Tag: Mad Magazine

Today’s mail brought plenty of politics. I’m just back from vacation and there was a large pile of parcels waiting for me in the newsroom, and the first one I opened contained "MAD About Politics" (Insight Editions, $34.95), a fancy new pop-up book from "the usual gang of idiots" at MAD Magazine, and the second one contained a T-shirt featuring an especially heroic vision of Democratic candidate Barack Obama drawn by Alex Ross, one of the true superstars in comics since his landmark 1990s work on "Astro City" and "Kingdom Come." It’s pretty clear it’s election season, isn’t it? First, the book: I’m a big fan of MAD and, in fact, I don’t really trust people who don’t like it. I was talking to the novelist Brad Meltzer last week and he mentioned that MAD usually seems to be the ...