Steve Timko wrote: > I was surprised to see the Don Martin joke on "Family Guy" last night. > Seems like that would be too obscure, Did that many people read MAD > magazine? Was Martin around that long? Is there any connection between > Martin and Seth MacFarlane?
With the caveat that Seth MacFarlane is not the only writer on "Family Guy," and so it may not have been "his" reference in the first place: he's about the right age to have started reading MAD in the early 1980s, when their circulation was well over 1 million (peak circulation was something like 3-4 million in the early-to-mid-1970s). New Don Martin work appeared in MAD up until 1988 (and then in Cracked for a few years after that), and then there were the reprints that appeared in the "Super Special" issues, plus various paperback collections that were readily available. (I can speak from experience on this because I'm about the same age as MacFarlane, and read new issues of MAD regularly from 1982 to 1992 -- I also had some Don Martin paperbacks that were "inherited" from my father.) -- Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]> <http://www.ellwanger.tv> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... Smart (TV) People on Ice! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
