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The MAD Files: Writers and Cartoonists on the Magazine that Warped America's Brain!: A Library of America Special Publication

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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller

There's no better way to enjoy the cultural imprint MAD Magazine made than with some of the folks who made it. This is what we've been waiting for, a collection of work from some of the greatest to pass through the pages of MAD.

Celebrate America's zaniest and most subversive magazine in 26 essays and comix from all-star contributors, including Roz Chast, Jonathan Lethem, and Grady Hendrix.

Before SNL and the wise-guy sarcasm of Letterman and Colbert, before The Simpsons and online memes, there was . . . MAD.


A mainstay of countless American childhoods, MAD magazine exploded onto the scene in the 1950s and gleefully thumbed its nose at all the postwar pieties. MAD became the zaniest, most subversive satire magazine e...