157 MAD Paper Airplane

Ah yes, the ubiquitous paper airplane folded from a magazine cover, and not just any magazine. I have a whole stack of these saved from my youth, and... more

by YoPedro

Title

157 MAD Paper Airplane

Artist

YoPedro

Medium

Photograph - Folded Paper

Description

Ah yes, the ubiquitous paper airplane folded from a magazine cover, and not just any magazine. I have a whole stack of these saved from my youth, and none of them are in collectable condition, because I actually read them over and over, as kids are apt to do. So what to do with them? Why not fold them into paper airplanes. That's almost as good a use of my time as reading them in the first place.

As an aside, you should know that this is a parody of issue No. 157, March, 1973, "The Planet Of The Apes", with a cover price of .40 cents CHEAP, and has an Alfred E. Neuman illustration by Norman Mingo adorning the cover.

This is "Appropriation Art", or at least it's my version of it. It's a tribute to my youth, and the time I spent reading trashy magazines. They were damn good trashy magazines though!

My collection is paltry, not much to brag about, and certainly not impressive by any standard what so ever. I've poured over these magazines too many times to remember, and I was often too young to understand many of the subtle references that were scattered throughout the pages. When I page through these old magazines, I'm often surprised at the humor, it's often far too sophisticated for who I was back when these came out.

Still, I enjoyed them quite a bit, and all these years later, they still make me smile.

They have no real value as collectors issues, so I use them today as best I can, making art from their old dusty covers, and maybe helping to keep them alive for another young collector, just in a different form. -YoPedro

Uploaded

October 20th, 2016