In a valedictory vein

Farewell to Mad magazine, my satire school

Keen Kane Keen!

I couldn’t tell you when and how I first became aware of Mad magazine but one of my earliest memories of it involves an issue I saw when I was a little boy in the 60s and we were visiting relatives in New Hampshire. (My uncle and aunt had a teenage son who had all the cool teenage stuff, like model hot-rods and Beatles singles, which I r…