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.

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.

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 ...

NEW YORK — Al Jaffee, Mad magazine's award-winning cartoonist and ageless wise guy who delighted millions of kids with the sneaky fun of the Fold-In and the snark of "Snappy Answers to Stupid ...

Mad magazine’s oldest active artist still spoofs what makes us human. Sergio Aragonés has drawn for the publication since he arrived in New York from Mexico 60 years ago. October 2, 2022.

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 ...