MAD Magazine Recurring Features
Revisited
in Order of Appearance in Regular Issues
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!
excerpt from The Ten Commandments — Revisited — from #112, July 1967