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The Mad Files: Writers and Cartoonists on the Magazine That Warped America's Brain!: A Library of America Special Publication -- David Mikics, Paperback Activity Books And for everyone who strugglesCelebrate America's zaniest and most subversive magazine in 26 essays and comix from all star contributors, including Roz Chast, Jonathan Lethem, and Grady Hendrix. Before SNL and the wise guy sarcasm of Letterman and Colbert, before The Simpsons and online memes, there was . . . MAD. A mainstay of countless American childhoods, MAD magazine exploded onto the scene in the 1950s and gleefully thumbed its nose at all the postwar pieties. MAD became the