#CRACKED MAGAZINE

[driveintheaterofthemind]

Cracked #142 (1977)

Art by John Severin

Major Publications

[disease]

CRACKED #239 [1988]

[writebackatya]

Hey I know those ducks

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔓𝔬𝔰𝔱-𝔞𝔭𝔬𝔠𝔞𝔩𝔶𝔭𝔰𝔢 𝔄𝔡𝔞𝔪 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔈𝔳𝔢, 𝔟𝔶 𝔍𝔬𝔥𝔫 𝔖𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔫, ℭ𝔯𝔞𝔠𝔨𝔢𝔡 𝔪𝔞𝔤𝔞𝔷𝔦𝔫𝔢 #յշ, յգճօ

[owlsounds]

TV detectives parody (featuring Columbo) from CRACKED magazine.

Art by John Severin.

@columboscreens @lieutenant-columbro

[impeack]

its so hard for me to forget about him because back then i used to be overly insane about this lil man since 2019

overwise hes fun to draw

[cartooongasm]

From Cracked magazine-July 1999

[weirdlookindog]

Joe Maneely - Frankenstein and Rock'n'Roll!

[crackedmagazine]

Happy birthday to horror author Clive Barker!!

Hellraiser parody art of Sylvester P Smythe by Bill Wray!

[jedivoodoochile]

Cracked Magazine, December 1978.

[bclaymoore]

Panels and pages from CRACKED #11 (1959)

CRACKED spent most of its life as a sort of second rate imitation of MAD MAGAZINE, but it lasted as long as it did partly because it was still a better imitation that any of the others that popped up throughout the years.

But what this early issue shows is that out of the gate, CRACKED was driven by current and former MAD artists. Here the entire issue is credited to Jack Davis, Will Elder and John Severin, all EC Comics/MAD veterans. The writing was all credited to Paul Laikin, a humorist and former MAD writer.

Davis, of course, would spend decades contributing to MAD Magazine, while Elder, who helped develop the early visual style and feel of MAD while it was still a comic book, would have less and less involvement as time went on. Only Severin would stick it out with CRACKED, eventually becoming perhaps its most familiar, longest tenured artist.

[disease]

CRACKED #287 [1994]

[writebackatya]

The DuckTales spoof from CRACKED Magazine (defunct) certainly is a thing that exists…

from CRACKED #236 (Jul. 1988)

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

[texasthrillbilly]

[arconinternet]

Sick Magazine - various issues (1960-1980)

The other Mad Magazine rival. You can read them here and more here.

“Where Cracked was content as a mimic, Sick took its title as a mission statement.” — comics historian John Wells