MAD #488 — April 2008

Contents

• Contents Page — replaced by An Important Message to All MAD Readers from Mr. Jingles, Editor in Chief
  1
• Dedication of issue to J. Fred Muggs — cover artist for MAD #38
  1
• Meet the New Staff of MAD

  Sub-Human Resources Dept.

  Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by Tom Richmond
  2–3
• Letters and Tomatoes Dept.
  4, 6, 8
• Ad for Subscription with bonus MAD #43 print offer
  9
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine) summary
• The Monkey-Lini Pages

  Friends of Monkey-lini Notes

  • "Friends of Monkey-lini" list of contributors not originally attached to the articles in this section: Charles Akins, Scott Bricher, Jacob Chabot, Tom Cheney, Dick DeBartolo, Desmond Devlin, Garth Gerhart, Gary Hallgren, Jeff Kruse, Kevin Pope — DETAILS

  • False Ape-Spectations — not-so-fun barrel of monkeys — Art by Jacob Chabot
  • Chuckles & Jo-Jo's Guide to Communication — Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Kevin Pope
  • Other Magazines Already Taken Over by Monkeys — Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by Scott Bricher
  • Pull My Cheney! — careless book-reader (Tom Cheney)
  • Top Weekend Movie Box Office — Art by Charles Akins
  • Bittermonkey — only smoking in bars (Garth Gerhart)
  • Graphic Novel Review — The Opposable Baboonsbury — Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Gary Hallgren
  10–12
• MONKey (TV satire)

  Welcome to the OCD, Bitch! Dept.

  Written by Charlie Kadau / Art by Mort Drucker
  13–15
• A MAD Look at Humans

  Dissing Persons Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  16–18
• MOMA — The Museum of Monkey Art — Winter/Spring Catalogue

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • Inside MAD — 2013
  • Totally Useless MAD — 2013
  • MAD Choice Cuts — Special Collector's Edition 2014
  • Totally Inside MAD — 2016

  • Cover — sculpture by Hermann Mejia
  • "Gorilla with a Pearl Earring" by Banannas Vermeer — Art by Roberto Parada sample
  • "Whistler's Monkey" — Art by Richard Williams
  • "The Screech" by Edvard Munkee — Art by James Warhola
  19–22
• Snappy Answers to Stupid Human Questions

  All Jaffee Dept.

  Al Jaffee
  26–27
• Great Monkeys in American History

  Tall Tails Dept.

  Written by Teresa Burns Parkhurst / Art by Tom Fowler
  28–29
• MonkeyBay

  Don't Let the Bid Bug Bite Dept.

  Written by Scott Maiko

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • Disturbingly Awful MAD — 2013
  30–32
• Ad for MAD Classics #21
  33
• Spy vs. Spy — spider monkeys

  Joke and Banana Dept.

  Peter Kuper

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • Spy vs. Spy — Fight to the Finish — 2013
  34–35
• eHarmonkey (ad parody)

  Teresa Burns Parkhurst
  36
• The Strip Club

  Pen and Stink Dept.

  • Me, Myself and My Prehensile Tail Puppet (John Kovaleski)
  • Pondering the Really Meaningful Stuff... (Rob Harrell)
  • Grooming Gaffes (Emily Flake)
  • Spare the Rod... Spoil the Monkey (Scott Cunningham)
  • The Facts of Life (Jason Yungbluth)
  • Fantabula Monkey (Ted Rall)
  • Just Beneath the Peel (Douglas Paszkiewicz)
  • Harry Plotters (Eric Scott)
  • It Only Hurts When I Go "Ook Ook Oook"! — I'm Ape About Her (Christopher Baldwin)
  37–41
• 10 Things You, As a Concerned Monkey, Can Do to Save the Environment

  Planet Mirth Dept.

  John Caldwell
  42–43
• How to Draw a Monkey

  That Was Easel Dept.

  John Caldwell

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • Inside MAD — 2013
  • MAD Choice Cuts — Special Collector's Edition 2014
  • Totally Inside MAD — 2016
  44
• Bananas Republic (catalog parody)

  Where the Style Things Are Dept.

  Written by Scott Maiko / Art by Leonardo Rodriguez

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • Intensely Dumb MAD — 2013
  45–48
• Fold-In — What's the worst thing that can happen to any monkey?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • The MAD Fold-In Collection 1964–2010 — 2011
  C3