10-23-2019, 09:50 AM
(10-23-2019, 12:55 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: I saw trouble for MAD magazine when it went to more use of color. I thought the black-and-white version 'busy' enough -- color was simply an overload.
It could also be that over 67 years, tastes change... and MAD Magazine's old writers were not replaced by new ones... and the comic knack disappeared. Figuring that most of the writers and cartoonists were of the Silent Generation, the generation with the greatest knack for self-effacing comedy, the demise of the Silent generation made attempts to continue the comic effect less effective.
One competitor, CRACKED, seemed to have grown up with its youth audience.
When MAD was at its best, I saw it as good material at spoofing the bromides of the commercial mass culture and the emptiness of many political figures and causes.
In times like this, if you cannot laugh -- you get angry or you cry.
No one young enough to be attracted to Mad is interested in a paper magazine. The humor will survive in a different form.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.