Something completely MAD for the kids

What would that be? Why, MAD KIDS, of course! MAD magazine, the long running humor and satire magazine has recently released MAD KIDS in an attempt to pollute minds at an even younger age than previously imagined.

MAD KIDS is actually pretty darn funny and subversive... the humor is geared more towards vomit and booger jokes, but even those are done in the inimitable MAD style, which means FUNNY. There's lots of neat "activity" things to do, like make a flip-book of Grommit vomiting all over Wallace, a maze that finds you dodging a collection of neighborhood creeps and weirdos as you try to get home, and a great pull-out calendar (MAD-style). The magazine is peppered with articles and gags about video games, movies, popstars and celebrities. There's even a two-page article by Peter Bagge (of HATE fame) on "The Ten Worst Things About Christmas" (#2-Parents who don't understand that the words "educational" and "toy" rarely go together). The best thing perhaps is that the back cover can be folded back to make your copy of MAD KIDS look like a composition book so you can sneak it in to school and show your friends without getting caught!

And it has THIS blast from the past, a great old MAD Mini-poster:


Crack me up.

MAD MAGAZINE was the first subscription magazine I ever got... my first issue was June 1970 (when I was 9 - my uncle in Philly had a stack of old MADs in his closet that he would grudgingly allow us to look at) and I kept the subscription up until the late 1970s. MAD was where I gained a satirical distrust of the popular culture world around me... advertisements, products, TV shows and movies were all gleefully skewered by "The Usual Gang Of Idiots". In fact, I'd have to say that MAD helped make me what I am today!

Think I'll go now and give this copy of MAD KIDS to my son Max... it's exactly what a boy needs!