Mad Cropped Cardi

Hand-painted and customized cropped cardigan—an homage to Mad Magazine’s anarchic satire and its subversive political wit rendered through craft and reuse.

Category: Remade

File under: Political Satire, Cartoons, Post-Consumer Textile Art, Underground Magazines

Description

Thrifted cotton knit cardigan, cropped with a frayed hem and over-painted using post-consumer red acrylic applied with a repurposed spray-paint can. Washed by hand on a washboard using homemade soap, then customized with an Alfred E. Neuman patch made from stenciled canvas scraps. Three vintage buttons complete the piece—two political, one bearing the phrase “Don’t Go Away Mad, Just Go Away.” Together they recall Mad Magazine’s role in popularizing leftist satire and anti-establishment critique through humour and caricature. A genderless garment, finished with a Chains patch at the back neck.