The end of an age.

[Svengoolie 3]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/mad-magazine-to-effectively-shutter-after-67-years/ar-AADP8Bo

 

[FatFreddysCat]

It's a bummer, but honestly I'm surprised the mag has lasted this long. It hasn't been the same since William Gaines passed and the mag became more "corporate" (slick paper, color, actual paid advertisements!)

I bought my first issue of MAD off the newsstand in 1978 (Close Encounters of the Third Kind was the cover parody). I was eight years old. I immediately fell in love with the artwork and inspired lunacy of "the usual gang of idiots," especially Don Martin, Jack Davis and Sergio Aragones.

I read it religiously till I was in my teens and it definitely helped shape my cynical/sarcastic sense of humor.

[RCMerchant]

I can't remember not reading MAD as a kid. 

[Archivist]

Such a shame. As a kid, a lot of the satire was lost on me because I wasn't old enough to watch the movies themselves, like Scarface, Apocalypse Now or Jaws, but I did enjoy the comics like Spy vs Spy. Still have a few MAD magazines lying around, will have to dig them out again.