John Landis verfilmt das Leben des MAD-Erfinders

Das ist doch mal ‘ne Nachricht. John Landis soll bei „Ghoulishly Yours, William M. Gaines“ Regie führen, der sowieso jetzt schon von mir den Preis für den besten Filmtitel seit „Werewolves on Wheels“ (Insider!) erhält. Ein Biopic über das Leben des Verlegers vom MAD-Magazine und Tales from the Crypt, eine Art „The People vs. Larry Flynnt“, nur ohne Hustler, dafür aber mit Alfred E. Neumann. Toll!

In the early 1950s EC Comics became renown amongst adults, sneaky young people and creative-types for its rebelliously imaginative and professionally illustrated sci-fi, war and horror comics, with landmark titles that included Tales From the Crypt and Weird Science. Of course, EC also birthed Mad magazine, and the influence of that publication on American pop culture can never be overlooked, just like the ears and missing tooth of its prep-addled mascot Alfred E. Neuman. Gaines’s publishing house basically never recovered when Gaines testified, rather bullishly, at a U.S. Senate subcommittee in 1954 on whether or not his comics contributed to juvenile delinquency in America. A national witch hunt, censorship, the Comics Code, and general apathy for what EC stood for notoriously drove it out of business, but Gaines went on to publish Mad until he died in 1992. (/Film)

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