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Miles Archer

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

Reply to mobeau69 (Reply #3)

Mon Apr 13, 2026, 04:50 PM

Yesterday

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."

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Well, 2026 may suck, but the political cartoonists are still in peak form. Enjoy "Quiet, Piggy." [View all] Miles Archer Yesterday OP

mad magazine went out of business beacuse thy said they didnt have enough original AllaN01Bear Yesterday #1

They were always at their sharpest with political satire Miles Archer Yesterday #2

Remember their "Snappy Comebacks" they ran occasionally? My fav was mobeau69 Yesterday #3

They took a hit on being "cool" when National Lampoon rose in popularity Miles Archer Yesterday #4

Spot on. mobeau69 Yesterday #5