Al Feldstein Quotes

• Kids, Madison Avenue is lying to you. Your parents are lying to you. The president is lying to you.

  Al Feldstein

  Lying, Kids, Parent

  Interview with Jason Heller, tv.avclub.com. March 29, 2007.

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• The comic-book industry today is not what it was back then, unfortunately. Kids are no longer interested in reading comic books; they've got television and the electronic games that they can bury themselves in like ostriches. They don't have to pay attention to what's going on in the world around them.

  Al Feldstein

  Book, Reading, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Where are the young people today? Why are they allowing some of the things that are happening in their country? I am really upset about that. I feel that they are burying their heads in the sand of electronic games and television. They don't want to know. Maybe they realize that their yuppie parents who protested Vietnam have turned on their ideals and are now struggling to buy a Lexus or whatever. These kids don't know what to revolt against, so they just completely ignore it, which is a very frightening thing.

  Al Feldstein

  Country, Struggle, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What we went to World War II for, at least in my mind, was not getting taken care of. It was supposed to be a brave new world, but we were getting back into the old ruts, and we were in a cold war with Russia.

  Al Feldstein

  War, Taken, Brave New World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Young Baby Boomers were forced to play duck-and-cover in school, in hopes that a desk would protect them from an atomic explosion. It was all bullshit, and they knew it. They were questioning the entire adult establishment, and that was the root cause of juvenile delinquency. It was also the root cause of EC's success; kids were looking for ways to numb themselves to this horror that they felt.

  Al Feldstein

  Baby, School, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The bipartisan approach filtered up through my typewriter. I used to say, "Mad takes on both sides." We even used to rake the hippies over the coals. They were protesting the Vietnam War, but we took aspects of their culture and had fun with it. Mad was wide open. Bill loved it, and he was a capitalist Republican. I loved it, and I was a liberal Democrat. That went for the writers, too; they all had their own political leanings, and everybody had a voice. But the voices were mostly critical. It was social commentary, after all.

  Al Feldstein

  Fun, War, Hippie

  Source: www.avclub.com

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