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Alfred E. Neuman is the fictitious mascot and cover boy of the American humor magazine Mad. The character's distinct smiling face, gap-toothed smile, freckles, red hair, protruding ears, and scrawny body dates back to late 19th-century advertisements for painless dentistry, also the origin of his "What, me worry?"
Mar 3, 2016 · That bumpkin became Alfred E. Neuman, MAD’s mascot, who turns sixty this year—kind of. The impish, immutable redhead made his official debut in December 1956, when he appeared on the cover of MAD no. 30 as a write-in candidate for president.
In this clip from 1977, publisher Bill Gaines talks about the real history of Alfred E. Neuman - the fictitious mascot and cover boy of Mad Magazine. Mad is...
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Mar 17, 2016 · Ever since the big-eared redhead first graced the satirical magazine’s cover in December 1956, Neuman has become synonymous with MAD, appearing on almost every cover since. But while MAD might ...
…gap-toothed cover boy, the fictional Alfred E. Neuman, whose motto “What, me worry?” became the catchphrase of teenage readers. From 1956 Neuman was a write-in candidate in every presidential election, and Gaines once hung a Neuman campaign poster from the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy.
Mar 15, 2020 · By 1956, while the character had already appeared in color in a Jack Davis crowd scene on the cover of MAD #27, MAD’s second editor Al Feldstein wanted a mascot for the magazine and sought a quality artist to capture the boy’s knowing, ironic, gap-toothed grin, forever aimed at his audience.
And even if you never picked up Mad, you probably know Alfred E. Neuman, its moronic mascot. But who came up with Mad? What prompted a lawsuit over Alfred E.?
