Mad #488 April 2008

• Cover Artist: Jack Syracuse
• Cover Photographer: Irving Schild

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• Contents Page (An Important Message to
  All Mad Readers from Mr. Jingles, Editor in Chief)
• Dedication of issue to J. Fred Muggs
  (cover artist for issue #38)
• Meet The New Staff of Mad
  (written by Jeff Kruse / Tom Richmond art)
• Letters
• Ad for Subscription with bonus #43 print offer
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• The Monkey-Lini Pages (Charles Akins, Scott Bricher,
  

Jacob Chabot, Tom Cheney, Dick DeBartolo, Desmond Devlin, Garth Gerhart, Gary Hallgren, Jeff Kruse, Kevin Pope)
• False Ape-Spectations
• Chuckles & Jo-Jo's Guide to Communication
• Other Magazines Already Taken Over by Monkeys
• Pull My Cheney!
• Top Weekend Movie Box Office
• Bittermonkey
• Graphic Novel Review - The Opposable Boboonsbury
• MONKey (TV satire) (written by Charlie Kadau / Mort Drucker art)
• A Mad Look At Humans (Sergio Aragones)
• MOMA - The Museum of Monkey Art - Winter/Spring Catalogue
  • Cover (sculpture by Hermann Mejia)
  • "Gorilla with a Pearl Earring" by Banannas Vermeer (Roberto Parada art)
  • "Whistler's Monkey" (Richard Williams art)
  • "The Screech" by Edvard Munkee (James Warhola art)
• Snappy Answers to Stupid Human Questions (Al Jaffee)
• Great Monkeys in American History (written by Teresa Burns Parkhurst / Tom Fowler art)
• MonkeyBay (written by Scott Maiko)
• Ad for Mad Classics
• Spy vs. Spy (Peter Kuper)
• eHarmonkey (ad parody) (Teresa Burns Parkhurst)
• The Strip Club
  • Me, Myself and My Prehensile Tail Puppet (John Kovaleski)
  • Pondering the Really Meaningful Stuff... (Rob Harrell)
  • Grooming Gaffes (Emily Flake)
  • Spare the Rod... Spoil the Monkey (Scott Cunningham)
  • The Facts of Life (Jason Yungbluth)
  • Fantabula Monkey (Ted Rall)
  • Just Beneath the Peel (Douglas Paszkiewicz)
  • Harry Plotters (Eric Scott)
  • It Only Hurts When I Go "Ook Ook Oook"! - I'm Ape About Her (Christopher Baldwin)
• 10 Things You, As a Concerned Monkey, Can Do to Save the Environment (John Caldwell)
• How to Draw a Monkey (John Caldwell)
• Bananas Republic (catalog parody) (written by Scott Maiko / Leonardo Rodriguez art)
• Fold-In -- What's the worst thing that can happen to any monkey? (Al Jaffee)