Children's Books Satires in Mad

[Jo Pitesky UCLA Astronomy]

This month's MAD magazine (the one with Alfred E. Neuman dressed as
a headbanger on the cover) contains some hysterically funny (IMO)
political satires of some much-loved children's books (e.g.
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Dead Fish is an environmental sendup,
while UnCurious George shows our last president and his predecessor,
The Actor In The Big Hat).

Worth a look when you're at the market (I confess, I have a
subscription: I always wanted one as a kid, and now I can finally
afford it ;-)

Jo Pitesky
pit...@bonnie.astro.ucla.edu

[Dan Drazen]

In article <32dk1b$6...@news.mic.ucla.edu> pitesky@mira (Jo Pitesky UCLA

You should also check out the single-panel cartoon reprinted in Matt
Groening's _Childhood is Hell_. Titled "Those Childhood Classics We
Read Over and Over and Over", it displays such titles as "The Father Of
Whom The Whole Family Was Afraid", "The Children who were Beaten Because
the Bible Says: `Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child'", and "Cinderella:
what REALLY happened." I saw it used as a photocopied handout at an
adult children of alcoholics meeting.

Listen...do you hear that? It's the sound of this subject suddenly
becoming not funny. Sorry.

Daniel J. Drazen