From: mark sinker
Sent: Mon, Sep 23, 2019 1:52 pm
Subject: Re: (PS re): Landscape envy and other symptoms

yes it’s interesting i hardly ever see MAD talked abt in this story — the only exception being todd gitlin’s book on the politics of 1968 (called “1968”), which touches on it when setting the scene for the attitudes of the new left


From: Don Allred
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2019 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: (PS re): Landscape envy and other symptoms

Yeah, and maybe even before UR-MAD, or around the same time, R. Crumb put out a junior high school comix zine, bringing the 'tude back homesliced---as seen in the CRUMB doc.


From: Frank Kogan
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 12:14 AM
Subject: Re: (PS re): Landscape envy and other symptoms

MAD was prime culture for eight-year-old Frank in 1962, though what stuck with me maybe came both later and earlier: in 1965 in Rome (!) I managed to get several pocket-sized paperback MAD anthologies. I remember a Berg’s Eye View with a woman in slacks, yard-work, hands on hips, glaring at a dog and the dog’s well-groomed owner in beret, the woman saying “Get that animal off my lawn,” and the beret man drawing up in proper dignity: “Madam, my dog is NOT an animal.” But by then (at the old age of eleven) I’d decided that most of MAD’s social satire was too simplistic, and I instead was more charmed by an early MAD antho from the Fifties, before the MADsters felt they had to have ideas. Seemed saucier and more chaotic, mad for its own sake; though all I can recall is a Hound Of The Basketballs parody where the dark and sexy female villain is unmasked at the end and lets loose with a string of ampersanded and @ signed obscenities, the duck from Groucho popping down on a string to inform her she’d hit the Word Of The Day.