Features, Links and the Uncategorizable
Old and Current Pages That May Be Worth Your Time
- I've received very nice written words from people over the decades.
- The Sergio Aragones Drawn Out Dramas List Project
- A number of visitor questions wound up on this oddball page.
- Sam Viviano and Doug Gilford visit Al Jaffee — June 15, 2022
- A casual visit with MAD writer Frank Jacobs.
- Some commentary about the Jimi Hendrix picture going around.
- A 2007 interview with yours truly.
- All regular issue MAD cover thumbnails.
- A MAD history lesson.
- 20 questions to help you learn some of the MAD basics.
- What's your favorite cover?
- Add your own MAD-like movie titles.
- 67 reasons I waste time collecting MAD.
- Spice up your MAD covers the Bradford way!
- Read an article on MAD's 50th birthday.
- Kelly Freas' 30 regular issue MAD covers.
- The Don Martin Sound Effects Dictionary.
- Christie's auction results for obscure Alfred album cover.
- Horrifying Coincidence? MAD Foreshadows 9-11-2001
- A ‘Peanut’ for your thoughts; Charles Schulz and MAD.
- The Beatles and MAD.
- A Spy vs. Spy motorcycle gas tank paint job.
- Absolutely MAD DVD-ROM and Totally MAD CDs.
- Why we like More Trash From MAD #1.
- #73521 Off-the-Wall Use For a MAD Magazine Cover
- Doug works out your psychological problems.
- Where did Judge Crater show up in MAD?
- Al Feldstein interview!
- Artistic junk you've sent me.
- Star Blecch! in color
- Who's MAD's Maddest Fan?
- Alfred look-a-likes.
- A MAD pricing history
- MAD tattoos.
- A nice CNN article on Al Jaffee and other MAD guys.
- A sad funeral?
- MAD advertising satires.
- Christmas carols and Night Before renditions.
- Ed Norris's 71 The MAD Panic Issues
- Ron Labbe's 6 MAD Freaks U.S.A. Issues (with a letter from 15-year-old me!)
- All the Idiots of the Issues UGOI factoids, FAQs, and interviews featured in MAD XL.
- March MADness 2019
- The Alfred Quote Challenge!
- A book I should get serious about doing one of these days.
- Mort Drucker's 90th Birthday Wishes
- Al Jaffee's 100th Birthday Wishes
- Al Jaffee's Bill Gaines Fold-In Tribute from Entertainment Weekly — June 19, 1992
- An Al Jaffee Studio Photo Archive
- The Fifty Year Club
- The Usual Gang of Idiots visit Tahiti, 1974
- A note to the New York staff
A Few Links!
You really should check out Dick Hanchette's MAD Site. Dick put together an excellent resource for collectors interested in all things MAD. Dick was also the reason you looked at The MAD Cover Site for over a decade. He gave it a very comfortable home from July 1998 to the end of 2009. Dick passed away July 25, 2010.
Dick also put together sections on the following:
Valuable resources all!
Me with former MAD editor Al Feldstein at Eastern Michigan University, 2008-1-23. We were attending John E. Hett's Alfred, We Hardly Knew Thee exhibition and lecture.
A temporary photo-slideshow page is here. A more permanent page on this site is in the works some time in 2037 (when John has nothing better to do).
“In 1974, when I was 15, I was fortunate to spend the afternoon visiting the MAD Magazine offices on MADison Ave. Along with my 2 brothers and 2 cousins, I had been a longtime (almost obsessive) MAD lover, and fantasized about someday joining the ranks of ‘The Usual Gang of Idiots’ as one of their contributing artists. I had also amassed a large collection of EC comics.”
— Read more at Drew Friedman's blog!
madmumblings.com, purportedly responsible for “Extending MAD Magazine's presence on the World Wide Web,” was the go-to place for communication, forum-style, for MAD fans before Facebook and other social media channels took over. The link has been long dead but a little bit of it exists on The Way Back Machine. Link goes to a long thread I started back in 2010 to help me sort out all the contributors and their contributions.
This post in the highly informative Open Culture site sends a lot of people my way after they've done a Google search for MAD Magazine. Poking around the endless archive, I feel smarter after every visit.
The author in this post mainly gives love to The Don Martin Dictionary on this site, but also says it's OK to have older approaches to web design, especially in MadCoverSite's case.
Dear Doug,
About 16 years ago I bought a house and really wanted to make my office something unique. I decided to laser copy some of my favorite MAD covers and use them as wallpaper. To this day I've not grown tired of looking at them, mainly because I have no business and only use my office to walk through to get to my bar out back.
Jamie
Jamie,
Very impressive. Looks like it took a lot of work. I put all the photos you sent in a big, long strip here.
Thanks for sharing your room.
Doug
Joyce has linked to my site for eons and I never returned the favor. Forgive me Joyce!
Mike from magazineart.org has a wealth of information on vintage magazine cover and advertising art from the golden age of American illustration. He sent me this:
“Have you looked at our section of Humor magazines lately? People need to know where MAD came from; you should put in a direct link somewhere in your discussion, say to LIFE, the Humor Magazine currently at 457 issues, for example.”
Man, what a history lesson. He and his volunteers are as MAD as me, doing this stuff because they like to.
This incredibly detailed site features MAD's Ferris Bueller's Day Off parody.
