Long-running satirical publication MAD magazine will be leaving newsstands this fall | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Long-running satirical publication MAD magazine will be leaving newsstands this fall | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

By AP |New Delhi |Published: July 5, 2019 6:08:13 pm

Long-running satirical publication MAD magazine will be leaving newsstands this fall

The magazine changed as its circumstances did, he wrote, including when the magazine began printing advertisements in 2001 and when it moved from New York City to Burbank, California, at the end of 2017.

Well-known names such as Al Jaffee, Harvey Kurtzman and Mort Drucker were associated with the magazine for decades. (Source: Getty/Thinkstock Images)

MAD, the long-running satirical magazine that influenced everyone from “Weird Al” Yankovic to the writers of “The Simpsons,” will be leaving newsstands after its August issue. Really. The illustrated humour magazine _ instantly recognizable by the gap-toothed smiling face of mascot Alfred E. Neuman will still be available in comic shops and through mail to subscribers. But after its fall issue, it will just reprint previously published material.