Inside MAD: The "Usual Gang of Idiots" Pick Their Favorite MAD Spoofs
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Go Inside MAD! It has long been assumed that anyone who wasted their formative years reading MAD must have wound up as a complete failure in life. But as it turns out, some readers actually went on to be...successful! For the first time ever, MAD asked some of these successful readers to share what reading (and appearing in) MAD meant to them. What they have to say may surprise you! Featuring essays with nouns, verbs, and punctuation by: Roseanne Barr Ken Burns Dane Cook Paul Feig Whoopi Goldberg Harry Hamlin Tony Hawk Ice-T Penn Jillette George Lopez David Lynch Todd McFarlane Jeff Probst John Slattery John Stamos Pendleton Ward Matthew Weiner But wait-there's more! (Regrettably.) MAD asked some of the aforementioned "complete failures in life" (MAD's editors, writers and artists to share their all-time favorite MAD articles. What they have to say will definitely disappoint you! Featuring the moronic mumblings of: Sergio Aragones Tom Bunk Tim Carvell Paul Coker Jack Davis Dick DeBartolo Desmond Devlin Mort Drucker Mark Fredrickson Drew Friedman Frank Jacobs Al Jaffee Peter Kuper Tom Richmond And many more! Plus, inside: a never-before-reprinted Alfred E. Neuman pop art poster! And, an all new fold-out poster: a specially commissioned look at the legendary MAD offices by Sergio Aragones!
| Dimensions | 9.5 x 1 x 12.5 inches |
| Isbn 10 | 1618930893 |
| Isbn 13 | 978-1618930897 |
| Item Weight | 3.39 pounds |
| Language | English |
| Part Of Mad Magazine | MAD Magazine |
| Print Length | 256 pages |
| Publication Date | October 29, 2013 |
| Publisher | TI Inc. Books |
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Really funny read
This book is perfect for any mad magazine fan
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Great stuff from Mad's best years.
Absolutely a top quality book filled with some great Mad moments. I didn't particularly care about the celebrity essays (though Penn Jillette had a good one) but the reprinting of these cartoons is worth the price. The book is oversized, which brings everything to about the size it was in the original magazines. There's also a giant fold-out in the middle with a poster of Alfred on one side and a scenario of the Mad offices by Sergio Aragones on the other. Unlike the recent Mad reprint books, this one dips more into the older Mad stuff of the 60's through the 90's (which I consider the best years for Mad). That means the book will actually be funny to adults rather than the way it currently caters to 12 year olds.It's a little pricey, but for a hardcover collection of some of the better spoofs and "articles" from Mad, it's a collector's dream. I wish it was about twice as thick, or that they'd come out with a volume 2 soon. This is the stuff they should be reprinting in the collections now.
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Excellent book
I don't buy most of the MAD anthologies because there are far too many of them recycling old materials. But I bought this one for the fresh material of MAD's best contributors sharing their thoughts about MAD and picking their favorite work. Many of these artists and writers worked for Bill Gaines for several decades and had a huge quantity of material to choose from. Who would have guessed that Mort Drucker's favorite story, after 50 years, was Patton? And this book wisely reprints the full version of the choices, so we are able to appreciate what the artist or writer is describing. This was an excellent book, shedding behind the scenes insight into some of MAD's best. If you believe, like I do, that MAD was an important cultural phenomenon, you'll enjoy this book.
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Absolutely Beautiful****MAD FANS WILL ADORE THIS****
Get this copy of Mad material, so beautifully crafted, and bound in a hard cover with embossed cover art that all Mad collectors will love.Many comedians have contributed their thoughts throughout this volume.Judd Apatow, and many others have contributed to this book.It has a great structure and mix of articles from all the gang at Mad Magazine.This is one of my favourite Mad Big Books!Get it today!
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What fun!
Got this as a present for my brother, who grew up reading MAD in the 60s. Wanted to keep it for myself, gave it to him, anyway. I like the way it's organized by genre, not chronologically. Funny how politics changes, but stays the same!
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Great collection
I grew up on MAD magazine, and I love this collection. The book is bigger (and heavier!) than I expected. Very nice short essays alongside the wonderful pieces from the magazine. It's been so many years since I regularly read MAD that most of the pieces are new to me.
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Very beautiful book
The quality is incredible. Absolutely stunning book
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Just as good as the first one I read! Nice to know I still appreciate adolescent humor!
Just as good as the first one I read! Nice to know I still appreciate adolescent humor! Great job, as always!
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So funny!
Worth the price (cheap)! Really good collection.
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Great fun
Great fun for a lifetime fan. All the best contributors are showcased.Only problem is that it doesn't view well on the Kindle reader. On the iPad, in colour and with the bigger screen it's much easier to read. Still, it's a great buy.
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Inside Mad
A must have for Mad fans, but I never know what to write here to get the words which they tell us.
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Love It..!!
received my copy today...absolutely love it :)
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Fantastic book
Excellent service and great book
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