Royal Oak filmmaker Alan Bernstein isn't the only nostalgia buff who thinks Mad magazine is an overdue documentary film subject, Constance Crump writes at metromode.
Alan BernsteinBernstein recently raised nearly $60,000 from 606 contributors in a Kickstarter campaign to complete his documentary, "When We Went MAD." That topped its $50,000 goal by more than $8,000. . . .
Prior to the Kickstarter campaign, he and his crew had already bagged 20 interviews with past and current editors and contributors.
There are roughly 20 more interviews to go, he says, with a goal of completing the film within the year.
"Many of the people who I interviewed don't write or draw for them any more. I don't think it's any surprise that people refer to it in the past tense. But it's still being published. Kids are still reading it . . . and it still has the same effect on them as it did on us."
Crump quotes a noted graphic novelist:
Art Spiegelman once called MAD "more important than pot and LSD in shaping a generation that protested the Vietnam War."
In Royal Oak, director-producer Bernstein tells the metromode writer:
"I really want to interview people of note who were influenced by MAD: the Stephen Colberts, Howard Sterns and Jon Stewarts of the world."
