Mad Magazine Recurring Features


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Reinterpretations of established written works and quotations using photos for a MAD effect.

ARTICLE TITLE WRITER / ARTIST ISSUE / DATE
The Preamble Revisited Max Brandel / photos 109 - Mar 1967
The Ten Commandments - Revisited Max Brandel / photos 112 - Jul 1967
America, the Beautiful - Revisited Max Brandel and Frank Jacobs / photos 113 - Sep 1967
Communism Revisited Max Brandel / photos 142 - Apr 1971
Max Brandel was a master of this,
but there have been other instances in which Mad applied photos or drawings (or both)
to quotes from public figures or lines from famous literary works (lots of Shakespeare!) --
a few not necessarily Revisited examples:

ARTICLE TITLE WRITER / ARTIST ISSUE / DATE
Shakespeare Up-To-Date William Garvin / Jack Rickard 92 - Jan 1965
That Sinking Feeling Max Brandel and Frank Jacobs
and Richard Nixon / photos
145 - Sep 1971
William Shakespeare... Movie Critic Henry Clark / photos 224 - Jul 1981
William Shakespeare... Social Critic Henry Clark / photos 225 - Sep 1981
William Shakespeare... at the Post Office Frank Jacobs / Jack Rickard Mad-84 - 1984
Wonderland Revisited Lou Silverstone / Bob Clarke 277 - Mar 1988
Donald Trump vs. The Bible Desmond Devlin / Ward Sutton 540 - Aug 2016

...and then there are all the examples of long form poetry,
like Woodman, Spare That Tree illustrated by Don Martin

and lots from the comics, like Wreck of the Hesperus illustrated by Wally Wood...
this could go on forever!
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Excerpt from The Ten Commandments - Revisited - from 112 - July 1967