Comments on: Sincerest Form of Parody: the lost ecosystem of MAD-inspired gross-out comics

By: chroma

chroma — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 02:25:00 +0000

Looks like Elder got some help from Basil Wolverton.

By: Feargus Stewart

Feargus Stewart — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:41:00 +0000

fixed

By: Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:38:00 +0000

Whoops, you’re right — I thought you meant the first image after the jump. Try now?

By: Charles H.

Charles H. — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:27:00 +0000

Cory’s write-up is a bit odd in that regards. His listing is of people who contributed to the knock-off comics included in this volume, of which Drucker is not one of them, not all of whom necessarily contributed to Mad. (Kirby, for instance, is represented in the Charlton-produced imitations — ~~Unsane, maybe?~~ Edit: From Here to Insanity — but I’m pretty certain that he never produced anything for Mad proper.)

By: Feargus Stewart

Feargus Stewart — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:49:00 +0000

I’ve refreshed and downloaded etc all I can. still no go. It’s not a big deal; it is almost entirely …not legible but… the equivalent of legible with pictures.

By: Feargus Stewart

Feargus Stewart — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:48:00 +0000

perfect response.

By: eynstyn

eynstyn — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:42:00 +0000

You forgot to Mention Mort Drucker in your list of great artist contributors. I sure wish I still had the collection of Mad Magazines back in 1969.

By: Charles H.

Charles H. — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:40:00 +0000

Archie’s Mad House was late-’50s and early-’60s though, which meant that it was contemporary with Mad Magazine, not Mad the comic. Sincerest Form of Parody collects only those knock-off comics that were published during the existence of the original comicbook Mad [late-'52 to mid-'55], hence ones like Archie’s Mad House, Cracked, and Crazy aren’t included. Panic is represented with two stories: the excerpted “The Lady or the Tiger?”, above, and the classic Spillane send-up “My Gun is the Jury!”.

(Today may have been the official publication date, but it’s actually been on sale for about 2 weeks now. It’s a nice work, collecting a lot of rarely seen stories, though they’re of varying quality. e.g.: The Iger Studio produced ones are about par for their post-Eisner output, which is to say pretty bad. My main complaint is that the images accompanying the essay in the back always seem to be placed one or two pages later than they should be.)

By: retepslluerb

retepslluerb — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:31:00 +0000

convert: Corrupt JPEG data: bad Huffman code `PARODY_COVER.jpg’.
convert: Corrupt JPEG data: 114158 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9 `PARODY_COVER.jpg’.

By: retepslluerb

retepslluerb — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:30:00 +0000

Of course it’s corrupted! Didn’t you read Seduction of the Innocent?

By: Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:25:00 +0000

The file’s fine — I think you must have had an interrupted download. try control-reload or F5.

By: Kibo

Kibo — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:23:00 +0000

My favorite of all the early “Mad” knockoffs was “Panic”. This is because it was done by the same people — “Mad”‘s publishers were shrewd enough to try to take some shelf space away from their actual competition.

And let’s not forget that even Archie Comics jumped on this bandwagon with the sad “Archie’s Mad House” (I’ll let you guess which of the three words in the title was drawn much larger than the others.)

By: Feargus Stewart

Feargus Stewart — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:18:00 +0000

The top image appears to be corrupted, Cory. It’s displaying the bottom portion garbled. Really looks like what you used to get when a DOS program crashed.