MAD Magazine goes from monthly to quarterly, cancels all spinoff mags

Sad News for MAD Fans

It’s a less Mad world. Starting with issue no. 500, to be released in April, the monthly satirical publication will become a quarterly, though it will expand to 56 pages from 48. The changes were announced by DC Comics, which publishes Mad Magazine and is owned by Warner Brother Entertainment. As befits the what-me-worry? attitude of the magazine, its editor, John Ficarra, had a sardonic spin on the news. “The feedback we’ve gotten from readers is that only every third issue of Mad is funny,” he said in a statement. “So we decided to just publish those.” On the bright side, anyone with a subscription to Mad will find that it now lasts longer. The fate of Mad Kids and Mad Classics is less kind. The final issues of those publications will be Feb. 17 and March 17, respectively.

This sucks. First Electronic Gaming Monthly gets the ax, now MAD's only going to be published four times a year, and MAD Classics is cancelled. Now what am I gonna read on the can?

The magazine is dying... unfortunately. I hope Mad pushes their online efforts more, or else it will be the complete end of them before you know it.

I can see myself buying Mad again because of this...