Per our family lore, yours truly’s dearly-departed late mom Marilyn was a direct descendant of Lord and Lady Conn, Irish noble-persons of yore who were born on ...

R. Crumb (Robert Dennis Crumb, to be precise) is the far-out cartoonist/chronicler of the 1960s and ’70s counterculture whose ...

Donald Trump loves coming up with offensive nicknames for his detractors and enemies, but more often than not they expose how ...

Jac Caglianone shrugged off the notion of any pressure he feels: “That stress is something that’s unnecessary. Unwarranted, ...

Not until Mad magazine arrived to poke holes in everything from politics to movies to advertising. And even if you never picked up Mad, you probably know Alfred E. Neuman, its moronic mascot.

The Unauthorized Story of Mad Magazine," the Pleasant Ridge ... to lead a discussion on the history of Mad mascot Alfred E. Neuman. Shortly after, Bernstein talked to a couple of former Mad ...

In 1964, MAD commissioned Rockwell himself to paint a portrait of Alfred E. Neuman, the humor magazine’s gap-toothed mascot, as he might have looked in real life.

In 1956, MAD magazine’s editor Al Feldstein commissioned artist Norman Mingo to create the publication’s iconic freckle-faced and gap-toothed mascot, Alfred E Neuman. An essay tracing the ...

Before becoming the premiere parody magazine teaching ... minefields of Vietnam, Alfred E. Neuman dismissed the crass commercialism by asking “Who needs you?” MAD aligned with the counterculture.

Naively I searched the whole magazine for the ending to the ... Some things I never quite understood – like the “MAD” icon Alfred E. Neuman. Who was he? Not that it mattered.

April 1 has long been recognized as the symbolic birthday of MAD mascot Alfred E. Neuman, whose gap-toothed visage has graced the cover of the magazine for decades. A version with his teeth and ...