Amid a panic over youth corruption, inspired in part by EC’s other publications, editor Harvey Kurtzman convinced Gaines to ...

In his book Breakdowns, about his artist’s journey ... schedule at the camps — but the film insists that it was MAD magazine, as much as the ghosts of dead relatives, that guided Spiegelman ...

Mad began in 1952 as a comic book that made fun of other comic books ... even though Bill Gaines (its publisher from the magazine's founding until his death in 1992) refused to accept advertising.