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4711445The MAD Files: Writers and Cartoonists on the Magazine that Warped Americas Brain!https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-mad-files--writers-and-cartoonists-on-the-magazine-that-warped-americas-brain-9781598537970/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4197068/image.jpg?v=638528996439800000https://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4193812/image.jpg?v=638446484720330000306425MXNLibrary of AmericaInStock/Ebooks/<p>Celebrate Americas zaniest and most subversive magazine in 26 essays and comix from all-star contributors, including Roz Chast, Jonathan Lethem, and Grady Hendrix.</p><p>Before?<em>SNL</em> and the wise-guy sarcasm of Letterman and Colbert, before?<em>The?Simpsons</em> and online memes, there was . . . ?<em>MAD</em>.</p><p>A mainstay of countless American childhoods, <em>MAD</em> magazine exploded onto the scene in the 1950s and gleefully thumbed its nose at all the postwar pieties. <em>MAD</em> became the zaniest, most subversive satire magazine ever to be sold on Americas newsstands, anticipating the spirit of underground comix and zines and influencing humor writing in movies, television, and the internet to this day.</p><p>Edited by David Mikics, <em><strong>The MAD Files</strong></em> celebrates the magazines impact and the legacy of the Usual Gang of Idiots who transformed puerile punchlines and merciless mockery into an art form. 26 essays and comics present a varied, perceptive, and often very funny account of <em>MAD</em>s significance, ranging from the cultural to the aesthetic to the personal.</p><ul><li><p><strong>Art Spiegelman</strong> reflects on how he couldnt learn much about America from my refugee immigrant parentsbut I learned all about it from <em>MAD</em></p></li><li><p><strong>Roz Chast</strong> remembers how the magazine was love at first sight. . . . It was one of my first inklings that there were other people out there who found the world as ridiculous as I did.</p></li><li><p><strong>David Hajdu</strong> and <strong>Grady Hendrix</strong> zero in on <em>MAD</em>s hilarious movie spoofs</p></li><li><p><strong>Liel Leibovitz</strong> delves into the Jewishness behind the magazines humor</p></li><li><p>and <strong>Rachel Shteir</strong> amplifies the often unsung contributions of <em>MAD</em>s women artists.</p></li></ul><p>Several essays are admiring profiles of the individual creators that made <em>MAD</em> what it was: Mort Drucker, Harvey Kurtzman, Al Jaffee, Antonio Prohias, and Will Elder. For longtime fans and new readers alike, <em><strong>The MAD Files</strong></em> is an indispensable guide to Americas greatest satire magazine.</p>...4438556The MAD Files: Writers and Cartoonists on the Magazine that Warped Americas Brain!306425https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-mad-files--writers-and-cartoonists-on-the-magazine-that-warped-americas-brain-9781598537970/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4197068/image.jpg?v=638528996439800000https://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4193812/image.jpg?v=638446484720330000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20249781598537970_W3siaWQiOiI3NDM2YmM3ZC1lZDBjLTQyOTUtYWU5MC1mZWZhNGE0ZjBiODAiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjQyNSwiZGlzY291bnQiOjExOSwic2VsbGluZ1ByaWNlIjozMDYsImluY2x1ZGVzVGF4Ijp0cnVlLCJwcmljZVR5cGUiOiJXaG9sZXNhbGUiLCJjdXJyZW5jeSI6Ik1YTiIsImZyb20iOiIyMDI1LTA3LTAxVDAwOjAwOjAwWiIsInJlZ2lvbiI6Ik1YIiwiaXNQcmVvcmRlciI6ZmFsc2V9XQ==9781598537970_<p>Celebrate Americas zaniest and most subversive magazine in 26 essays and comix from all-star contributors, including Roz Chast, Jonathan Lethem, and Grady Hendrix.</p><p>Before?<em>SNL</em> and the wise-guy sarcasm of Letterman and Colbert, before?<em>The?Simpsons</em> and online memes, there was . . . ?<em>MAD</em>.</p><p>A mainstay of countless American childhoods, <em>MAD</em> magazine exploded onto the scene in the 1950s and gleefully thumbed its nose at all the postwar pieties. <em>MAD</em> became the zaniest, most subversive satire magazine ever to be sold on Americas newsstands, anticipating the spirit of underground comix and zines and influencing humor writing in movies, television, and the internet to this day.</p><p>Edited by David Mikics, <em><strong>The MAD Files</strong></em> celebrates the magazines impact and the legacy of the Usual Gang of Idiots who transformed puerile punchlines and merciless mockery into an art form. 26 essays and comics present a varied, perceptive, and often very funny account of <em>MAD</em>s significance, ranging from the cultural to the aesthetic to the personal.</p><ul><li><p><strong>Art Spiegelman</strong> reflects on how he couldnt learn much about America from my refugee immigrant parentsbut I learned all about it from <em>MAD</em></p></li><li><p><strong>Roz Chast</strong> remembers how the magazine was love at first sight. . . . It was one of my first inklings that there were other people out there who found the world as ridiculous as I did.</p></li><li><p><strong>David Hajdu</strong> and <strong>Grady Hendrix</strong> zero in on <em>MAD</em>s hilarious movie spoofs</p></li><li><p><strong>Liel Leibovitz</strong> delves into the Jewishness behind the magazines humor</p></li><li><p>and <strong>Rachel Shteir</strong> amplifies the often unsung contributions of <em>MAD</em>s women artists.</p></li></ul><p>Several essays are admiring profiles of the individual creators that made <em>MAD</em> what it was: Mort Drucker, Harvey Kurtzman, Al Jaffee, Antonio Prohias, and Will Elder. For longtime fans and new readers alike, <em><strong>The MAD Files</strong></em> is an indispensable guide to Americas greatest satire magazine.</p>...9781598537970_Library of Americalibro_electonico_9781598537970_9781598537970InglésMéxico2024-09-03T00:00:00+00:00https://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/randomhousewh-epub-cf80c0d3-a5cc-4b3d-b91b-c589dcdfd1b6.epub2024-09-03T00:00:00+00:00Library of America