MAD Files, The: Writers and Cartoonists on the Magazine that Warped America's Brain!
A Library of America Special Publication
$36.01
- Paperback
221 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2024
Summary
Celebrate America’s zaniest and most subversive magazine in 26 essays and comix from all-star contributors, including Roz Chast, Jonathan Lethem, and Grady Hendrix.
Before SNL and the wise-guy sarcasm of Letterman and Colbert, before The Simpsons and online memes, there was … MAD.
A mainstay of countless American childhoods, MAD magazine exploded onto the scene in the 1950s and gleefully thumbed its nose at all the postwar pieties. MAD
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598537925 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 159853792X |
| Author: | David Mikics |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 221 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 215mm x 171mm |
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Critics Review
“Vibrant reflections on Mad magazine’s legacy from an impressive roster of fans and former contributors… . Selections from former contributors brim with behind-the-scenes hijinks … and fond appreciations from the likes of Roz Chast and R. Crumb attest to the magazine’s widespread influence. It adds up to a surprisingly multifaceted look at a beloved magazine.” —Publishers Weekly
About The Author
David Mikics
DAVID MIKICS, editor, is the author, most recently, of Stanley Kubrick- American Filmmaker and Bellow’s People- How Saul Bellow Made Life into Art, and editor of The Annotated Emerson. He is the editor for Library of America of Harold Bloom’s The American Canon- Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon. His writing has appeared in Tablet, The Nation, and The New York Times.
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