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CREATOR

Name: Mad Magazine.
Personal dates: See under Main Story and Gallery.
Other creations: None.
Successors: None.
Comments: Mad was invented by editor Harvey Kurtzman, and the magazine has employed hundreds of scripters and graphic artists over the years.
The magazine's fictional mascot, Alfred E. Neuman, is portrayed on the left.

MAIN STORY

Mad premiered in 1955, but the series as such was started three years earlier under the title Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad.

The initial idea was to satirize series from other comic books, but soon the magazine concentrated on lampooning the American life-style.

Nowadays the individual stories are most often written and drawn by different artists, but during the first decades they were both written and drawn by the same creators. Examples:
Dave Berg (1920-2002), Antonio Prohías (1921-1998), Al Jaffe (1921- ), Jack Davis (1924- ), Wallace Wood (1927-1981), Paul Coker Jr. (1929- ), Mort Drucker (1929- ), George Woodbridge (1930-2004), Don Martin (1931-2000), Sergio Aragones (1937- ).

GALLERY
(featuring the creators' most famous series)

Dave Berg (1920-2002) The Lighter Side of ...	Antonio Prohías (1921-1998) Spy vs. Spy	Al Jaffe (1921- ) Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions
Mort Drucker (1929- ) Parodies on films and TV shows	Don Martin (1931-2000) Captain Klutz	Sergio Aragones (1937- ) A Mad Look at ...