It's a MAD World: The Comic Genius of MAD Magazine

Zany, irreverent, twisted, and subversive, MAD magazine erupted in the 1950s to gleefully thumb its nose at postwar pieties and conformity. Almost by accident, it remade American humor and inspired generations of our most gifted and iconoclastic (not to mention funniest) writers, artists, and performers. Join Roz Chast, Art Spiegelman, David Hajdu, and David Mikics, editor of the newly published The MAD Files: Writers and Cartoonists on the Magazine that Warped America’s Brain!, for a lively and personal journey into the soul of this one-of-a-kind publication whose gimlet eye for pop culture, politics, and everyday absurdity transformed the whole nation into a high-school cafeteria.