Go, Look: Best Magazines Ever List

Mark Evanier discusses this article on ranking the 51 best English-language magazines of all times in terms of MAD's appearance on the list and the semi-dubious nature of its description in that piece. It's a reasonably interesting list, and one with which anyone is likely to disagree at some point or another. I mean, I liked Sassy in its heyday as much as the next person but I kind of think H.L. Mencken's editorial run on American Mercury was the more important, satisfying publication.

At any rate, I thought I'd mention that not one but six of the magazines selected for the list are great comics publications, too: The New Yorker (#2), Playboy (#4), the aforementioned MAD (#6), National Lampoon (#21), the Saturday Evening Post (#22) and Punch (#48). Several others have important but less prevalent cartoon elements, like the "Goofus and Gallant" feature in Highlights (#24).
 
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