July 28th, 2010 / 3:05 pm
Behind the Scenes

Mad Magazine Rejection Letter

[via Magic Molly]

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24 Comments

  1. 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. 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. R. Allen

      Awesome.

  4. Robert Moreira

      fucking hilarious!

  5. Sean

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

  6. Sean

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

  7. 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. Reynard Seifert

      agreed, nothing is funny anymore, going to commit sudoku

  9. Jimmy Chen

      damn jews

  10. 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. 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. R. Allen

      Awesome.

  13. Robert Moreira

      fucking hilarious!

  14. Sean

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

  15. Sean

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

  16. 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. Reynard Seifert

      agreed, nothing is funny anymore, going to commit sudoku

  18. Jimmy Chen

      damn jews

  19. 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. Reynard Seifert

      they still publish mad, wtf

  21. 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. Reynard Seifert

      they still publish mad, wtf

  23. 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. Chad

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