Alfred E. Neuman is the fictitious mascot and cover boy of the American humor magazine Mad. The character's distinct smiling face, gap-toothed smile, freckles, red hair, protruding ears, and scrawny body date back to late 19th-century advertisements for painless dentistry, also the origin of his "What, me worry?"

Mar 17, 2016 · There is no image more evocative of MAD magazine than the grinning, gap-toothed, freckled face of its mascot, Alfred E. Neuman. Ever since the big-eared redhead first graced the satirical...

Mar 15, 2020 · Over the decades, the Alfred E. Neuman face and ‘What, me worry?’ phrase have frequently been referenced by broad media, as shorthand for inexplicable idiocy.

Mar 3, 2016 · MAD insiders referred to the kid by various names—Mel Haney, Melvin Cowsnofsky—but when the magazine won legal rights to the face, he was officially christened Alfred E. Neuman. A pseudonym without a specific host, it was one of many counterfeit names used as running gags in the magazine.

Apr 1, 1991 · In this clip from 1977, publisher Bill Gaines talks about the real history of Alfred E. Neuman - the fictitious mascot and cover boy of Mad Magazine. Mad is an American humor magazine...

May 9, 2024 · Alfred E. Neuman as drawn by Norman Mingo for the cover of MAD #33 in 1957. This is a sample of some of the original artwork that will be featured in the “What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of MAD Magazine” exhibit at the Norman Rockwell Museum.

Dec 31, 2024 · Mad’s mascot Alfred E. Neuman (whose motto is “What—Me Worry?”) first appeared in 1954 on the cover of a Mad reprint anthology. He next showed up as a small piece of clip art in the mail-order catalogue parody on the cover of issue number 21 in March 1955, when Mad was still a comic book.

Apr 20, 2022 · The over one-hundred-year-old mystery caught the attention of a lawyer named Peter Jensen Brown who in 2013 started a blog called The Real Alfred E. dedicated to tracking down the origins of Alfred E Neuman.

Jun 17, 2024 · Smirky MAD offers a sassy counterpart to the seriously patriotic Rockwell. In its advertising for the exhibit, the NRM uses a homage to Rockwell’s famous triple self-portrait by the brilliant Richard Williams showing Alfred E. Neuman smiling into a gold mirror as he paints his own self-portrait.

Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke is slated to play Alfred E Neuman in a new Mad Magazine biopic. Oscar-and Emmy-winning director Jessica Yu (“Fosse/Verdon,” “Quiz Lady”) will direct the “What, Me Worry?” movie about the 70+ year-old iconic humor brand.