Burning Mad

by William M. Gaines

Genres: Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels

Mass Market Paperback

First published October 1, 1968

Reviews

[Phil · Rating 4 out of 5]

Classic Mad! Along with the usual good comics by Jaffe and Don Martin, this includes a good spoof on 'how a best seller is born'; a jab at the publishing industry. The 'Baseball Primer' also rocked, as did 'Father's day cards'. David Berg has fun with day camp and kids/parents and a good parody of 'progress' via new tech. Lots of fun! 4 Mad stars.

[Kurt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Picked it up at The Cosmic Monkey in Portland, Oregon, for a dollar. Pages were yellowed and dry, the binding needed taping so I could read it in one piece, and the gags were from a different era entirely. Fantastic art and incredibly well-written. These things were fifty or sixty cents back in the day and collected some of the best MAD humor writing of the times. (This one used pieces published from 1962 to 1969.) So good. So nostalgic.

[Pachyderm Bookworm · Rating 5 out of 5]

This "scorcher" of a book will make you an "ash" out of yourself, many times over if you tend to be a person who "fans the flames" or otherwise "burns bridges" over topics like "rejection slips," "misery," "Russian roulette," "best-seller books," "baseball," "beaches," "Father's Day cards," "summer camp," "hand shadows," "comic strip characters," and other incendiary topics sure to "burn a hole in your pocket," along with everybody else's.

The humor here is bound to raise the reader's own body temperature in order to have their blood boiling, along with their cold hearts thawing.

One of the much better collections which the "usual gang of idiots" at MAD magazine have to offer for your money's worth, in conjunction with their time.

[Brittney · Rating 5 out of 5]

Yup, it's MAD. My favorite of all time. Nothing left TO say.