This April will bring the 500th issue of Mad Magazine and, starting with that issue, the publication will be moving from monthly to quarterly circulation.
Editor John Ficarra said in a statement, “The feedback we’ve gotten from readers is that only every third issue of Mad is funny. So we decided to just publish those.”
Quarterly issues will see a slight bump in pages, from 48 to 56. Mad Kids and Mad Classics will, unfortunately, be shut down entirely. This is just conjecture on my part but it may be that Mad uses the extra time between issues to flush out its online presence since, you know, the internet is kind of a big deal nowadays.
New York Times [via Slashdot]
It makes perfect sense; now that George “What Me Worry” Bush is out of office, there’s going to be a lot less material and it’ll have to drop to quarterly. I’m surprised they’re staying in business at all. Probably just keeping it running so they can come back in 2012 when Jeb gets elected.
C’mon, you have to admit that it’s a little scary just how much GW looked like (and acted like) Alfred E. Newman.
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what about us people who subscibed in good
faith to MAD for kids and have only rcvd one
issue since Dec??????
hey im mack and i paid for mad and ive never got it i sent it on april and its july all my friends were going to subscribe but i told them not to so i want to know if im getting them and if u cant i want my money back email me
MACK SIDERA
What a shame, MAD mags have been printed since 1952. All in all, MAD mags, being made quarterly are a shame. but its better than nothing, and yes it does sadden me greatly because I collect them.
Alfred E. Neuman says “Yes, me worry!”