Comments on: Making MAD https://www.thesmartset.com/making-mad/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=making-mad A magazine of arts & culture from Drexel University Tue, 10 Dec 2019 17:31:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Jonathan Schneider https://www.thesmartset.com/making-mad/#comment-17222 Tue, 10 Dec 2019 17:31:42 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=48528#comment-17222 “The true death knell might have been when it decided after 44 years to accept advertising. It’s difficult to poke fun at Madison Ave. when you’re cashing their checks.”

Actually, MAD had become such an icon, CEOs would call to buy the original art and drool over being in MAD. As Michael J. Fox replied to Johnny Carson’s question of when did he know he “made it,” “when Mort Drucker drew me on the cover of MAD Magazine!”

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