Retro Pop Culture A to Z: From Atari 2600 to Zombie Films by Brett Weiss

Author:Brett Weiss [Weiss, Brett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Dreamers Publishing
Published: 2014-01-08T23:00:00+00:00

As with many Baby Boomers, Shutt’s worldview was shaped—at least in part—by Mad magazine. “Mad had a major impact on my view of advertising and authority and the idea of reading beneath what is said to see the real truth,” he said. “Mad was the first ‘authority figure’ (in that it was a nationally published magazine) that told me not to believe everything I read or heard. It pointed out some of the nonsense that we accepted or took for granted in the media around us.”

Shutt distinctly remembers the first issue of Mad that he ever read. “I was eight years old,” he said. “My older brother bought it, and I was just astonished by it! He started buying every issue after that, and at some point I picked up when he stopped. When he left for college, I kind of ‘inherited’ the stack of issues we had and kept buying it, even after I went off to college. I finally stopped in the early 1980s, but later filled in my back issues up to #350 (Oct, 1996), long after it had lost its bite for me. I still buy an occasional issue, but not many.”

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