Blake Butler

Mad Magazine Rejection Letter

24 Comments

1. July 28th, 2010 / 4:11 pm Jhon Baker—

   this is the greatest rejection I have ever seen. I am going to submit something to Mad just to get something like this. Everyone should have a rejection this in the rejection file – it would make us all a little more proud of our inferior work!

2. July 28th, 2010 / 4:43 pm MDA—

   This is so great, especially the last line. I have to write rejections all of the time–I’ve been wildly outclassed. I hope they haven’t rewritten this into something more corporate.

3. July 28th, 2010 / 4:53 pm R. Allen—

   Awesome.

4. July 28th, 2010 / 5:04 pm Robert Moreira—

   fucking hilarious!

5. July 28th, 2010 / 5:46 pm Sean—

   Uh, really? I thought Mad would have an awesome rejection letter. This is like 2 obvious laughs.

6. July 28th, 2010 / 5:47 pm Sean—

   Or to state it another way; Jimmy Chen in 110 % more funny.

7. July 28th, 2010 / 6:35 pm mcMC—

   Wonder what their retraction letter for accepted material might be like. Or what you might have to send some day before they’d consider rejecting your material.

   Probably, rather than being funnier, it’d mostly just spark a lot of bitching and name-calling and chest-beating, as well as a series of serious, aggrieved laments as to the end of days.

8. July 28th, 2010 / 6:45 pm Reynard Seifert—

   agreed, nothing is funny anymore, going to commit sudoku

9. July 28th, 2010 / 7:23 pm Jimmy Chen—

   damn jews

10. July 28th, 2010 / 8:11 pm Jhon Baker—

    this is the greatest rejection I have ever seen. I am going to submit something to Mad just to get something like this. Everyone should have a rejection this in the rejection file – it would make us all a little more proud of our inferior work!

11. July 28th, 2010 / 8:43 pm MDA—

    This is so great, especially the last line. I have to write rejections all of the time–I’ve been wildly outclassed. I hope they haven’t rewritten this into something more corporate.

12. July 28th, 2010 / 8:53 pm R. Allen—

    Awesome.

13. July 28th, 2010 / 9:04 pm Robert Moreira—

    fucking hilarious!

14. July 28th, 2010 / 9:46 pm Sean—

    Uh, really? I thought Mad would have an awesome rejection letter. This is like 2 obvious laughs.

15. July 28th, 2010 / 9:47 pm Sean—

    Or to state it another way; Jimmy Chen in 110 % more funny.

16. July 28th, 2010 / 10:35 pm mcMC—

    Wonder what their retraction letter for accepted material might be like. Or what you might have to send some day before they’d consider rejecting your material.

    Probably, rather than being funnier, it’d mostly just spark a lot of bitching and name-calling and chest-beating, as well as a series of serious, aggrieved laments as to the end of days.

17. July 28th, 2010 / 10:45 pm Reynard Seifert—

    agreed, nothing is funny anymore, going to commit sudoku

18. July 28th, 2010 / 11:23 pm Jimmy Chen—

    damn jews

19. July 29th, 2010 / 12:19 am Nuts A'poppin—

    “Anymore?” This rejection slip is from the mid 1970s at the latest. Al Feldstein hasn’t been an editor at Mad for decades.

20. July 29th, 2010 / 1:44 am Reynard Seifert—

    they still publish mad, wtf

21. July 29th, 2010 / 4:19 am Nuts A'poppin—

    “Anymore?” This rejection slip is from the mid 1970s at the latest. Al Feldstein hasn’t been an editor at Mad for decades.

22. July 29th, 2010 / 5:44 am Reynard Seifert—

    they still publish mad, wtf

23. July 29th, 2010 / 12:57 pm Chad—

    The letter was originally posted on the incredible, wonderful website Letters of Note: http://www.lettersofnote.com/ Lot’s o’ good stuff there.

24. July 29th, 2010 / 4:57 pm Chad—

    The letter was originally posted on the incredible, wonderful website Letters of Note: http://www.lettersofnote.com/ Lot’s o’ good stuff there.