Alas, poor Mad magazine, pulled under by its own humor wave
by Clarence Page, Tribune Content Agency
Jul 05, 2019
2 minutes
What? Mad magazine will disappear from newsstands after August? Well, as Dorothy Parker is said to have said after hearing of President Calvin Coolidge's death, "How can they tell?"
After 67 years of publishing elegantly illustrated goofiness, Mad's "Usual Gang of Idiots" is calling it quits -- although not quite totally.
DC Entertainment, the division of Warner Bros. that publishes the magazine, says Mad will still be available in
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