Mikics David
Mikics David - Mad Files The: Writers And Cartoonists On The Magazine That Warped America's Brain! A Library Of America Special Publication - Paperback
Mikics David - Mad Files The: Writers And Cartoonists On The Magazine That Warped America's Brain! A Library Of America Special Publication - Paperback
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Description: A mainstay of countless American childhoods MAD magazine exploded onto the scene in the 1950s and gleefully thumbed its nose at all the postwar pieties. Unfazed by lawsuits the ire of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI and the dull - witted scorn of critics and scolds unwilling to get the joke MAD became the zaniest most subversive satire magazine ever to be sold on America's newsstands anticipating the spirit of underground comix and 'zines and influencing humor writing in movies television and the internet to this day. Edited by David Mikics The MAD Files celebrates the magazine's impact and the legacy of the Usual Gang of Idiots who transformed puerile punchlines and merciless mockery into an art form. 26 essays and comics present a varied perceptive and often very funny account of MAD's significance ranging from the cultural to the aesthetic to the personal. Art Spiegelman reflects on how he 'couldn't learn much about America from my refugee immigrant parents - but I learned all about it from MAD'; Roz Chast remembers how the magazine was 'love at first sight. MAD made fun of stuff that I thought needed to be made fun of It was one of my first inklings that there were other people out there who found the world as ridiculous as I did. David Hajdu and Grady Hendrix zero in on MAD's hilarious movie spoofs; Liel Leibovitz delves into the Jewishness behind the magazine's humor; and Rachel Shteir amplifies the often unsung contributions of MAD's women artists. Several essays are admiring profiles of the individual creators that made MAD what it was: Mort Drucker Harvey Kurtzman Al Jaffee Antonio Prohias and Will Elder. For longtime fans and new readers alike The MAD Files is an indispensable guide to America's greatest satire magazine.
Title: Mad Files The: Writers And Cartoonists On The Magazine That Warped America's Brain! A Library Of America Special Publication
Author(s): Mikics David
Publisher: The Library Of America
Barcode: 9781598537925
Pages: 200 Pages
Publication Date: 9/3/2024
Category: Popular Culture
Description: A mainstay of countless American childhoods MAD magazine exploded onto the scene in the 1950s and gleefully thumbed its nose at all the postwar pieties. Unfazed by lawsuits the ire of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI and the dull - witted scorn of critics and scolds unwilling to get the joke MAD became the zaniest most subversive satire magazine ever to be sold on America's newsstands anticipating the spirit of underground comix and 'zines and influencing humor writing in movies television and the internet to this day. Edited by David Mikics The MAD Files celebrates the magazine's impact and the legacy of the Usual Gang of Idiots who transformed puerile punchlines and merciless mockery into an art form. 26 essays and comics present a varied perceptive and often very funny account of MAD's significance ranging from the cultural to the aesthetic to the personal. Art Spiegelman reflects on how he 'couldn't learn much about America from my refugee immigrant parents - but I learned all about it from MAD'; Roz Chast remembers how the magazine was 'love at first sight. MAD made fun of stuff that I thought needed to be made fun of It was one of my first inklings that there were other people out there who found the world as ridiculous as I did. David Hajdu and Grady Hendrix zero in on MAD's hilarious movie spoofs; Liel Leibovitz delves into the Jewishness behind the magazine's humor; and Rachel Shteir amplifies the often unsung contributions of MAD's women artists. Several essays are admiring profiles of the individual creators that made MAD what it was: Mort Drucker Harvey Kurtzman Al Jaffee Antonio Prohias and Will Elder. For longtime fans and new readers alike The MAD Files is an indispensable guide to America's greatest satire magazine.
Title: Mad Files The: Writers And Cartoonists On The Magazine That Warped America's Brain! A Library Of America Special Publication
Author(s): Mikics David
Publisher: The Library Of America
Barcode: 9781598537925
Pages: 200 Pages
Publication Date: 9/3/2024
Category: Popular Culture
