The Onion’s AV Club sits down with famed Mad and E.C. editor Al Feldstein for a great interview about the glory days of comic book publishing:

All I worried about was how my income was going to be affected. I was a professional prostitute back then, and my services were writing and drawing comic books. I was Rosie The Riveter with a brush in my hand. That was my attitude: I did the best that I could, and wrote good stories that I was proud of. But I didn’t think one way or the other about whether I was contributing to juvenile delinquency. When they called me in closed session before the Kefauver Committee, I said exactly that. I told them, “The way to solve this problem is, if you don’t want your kid to read Tales From The Crypt, tell them, ‘If I catch you reading that, I’ll beat the shit out of you.’ You don’t have to censor the books and put us out of business. That’s not going to solve anything. Kids are going to find their outlets and their emotional releases in other places.”

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