Sunday, December 15, 2019

Letter to MAD #11, Feb 2020

MAD #11, Feb 2020

Yuck! I hated it all!

Idiots!

Please send me a new copy of MAD #11, Feb 2020! I hated it. And the vomit inducing odalisque of Mueller soiled my magazine.  I can’t hang this off the roller, my guests use that bathroom.

MAD Unredacts--oh, Alfred, there you are!--started out swell if you’d uh just blacked out the bucktoothed one, but nOOOooo. Not as boring as the actual redacted reads so look at that fantastic Table of Contents, so succinct, legible, informative, factual, filled with thematic content and surrounded by by conscious and deliberate thematic design.  Here we have everything, beautiful hilarious art, political statement, legalism, eye-catching color with hormone inducing associations. As if the spirit of Mr. Gaines had reached out from the cover and grabbed me by the throat screaming “BUY THIS MAG YOU DOPE! Logo, Sergio, crafted elements suggesting hand work alongside traditional informational signals styles, fonts, typefaces, upper and lower cases, spacing, and the brilliant and final COVER ARTIST Mark Summers, with its powerful title and respectful capitalisation, the perfect cherry on this issue!

I liked the rest of it. (More Table of Contents!)

El Griffo

Slackjaw TX 7XXXX