The Mad World of William M. Gaines

The Mad World of William M. Gaines
Author: Frank Jacobs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1972
Genre: Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN:

Humorous biography of the eccentric founder and publisher of "Mad magazine" by a staff writer.

Good Days and Mad

Good Days and Mad
Author: Dick DeBartolo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 289
Release: 1995
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9781560250913

A writer who has written for every issue of "Mad" tells the inside story of thirty years of America's craziest magazine

Harvey Kurtzman

Harvey Kurtzman
Author: Bill Schelly
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Total Pages: 645
Release: 2015-05-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1606997610

This biography reveals the true story of Mad creator Harvey Kurtzman―the man who revolutionized humor in America; it features new interviews with his colleagues Hugh Hefner, Robert Crumb, and others. Harvey Kurtzman created Mad, and Mad revolutionized humor in America. Kurtzman was the original editor, artist, and sole writer of Mad, one of the greatest publishing successes of the 20th century. But how did Kurtzman invent Mad, and why did he leave it shortly after it burst, nova-like, onto the American scene? For this heavily researched biography, Bill Schelly conducted new interviews with Kurtzman’s colleagues, friends and family, including Hugh Hefner, R. Crumb, Jack Davis, and many others, and examined Kurtzman’s personal archives. The result is the true story of one the 20th century’s greatest humorists: Kurtzman's family life, the details of the FBI's investigation during the McCarthy Era, his legal battles with William M. Gaines (publisher of Mad), are all revealed for the first time. Rich with anecdotes, this book traces Kurtzman’s life from his Brooklyn beginnings to his post-Mad years, when his ceaseless creativity produced more innovations: new magazines, a graphic novel, and Little Annie Fanny inPlayboy.

Completely Mad

Completely Mad
Author: Maria Reidelbach
Publisher: M J F Books
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1997-10-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781567311273

An illustrated history of the most influential and unique humor magazine in post-war America.

Totally MAD

Totally MAD
Author: The Editors Of Mad Magazine
Publisher: Liberty Street
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-10-30
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9781618930309

For the past six decades (that's 60 years-we did the math so you don't have to) MAD Magazine has keenly observed the American landscape and promptly made fun of everything in sight. Unwavering in their commitment to high quality stupidity, MAD's legendary artists and writers, long known as "The Usual Gang of Idiots," have brilliantly satirized politics, celebrities, sports, media, cultural trends, and more. Totally MAD (originally titled The New American Cookbook until cooler heads prevailed) is the ultimate collection of MAD's most idiotic material, including such classics as Spy vs. Spy, The MAD Fold-in, A MAD Look At..., The Lighter Side of, Horrifying Clichés and The Shadow Knows, plus modern MAD classics including The MAD Strip Club and The Fundalini Pages. Whether you grew up with MAD in the 50s, 60s, or 70s, reading it with a flashlight under the covers so your parents wouldn't catch you, or in the 80s, 90s and beyond, reading it while watching the MADtv sketch comedy show or the more recent animated series on the Cartoon Network, this book will bring back fond memories and also provide a great introduction to MAD for new readers. Then again, maybe not. SPECIAL BONUS! Includes "The Soul of MAD," 12 classic cover prints, ten featuring Alfred E. Neuman, MAD's gap-toothed grinning idiot mascot. These beautiful reproductions are suitable for framing or wrapping fish.

The Comic Art Collection Catalog

The Comic Art Collection Catalog
Author: Michigan State University. Libraries. Special Collections Division
Publisher: Greenwood
Total Pages: 1458
Release: 1993
Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
ISBN:

This is the most comprehensive dictionary available on comic art produced around the world. The catalog provides detailed information about more than 60,000 cataloged books, magazines, scrapbooks, fanzines, comic books, and other materials in the Michigan State University Libraries, America's premiere library comics collection. The catalog lists both comics and works about comics. Each book or serial is listed by title, with entries as appropriate under author, subject, and series. Besides the traditional books and magazines, significant collections of microfilm, sound recordings, vertical files, and realia (mainly T-shirts) are included. Comics and related materials are grouped by nationality (e.g., French comics) and genre (e.g., funny animal comics). Several times larger than any previously published bibliography, list, or catalog on the comic arts, this unique international dictionary catalog is indispensible for all scholars and students of comics and the broad field of popular culture.

Collectibly Mad

Collectibly Mad
Author: Grant Geissman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1995
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

Inside Mad

Inside Mad
Author: Harvey Kurtzman
Publisher: ipicturebooks
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2002-04-01
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9781596878082

More anniversary reprints.

Canadiana

Canadiana
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 952
Release: 1965
Genre: Canada
ISBN: