Well, 2026 may suck, but the political cartoonists are still in peak form. Enjoy "Quiet, Piggy."

[Miles Archer]

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[AllaN01Bear]

1. mad magazine went out of business beacuse thy said they didnt have enough original

material. should have held on a little while longer.

[Miles Archer]

2. They were always at their sharpest with political satire

Sometimes the movie / TV satires were a little too obvious. But with the political stuff, they always had the knives out.

[mobeau69]

3. Remember their "Snappy Comebacks" they ran occasionally? My fav was

If you’re a guy with long hair and someone asks you if you’re a girl.

Snappy comeback: Fuck you.

[Miles Archer]

4. They took a hit on being "cool" when National Lampoon rose in popularity

National Lampoon was far more explicit, so Mad's reputation became older brother reads NatLamp, kid brother reads Mad.

And that wasn't true at all. just public perception by some.

Mad Magazine...part of EC Comics in the fifties, before the Kefauver "Senate Comic Book Hearings" of 1954, was surrounded by artists and writers who churned out the most horrific of horror comics, to the delight of their readers. And when the Senate put them out of business, THOSE SAME GUYS went on to work for the revamped Mad Magazine.

So I never bought the "NatLamp is better than Mad" rhetoric. They were different, not "better."

[mobeau69]

5. Spot on.