
When Mad was turned into a magazine in 1954 every publisher & his uncle came up with his own version often using the same talent Behaving Madly presents 200 pages of never reprinted material by Bill Elder Jack Davis John Severin Al Jaffee Joe Maneely Jack Kirby Ross Andru Joe Kubert Russ Heath Bob Powell Howard Nostrand Basil Wolverton Steve Ditko Lee Elias & many others This coffee table art book is produced by comic strip historian Ger Apeldoorn & Eisner winner Craig Yoe Looking for a little more excitement in your life? Get mad & get Snafu Lunatickle Cockeyed Crazy Thimk Frenzy Frantic Loco Panic & Zany too! Meet the Author Vice magazine has called Criag Yoe the " Indiana Jones of comics historians" Publisher Weekly says he&s the "archivist of the ridiculous & the sublime" & calls his work "brilliant" The Onion calls him "the celebrated designer" The Library Journal "a comics guru" Boing Boing hails him "a fine cartoonist & a comig book historian of the first water" Yoe was Creative Director Vice President General Manager of Jim Henson&s Muppets & a Creative Director at Nickelodeon & Disney Craig has won an Eisner Award & the Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators Ger Apeldoorn is a write for television stage & screen in the Netherlands writing & translating comics on the side As a comic book historian he has contributed to Alter Ego & Hogan&s Alley & runs the celebrated blog The Fabulous Fifties A lifelong fan of stire magazines he started his career translating for the Dutch Mad at 17 Forty years later he edited a revival of the Dutch Mad which ran for six glorious issues