What, Me Worry? MAD Magazine Going Quarterly 132
theodp writes "MAD Magazine is about to put out its 500th issue, but starting with its April publication, the mag is cutting down to only four issues per year. The feedback we've gotten from readers,' quipped Editor John Ficarra, 'is that only every third issue of MAD is funny, so we've decided to just publish those.' MAD Kids and MAD Classics are ceasing publication entirely. Keep up the what-me-worry game face, Alfred!"
old fashioned, old schmasioned (Score:1, Interesting)
What do you mean? Is the world running out of 8 year olds?
Going digital might help, but the target audience is still there.
My favorite part (Score:5, Interesting)
One of the things I always enjoyed from MAD was the fold-in images (they have a name, but that escapes me right now).
I found this overview - very interesting: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/03/28/arts/20080330_FOLD_IN_FEATURE.html [nytimes.com]
This sucks.. I hope they make the mag 200+ pages (Score:1, Interesting)
I have been a mad subscriber for about 20 years now, and i love the mad. this really sucks. I hope they at least expand the issues to 200+ pages with extra content to make up for the extra few months of missing out. I wonder if dedicated mad subscribers will cancle their subscriptions because of this drastic change? anyhow I am going to keep mine until I determine this new format is the right direction to take the company.
Lets hope mad exceeds our lame expectations and continues their tradition far into the 21st century..
KAPUTNICK
evolve or die! (Score:3, Interesting)
Something curious is that Manga Magazines like Shonen Jump do not appear to be lowering their sales.
Re:I stopped reading it (Score:5, Interesting)
Why'd you stop reading it when he died, rather than when he stopped making comics for Mad? Wouldn't that have made a lot more sense? I mean, there was 13 years in that period that you read Mad that he didn't contribute a single thing.
Re:Magazines are dying as a format. (Score:3, Interesting)
I used to be a subscriber. Not for a few years now. The quality of their writing has gone way downhill, even back when Gaines was still alive. Without him it's gone straight down the drain. When the moved the magazine to color and started accepting advertisers it just seemed to lose its soul.
Re:Magazines are dying as a format. (Score:3, Interesting)
What the fuck.
This is the first I hear of EGM closing. A general letter out to the subscribers would have really been appreciated. I had like a year left on my subscription. ):<
Re:Magazines are dying as a format. (Score:5, Interesting)
I was "diagnosed" with irritable bowel in '91. Basically the doctor listened to the symptoms and proclaimed that was it. I got scoped a little while later but he didn't see anything to prove him wrong.
So while it has gotten worse every year there was nothing that could really be done about it. The next family doctor I had just reiterated the first and said that there were no real effective treatments, just live with it and try to avoid triggers.
He retired and I have a new doctor now. Oddly enough, I started dating a nurse and she wrote down a whole battery of tests (that I was never given) and told me to take that to the new doctor. I did. Turns out it's not IBS after all. Now I'm going through more tests to find out why my white blood cell count is high, and B12 is low.
How many doctors have you seen regarding the diagnosis? Out of all the tests I was given, I only had to pay $60 for one (Canada), but if you're in the US I'm thinking it would be about 3 grand for all of em. Parasites, white blood cells, full blood workup, the whole bit.
IBS is the diagnosis they give when they don't want to work for a real cause.