EXTRA: Hell freezes over; DC COMICS actually lifts finger to promote MAD!
Well, now…this is interesting: on the Media page of Huffington Post, there’s a piece about MAD and its take on the presidential election — including 3 actual advance pictures of the cover and 2 political posters from the upcoming September issue – which, the writer notes, “DC Comics, the publisher of MAD Magazine, has offered Huffington Post an exclusive look at…”
Wow. So, evidently, it looks like someone at the parent company of MAD has decided to start doing something for them other than locking them into a “death spiral” by concurrently: doubling their workload; slashing their budget and their staff; and squeezing them into half of their previous office space.
You’ll have to excuse me: I find this development so shocking, I’m going to have to go lie down for awhile!
I just read this post, which struck me as odd and somewhat out of touch. Any rabid MAD fan knows that the magazine generated tremendous media attention earlier this year when a dozen or so Pulitzer Prize winners illustrated a piece on Bush and the environment. An article about this editorial coup ran in the NY Times and in newpapers all over the country and online. I’m sure that wouldn’t have happened without the full support of MAD’s “parent company.” MAD also made news recently with its very funny Circuit City parody and one of the editors was even quoted in Time, I sure (again )with the blessings of MAD’s “parent company.” So why would anyone who claims to know what’s going on at MAD find it “shocking” that MAD stuff was picked up by the Huffington Post?