In the 2020 primaries, Donald Trump said that Mayo Pete looks like Alfred E. Neuman (which is devastatingly accurate), and Pete countered that he'd never heard of Alfred E. Neuman and it "must be an old person thing." That was incredibly weird to me, because I'm younger than Pete Buttigieg and I know who Alfred E. Neuman is.
It seems like there's three possibilities: One is that Pete does know who Alfred E. Neuman is, and his retort was simply try-hard and pathetic. Another possibility is that Pete does not know who Alfred E. Neuman is because he's been such a careerist psycho his whole life that he knows nothing but the most basic of pop culture references and whatever his staffers tell him about. The third possibility is that I'm unusual in my age cohort for knowing Alfred E. Neuman. My friends and I read Mag Magazine as kids, but we were nerds, and it may have been well past the heyday when Mad was a universal cultural touchstone for kids.
I know him from the mad covers when I was a kid and used to browse video game magazines in the grocery store. Anyone remember trading card game magazines? They'd have cool fantasy covers by artists like Keith Parkinson and would cover games like mtg or pokemon.
Was Wizards of the Coast one of those?
Wizard magazine, yes
Was all about the nerdy collectible shit like comics and tabletop games
Why back in '08 I drove down to Wizard World in Chicago to heckle the EIC of Marvel Comivs
I want to say yes but my memory is fuzzy without googling.
Inquest was the mtg one
Ah yeah inquest! I had one of them growing up.
ha same I had one issue, it was like a window into a nerdier world I couldn't afford