MAD Magazine to shut down after 67 years

[Teelie]

Cracked was another one that I had a few issues of but even as a kid I knew that it was a blatant ripoff of MAD. They seem to have done better as a website though.

Even Cracked's website suffered though. They started off well then traded hands a few times and ended up going bankrupt, firing/laying off nearly all of their veteran staff and hired a bunch of new people with little experience and often click bait-y articles that weren't nearly as good as their old stuff.

I gave up on them a few years ago.

MAD has their own site but it was/is an inferior one to Cracked's. I have a few MAD and Cracked magazines in a box somewhere, mostly from the early '00's but a few from the 80's and 90's too. I don't know where they all ended up.

MAD can live on through the internet like some other print companies have done but it won't be the same.

 

[JimThompson]

 

[JimThompson]

 

[Drizzle]

Even Cracked's website suffered though. They started off well then traded hands a few times and ended up going bankrupt, firing/laying off nearly all of their veteran staff and hired a bunch of new people with little experience and often click bait-y articles that weren't nearly as good as their old stuff.

That's a shame. I haven't really been on their site in the past couple of years either but a lot of their articles from within their first five years of launching were hysterical.

 

[JimThompson]

 

[JimThompson]

 

[Fadoulie]

R.I.P. MAD Magazine, you had a great run

 

[batdude]

Yeah the end of an era for sure.

 

[JimThompson]

 

[JimThompson]

 

[JimThompson]

 

[JimThompson]