While early 1950s anti-comics hysteria eventually resulted in the cancellation of nearly all their books, EC Comics still had one thing going for them: MAD! Written by Harvey Kurtzman and drawn by some of the best comics artists of the age, this parody comic set the template for much that came after it. But can the humor still be appreciated today? What are we to think of some of the attitudes on display toward, say, women or certain ethnic groups? Tim and Kumar discuss.
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Enjoyed the podcast! I heard something that Kumar mentioned very very briefly – an early Mad with a fire hydrant pissing on a dog. Where was this? What story/issue? Alan Moore and Hilary Barta repeated that image in a Splash Brannigan story in Tomorrow Stories 7 – and I didn’t realize it was a Mad reference. See the Splash Brannigan panel here: https://theperiodicfable.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/ts7p2p1.jpg
Thanks for the comment, Joe!
The fire hydrant panel is in the SHADOW parody drawn by Will Elder in issue 4. You can see it here: http://usualgangofidiots.tumblr.com/post/84847885848/the-red-corpse-mad-magazine-4-shadow
It was like trying to find a needle in a haystack trying to find that panel again!
KS