At its peak in 1974, Mad sold 2.1 million copies. It was wildly profitable, even though Bill Gaines (its publisher from the magazine's founding until his death in 1992) refused to accept advertising.

It’s a favorite Christmastime tradition in Northwest Indiana and around the U.S. to tune in for the annual airing of the 1983 holiday classic “A Christmas Story,” based on the mus… ...

Mad magazine had its beginnings in 1947, when publisher Maxwell Gaines’ death in an upstate New York boating accident left his Educational Comics company to his 25-year-old son, William Gaines.

But they completely broke it, so we bought a Christmas tree cat tree instead." "However, it is my cat's 15th, and he is STILL eating the tree to get my attention," said another user.

Mad Magazine's ageless wise guy delighted millions of readers with the sneaky fun of the Fold-In and the snark of "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions." Al Jaffee had retired at age 99.

Will Elder, one of the original Mad magazine cartoonist-illustrators who helped set the irreverent visual style of the legendary satirical publication in the 1950s and later co-created the long ...

We knew there was no longer much reason for Mad magazine to exist. ... As for myself, my father passed away in 2011, two days before Christmas. The shop where he bought my first Mad, ...

Paul Coker Jr., whose character and production designs for the classic Rankin/Bass stop-motion and animated holiday specials and his many years as one of Mad magazine's "Usual Gang Of Idiots ...

A few days before Christmas in 2020, Vogue published this story, dedicated to one of Slim Aarons’s most beloved photos, “Christmas Swim.” It’s a snap of his wife in 1954, sunning herself ...

The Madcap History of Mad Magazine Will Unleash Your Inner Class Clown In a twist befitting its pages, the satirical, anti-establishment publication that delivered laughs and hijinks to ...