Frank Jacobs
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Frank Jacobs holds the distinction of being MAD Magazine's longest-tenured writer, having appeared regularly since 1957. While having written articles of all kinds, he is best known as a versifier who contributes parodies of famous song lyrics and poems.
His writing for MAD first appeared in issue #33 dated June 1957, to which he contributed five items, of which the first to appear in page order was "Baseball's Hall of Shame."
A classic example of Jacobs's verse writing is "The MAD Poetry Round Robin" (#125, March 1969) (illustrated by George Woodbridge), which takes nine famous poems by different authors and rewrites them as if each had been by a different one of the nine authors.
Jacobs also was MAD's "Designated Obituary Writer" and wrote fabricated obituaries for fictional characters from TV shows and comic strips.
Jacobs wrote the book The Mad World of William M. Gaines, published by Lyle Stuart in November 1972 (ISBN #0818400544).
| Contributors to Mad "The Usual Gang of Idiots" |
| Editors |
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| Jerry DeFuccio | Al Feldstein | John Ficarra | Harvey Kurtzman | Nick Meglin |
| Writers |
| Anthony Barbieri | Dick DeBartolo | Desmond Devlin | Stan Hart | Frank Jacobs | Tom Koch | Arnie Kogen | Barry Leibmann | Jay Lynch | Andrew J. Schwartzberg | Larry Siegel | Lou Silverstone | Mike Snider |
| Writer-Artists |
| Sergio Aragonés | Dave Berg | John Caldwell | Don Edwing | Al Jaffee | Don Martin | Paul Peter Porges | Antonio Prohías |
| Artists |
| Tom Bunk | Bob Clarke | Paul Coker, Jr. | Jack Davis | Mort Drucker | Will Elder | Drew Friedman | Bernard Krigstein | Peter Kuper | Hermann Mejia | Norman Mingo | Tom Richmond | Jack Rickard | John Severin | Angelo Torres | Rick Tulka | Sam Viviano | Basil Wolverton | Monte Wolverton | Wally Wood | George Woodbridge | Bill Wray |
| Photographers |
| Irving Schild |
| Related articles |
| Mad Magazine | William M. Gaines |
