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Post by Admin on Jul 5, 2019 20:42:08 GMT
www.comicsreporter.com/A Note Or Two On The MAD Magazine Situation imageWell, the story of MAD Magazine ceasing current publication has broken wide, with the usual caveats and spinning coming to the forefront. One thread offered up is that MAD isn't really ceasing publication because they'll be doing issues with reprints and new covers. I get not wanting to draw attention to the fact that a gigantic cultural icon slipped into a coma on your watch, but I think these things are better handled straight on. There were a ton of structural and cultural factors involved in trying to make successful an iconic publishing property. At the same time, I think we'd be better off considering the possibility that this most recent iteration of the magazine may not have been a surpassingly powerful effort. As far as I can tell, an engine of idea-generation at MAD's level put one cartoon/concept into the public eye its entire recent publication run; that's not a great record. I'm actually more worried about the implications of the Vertigo brand re-sort, because that set of properties at least seemed to be doing the kind show generation that they wanted all of their books to be doing, and despite doing so they still changed things around. We live in interesting times, obviously, but there's interesting and there's depressing and I'm not sure of the ratios here. Not yet. posted 12:45 am PST | Permalink
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Post by Admin on Jul 5, 2019 20:43:21 GMT
www.comicsreporter.com/July 3, 2019 Sources Including Contributors Indicate MAD Is Shutting Down; Recent Senior Editor Let Go Tweets from staff and contributors, at least one e-mailed letter that went out last week to related personnel and one that went out today to contributors, and the departure of the current Senior Editor all seem to indicate that MAD is done. This story has come together in strange fashion, so in this age of spin I wonder after any subsequent permutations. The core seems solid at this hour, though. The version that came with my pair of original sources last week indicate a full shutdown and a working through of inventory to help satisfy subscription obligations. This is a huge story in terms of cultural impact, the direction of modern media, the history of comics and the history of satire. MAD is the modern trunk from which all the branches of modern humorous satire reach towards the sky. It is a top five all-time comic. Its staff and contributor pool -- skilled enough it had its own nickname -- has included a half-dozen of the top 25 all-time American cartoonists, including a few competitors for #1: Kurtzman, Davis and perhaps as dark horses a pair of uniquely exquisite craftsmen: Aragones and Wood. It can be argued that MAD, by challenging the advertising age and its constant lying to people for profit, was the most important comic ever published. That it may owe any future iteration to its value as a money-making brand in other set of strategies is little consolation. I'm also sorry for the gigs lost and jobs departed. It's been a hell of a summer. posted 7:00 pm PST | Permalink
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Post by Admin on Jul 5, 2019 20:45:54 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jul 5, 2019 20:46:39 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jul 5, 2019 20:47:24 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jul 5, 2019 20:48:38 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jul 5, 2019 21:03:52 GMT
icv2.com/articles/news/view/43544/mad-magazine-ending-most-new-material'MAD MAGAZINE' ENDING MOST NEW MATERIAL And Going Off Newsstand Posted by Milton Griepp on July 5, 2019 @ 3:45 am CT  DC Entertainment will cease publishing new material in the monthly issues of Mad Magazine after the release of #10 in September, according to reliable sources. End-of-year specials will continue to carry new material, and DC will also continue to publish Mad books and special collections. Distribution is also being cut back; Mad Magazine will no longer be available through newsstand distribution, but will continue to be sold through the direct market. DC delayed the move of Mad to California with the rest of the company’s operations in 2015, and instead made the move at the beginning of 2018 in conjunction with the hiring of Bill Morrison as the new Executive Editor (see "Bill Morrison Named Executive Editor at ‘Mad Magazine’"). A new numbering series was begun in April of 2018 to mark the magazine’s creation in California (see "’Mad’ To Relaunch in April"). Morrison left the company earlier this year. Mad was launched as a comic book in 1952, converted to magazine format and was published continuously for the following 67 years.
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Post by Admin on Jul 6, 2019 2:17:21 GMT
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