The long and tangled history of Alfred E. Neuman.In a 1975 interview with the New York Times, MAD Magazine founder Harvey Kurtzman recalled an illustration of a grinning boy he’d spotted on a postcard in the early fifties: a “bumpkin portrait,”…

World War II’s sensational venereal disease posters. [portfolio_slideshow include="75457,75458,75459,75460,75462,75463,75464,75465,75466" exclude="65536"] J. Howard Miller’s “We Can Do It!” woman first appeared in 1943, when he drew her in a …

When the United States Postal Service finally expires, what will you remember? When the last ornate post office is sold off for “mixed-used development” and all postage is reduced to digital printouts, what will you tell future generations abou…

Once called the “friend of every insomniac in Southern California,” Cal Worthington haunted the nether regions of broadcast programming for more than sixty years. Judging by the frequency of his appearances, their consistency, and their longevi…