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MAD Magazine Leaving Newsstands After 67-Year Run

Associated Press

   MAD, the long-running satirical magazine that influenced everyone from
   ``Weird Al'' Yankovic to the writers of The Simpsons,will be leaving
   newsstands after its August issue. Really.
   The illustrated humor magazine -- instantly recognizable by the
   gap-toothed smiling face of mascot Alfred E. Neuman -- will still be
   available in comic shops and through mail to subscribers. But after its
   fall issue it will just reprint previously published material.
   The only new material will come in special editions at the end of the
   year.
   DC, the division of Warner Brothers that publishes the magazine, said
   MAD will pull from nostalgic cartoons and parodies published over the
   magazine's 67-year run.
   As Neuman would say, ``What, me worry?'' Worry not, for MAD has more
   than 550 issues packed full of political parodies and edgy humor to
   pull from.

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