Mad's Greatest Writers: Frank Jacobs

Running Press’s 2015 hardcover collects the best of Frank Jacobs’s four-decade run at MAD, showcasing the master parodist’s razor-sharp verse and wordplay. Illustrated throughout by the unmistakable, rubbery cartooning of Paul Coker, this single-volume treasury highlights the wit that made Jacobs one of the magazine’s defining voices. It’s an essential snapshot of MAD’s golden age of satire, preserving the work of a writer who could skewer anything from movies to politics with a perfect rhyme.