Thursday, May 1, 2014

RIP: Al Feldstein, 1925-2014

Yeah MAD was Gaines' baby, but in its heyday, this guy ran it. He hired Don Martin. He hired Antonio Prohias. He hired Mort Drucker. He knew his shit. So long, Al.  

3 comments:

LC Aggie Sith said...

The passing of a giant. RIP.

Leonard Jones said...

I read an interview with Bill Gaines in I think it was Plaboy
Magazine. Gaines was fond of playing games wit the
members of the staff at Mad.

He once emptied all the water coolers in the office
and replaced the water in the bottles with white wine.
He then sat back and watched the staff get shit-faced.

One year, the company vacation was to Haiti. One member
of the staff found out there was a single subscriber on
the island, and that he subscription was about to
expire. The guy waited until everybody was falling
down drunk and they wound up pounding on the guys
door in the middle of the night asking the reader to
renew his subscription.

You want to talk about a great workplace environment!

Soylent Sage said...

You read an article in Playboy?!?. Right, like we believe that, Leonard. ;-)