more Mexican MAD

Here's the last of the foreign MADs I have copies of, this one #19 of their third edition from 1994. From what little I know, Los Caballeros del Zodiaco (Knights of the Zodiac) is/was an anime show popular in Latin America, and this translates loosely to Knights of the Armpit. Man Out of Time, I don't know if it's as in “anachronistic” or “running out of”. That does it for now for foreign editions of Mad, but I'm always looking for more. I want to thank Michael Sullivan for copies of some of the ones I've been running the past few weeks, as well as Gabriel Corbera and Simon Gardenfors for also pointing me in the right direction.

Next Wednesday I'll start showing Peanuts comic book stories from Nancy

Norsk MAD

Here we go with the original pages from the Norwegian Mad. Like the other issues I've shown from other countries, there's more emphasis on newspaper comics. Beetle Bailey also has a bigger audience (percentage-wise) in Scandanavia, doing some original material for that market.

This is #8 from 1990. Sorry about this. I think ethnic jokes are more acceptable in other countries. Or maybe it's not one. Maybe it's one of those "heart in the right place" things like Benny Hill where the main character is supposed to be the target but it seems like someone else is. Hard to tell when it's a foreign culture portraying another foreign culture in a different language.

I guess the joke is when Europeans go to non-white countries they stand out because they dress so stereotypical? Next Wednesday: Another Mexican edition of Mad courtesy of Michael Sullivan.

KRETEN 2/2

Last week, I published some of the Hungarian edition of Mad. Here's the rest.

The syndicated panel “Pet Gags” The continuing adventures of Aldo. Next Wednesday: The Mad-themed 2002 Cognex annual report.

Thanks to Michael Sullivan for giving me all these foreign Mad xeroxes.

KRETEN 1 of 2

In Hungary, there are two different editions of Mad. The one called Mad which has translations of the American material and this one, Kreten, a humor magazine using the name Mad but containing original material. This, the magazine of “America's cultural wasteland” is issue #39 in May 1999. The interior of the magazine has a fumetti parody of the new Star Wars movie.

Here are excerpts from a syndicated gag panel. Most of the jokes are self-explanatory without translations. The Star Wars gag is similar to one Sergio Aragones did in A Mad Look at Star Wars in #197, March 1978 The front page, in addition to the above gag panel, also has a couple text pieces. This is an illustration for a recipe for “bacon pie” This is from their Star Trek: The Next Generation parody. More gag panels. They can get away with more tit jokes there.

The rest of the highlights from this magazine next Wednesday.

MAD in Brazil

This issue, number 29, is from...I'm going to say sometime in the late 80's.

Here, AIDS stands for “High Incidence of Brain Defect”. One Day in the Life of Sherlock Holmes

Before anyone says this is racist, it is a reference to another literary character.

Okay, it's racist. One Second Before the Discussion... A Mad Look at Cows A Day in the Life of Robert Smixo. AIDS Hospital Director of the Year I didn't get the actual copy of this magazine, it's from xeroxes given to me by Michael Sullivan. You can tell there was a Fold-In here. Next week: Hungarian Mad