Unmad

Unmad
EditorAhsan Habib
CategoriesSatirical magazine
FrequencyMonthly
Circulation10,000–12,000
FounderIshtiaq Hossain, Kazi Khaleed Ashraf
First issueMay 1978; 46 years ago (1978-05)
CompanyUnmad
CountryBangladesh
LanguageBengali
Websitewww.unmadmagazine.com
OCLC948759641

Unmad, the Sanskrit word for mad or insane, has been used as the name of a monthly satire magazine in Bangladesh.[1] The magazine was founded by Ishtiaq Hossain and Kazi Khaleed Ashraf in 1978[2] and tries to ape MAD Magazine.[3][4] Bangladeshi cartoonist Ahsan Habib is its present chief editor.

Winner cartoonist with Unmad team at 40th year celebration program in Dhaka, 2018
A photo from the Unmaad 40 Year Celebration exhibition.
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Applications for iPhone and Android of the magazine was launched on 9 April 2013, by Reverie Corporation Limited.[5][6]

Publishing history

Unmad was founded in Dhaka, Bangladesh by Kazi Khaleed Ashraf and Ishtiaq Hossain. The first issue was dated May 1978.[7] The schedule was initially quarterly, but it switched to a monthly schedule in 1991. Normally, each issue is 28 pages, with longer special issues at the two holidays Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.[8] An issue typically contains between eight and ten "stories", each drawn by a different cartoonist. Management has not sold advertisising because of the effort required to do so, and to avoid editorial influence by advertisers.[9]

Writers

“Unmad's style is more about self-criticism, he is bullying himself, he is the insane person while everyone else is sane and by reversing the lens as such, the social commentary becomes poignant. But at the end of the day, the reader realises that it is not the case, and reality, in fact, is rather crazy. The writer is employing negative psychology to highlight the discrepancies of reality.”

—Mehedi Haque, executive editor, Unmad[7]

“This is a time of saturated information; but this information is not knowledge. The job of the cartoonist is to convert information into knowledge. The knowledge, then, has to be transformed into wisdom. Wisdom is what can be useful for society.”

- Ahsan Habib, editor, Unmad[7]

Artists

References

  1. ^ Tanim, Faizul Khan (8 May 2005). "Visitors flock Unmad show". The Daily Star. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
  2. ^ Khan, Zeeshan. "Zeeshan Khan illustrates the rebirth of comic books in Bangladesh". The Indian Quarterly. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  3. ^ Özdemir, Metin (2014). "Magazines and Newspapers Outside the United States". In Attardo, Salvatore (ed.). Encyclopedia of Humor Studies. SAGE Reference. ISBN 978-1-4129-9909-0. Unmad, meaning "mad (or insane)," is a monthly satire magazine in Bangladesh. It was launched in 1978, and it had a style similar to MAD magazine.
  4. ^ মার্কিন মুল্লুকের ম্যাড, ভারতের দিওয়ানা হারিয়ে গেছে, আমাদের উন্মাদ এখনও আছে!. The Business Standard (in Bengali). 12 September 2022. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  5. ^ "Unmad". App Store.
  6. ^ Lab Mimosa. "Unmad - Android Apps on Google Play". Google.
  7. ^ a b c Shahid, Sarah Nafisa (13 July 2018). "A mad, mad, world". Star Weekend.
  8. ^ Lent, John A. (2015). Asian comics. University Press of Mississippi. pp. 259–260. ISBN 978-1-62846-158-9.
  9. ^ Lent, John A. (September–December 1999). "Comic Art in South Asia". Asian Thought and Society. XXIV (72): 198.
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