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No.1066070
>>1066045
>Remember all that shit where they told you reading is the coolest in your childhood? Well, it's actually a much slower way to consume media and it's only better if you're comparing the very best written material available. Publishers have known print was going to die out for decades.
This post explains a lot about the average mouth-breather on this board, this website, and the Internet as a whole.
>Remember all that shit where they told you reading is the coolest in your childhood?
No. They told us reading was "cool", but not that it would become "uncool" as we aged.
>Well, it's actually a much slower way to consume media
Only if you're slow in the head. I can burn through manga chapters way faster than anime, because I don't have to wait for the animation to move from A to B, or for the voice actors/subtitles to finish. Plus, with reading, it's easier to stop and really process what you just read; a profound argument, for example.
>it's only better if you're comparing the very best written material available
How is it better? Elaborate.
>Publishers have known print was going to die out for decades.
Only sensible thing you wrote. So it was with every imperium in recorded history, so it is now. For the profligate masses, words will never beat images, because you don't have to learn how to look at an image.
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No.1066071
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No.1066077
Still have all of mine. Well, my dad's, but he's dead, and he gave them to me so I could learn english many, many years ago. I had some fun. I liked spy vs. spy, and the italian drawing the little stuff inbetween the frames. Oh, and the guy with the crazy figures. The issues must be some 20-40 years old, but none past 2000. I should re-read them.
Blogpost over.
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No.1066085
MAD has been in decline ever since Gaines died. Warner basically forced MAD to become a conventional magazine. They made them move into the DC offices, made them adopt a more conventional publishing schedule, made them run advertisements, made them start printing in color etc. MAD subsequently lost it's edge as it became dependent on the very institutions it sought to lampoon.
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No.1066087
>>1066070
>No. They told us reading was "cool", but not that it would become "uncool" as we aged.
Speaking of reading, the "in your childhood" part referred to when they told you it, not that they specified during childhood.
>I can burn through manga chapters way faster than anime
Not a great example since most manga are still heavier on visuals than dialogue. Go pick almost any novel with a movie adaptation and see which kills a larger portion of your day.
>How is it better?
Like you said, written material is better for thinking about in depth such as when you read a profound argument. A lot of adaptations remove or water-down symbolism and narration for not being obvious enough. However, most contemporary writers have nothing insightful to say and little skill at saying it, probably in part from publishers applying politics to their selection process.
I didn't mean to imply reading is inherently bad, but a bad movie or show usually manages to be more entertaining than a bad book or magazine. I'm guessing MAD couldn't safely ridicule authority under Obama like they'd done previously, and when Trump came in they were drowned out by everyone ridiculing Trump.
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No.1066088
>>1066087
>I'm guessing MAD couldn't safely ridicule authority under Obama like they'd done previously
Please see
>>1066085
Bill Gaines sold MAD in the sixties for tax reasons, but maintained complete control over the magazine. He spent the next 30 years acting as a buffer between the magazine and it's corporate owners.
The moment he died corporate seized control and ruined it.
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No.1066091
>>1066087
>>1066085
>>1066088
I forgot to mention that Bill Gaines died in 1992.
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No.1066097
A MAD Look At, Spy vs. Spy, and MAD fold ins were always fairly charming.
Rest in pepperoni, though we mourn thee we will not worry.
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No.1066100
>>1066044
Mmmm I wonder why there isn’t a thread to fill all the junk in one place and that would not clog the catalog…. I really wonder why there isn’t such a thing. Well I guess it’s time to open another thread that will be resolved in a single line or less
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No.1066298
>>1066032
>MAD Magazine to Cease Publication of Original Material After 70 Years
ftfy
Fixed link:
http://archive.fo/PK3le
Their follow-up:
>MAD magazine will not be completely closing down, as previously reported – although most of its new content will cease, and availability for the iconic humor magazine will be reduced. Earlier tonight, the news broke that MAD was set to cease publication after two more issues of new content, with the magazine using archival content to fulfill its obligation to existing subscribers. This is a little true, and a little not, and ComicBook.com has heard from a source with knowledge of the situation who clarified what is going on.
>MAD will be leaving the newsstand after issue #9, which will land on newsstands in early August with all-new content. MAD #10 will also contain new content, but will be available only via direct market comic book retailers and subscriptions. Rather than closing up shop, the plan at present is to continue publishing issues that will feature reprinted classic MAD pieces, wrapped with new covers art. Further, MAD will continue to publish its end of year specials, as well as books and special collections, capitalizing on the value of the MAD brand in spite of the loss of new content in the magazine.
http://archive.li/4Z1lI
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No.1066306
>>1066298
That's the same thing. Warner is killing MAD magazine so they can use it's corpse to make money.
It's the publishing equivalent of organ harvesting, and DC and Marvel live in mortal dread of it someday happening to them.
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No.1066308
>>1066306
Marvel & DC are already just IP farms for cartoons, shows, & movies. I'd prefer if the comics were just ceased completely with older issues reprinted. Fuck all the new shit that's killed the industry.
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No.1066315
>>1066032
No big loss considering its been shit for over 17 years with only one or two good ones since its decline. But its a sorry state for its legacy. Much like the Simpsons. No one will remember how good it was, only for how shit it was and a one off gag on the Simpsons.
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No.1066316
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No.1066582
any good spy vs spy dump?
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No.1066622
Nothing of value was lost, tbh.
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No.1066624
I recall those issue's selling for $20 which totally wasn't worth it with how short it was, actually the Spy vs Spy books cost the exact same, how did they ever plan on making money by selling mass produced items that also aren't large enough for $20 each?!
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No.1066630
>>1066624
Wow, 20-25$ is the price for a independent comic without shipping. At the end they only bashed Trump…
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