'Totally MAD: 60 Years of Humor, Satire, Stupidity and Stupidity' with Introduction by Stephen Colbert and Eric Drysdale.

Totally MAD (originally titled The New American Cookbook until cooler heads prevailed) is the ultimate collection of MAD’s most idiotic material, including such classics as Spy vs. Spy, The MAD Fold-in, A MAD Look At…, The Lighter Side of, Horrifying Clichés and The Shadow Knows, plus modern MAD classics including The MAD Strip Club and The Fundalini Pages.

Whether you grew up with MAD in the 50s, 60s, or 70s, reading it with a flashlight under the covers so your parents wouldn’t catch you, or in the 80s, 90s and beyond, reading it while watching the MADtv sketch comedy show or the more recent animated series on the Cartoon Network, this book will bring back fond memories and also provide a great introduction to MAD for new readers. Then again, maybe not.

SPECIAL BONUS!
Includes “The Soul of MAD,” 12 classic cover prints, ten featuring Alfred E. Neuman, MAD’s gap-toothed grinning idiot mascot. These beautiful reproductions are suitable for framing or wrapping fish.

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With a hilarious foreword by Stephen Colbert and Eric Drysdale, Totally Mad is 254 glossy pages of Mad’s unique take on just about everything: just as sarcastic, sharp, iconoclastic, and funny as you seem to remember. Arranged by decade, the all the “usual gang of idiots” responsible for deranging…er…enlightening several generations of innocent minds are there: Antonio Prohias’ classic “Spy vs Spy”comic, the ingenious MAD fold-ins by Al Jaffee, David Berg’s “Lighter Side of…,” and my personal favorites, the spot-on movie and TV satires of Mort Drucker, Jack Davis, and Tom Richmond.

Full Review: Blog Critics.

“ ‘Totally MAD’ is for older readers,” says veteran MAD editor John Ficarra. “This is clearly a nostalgia trip, and, hopefully, they’ll be transported back to their bedrooms or their cousin’s basement. . . . I want to bring older readers back to the magazine, and I want to bring MAD to a new generation of readers.”

Full Article: The Washington Post.

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