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{{Short description|Monthly satire magazine in Bangladesh}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}
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| title           = Unmad
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| editor          = [[Ahsan Habib (cartoonist)|Ahsan Habib]]
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| category        = [[Satirical]] magazine
| frequency       = Monthly
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| circulation     = 10,000–12,000
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| founder         = [[Ishtiaq Hossain]], [[Kazi Khaleed Ashraf]]
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| firstdate       = {{Start date and age|1978|05}}
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| company         = Unmad
| country         = [[Bangladesh]]
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| language        = [[Bengali language|Bengali]]
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| oclc            = 948759641
| website         = {{URL|www.unmadmagazine.com}}
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'''''Unmad''''', the [[Sanskrit]] word for ''mad'' or ''insane'', has been used as the name of a monthly satire magazine in [[Bangladesh]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Tanim |first=Faizul Khan |date=8 May 2005 |title=Visitors flock Unmad show |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/2005/05/08/d50508250293.htm |work=The Daily Star |accessdate=9 September 2012}}</ref> The magazine was founded by [[Ishtiaq Hossain]] and [[Kazi Khaleed Ashraf]] in 1978<ref>{{cite news |last=Khan |first=Zeeshan |title=Zeeshan Khan illustrates the rebirth of comic books in Bangladesh |url=http://indianquarterly.com/graphic-content/ |work=The Indian Quarterly |accessdate=3 January 2016}}</ref> and tries to ape [[Mad (magazine)|''MAD'' Magazine]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Özdemir |first=Metin |date=2014 |chapter=Magazines and Newspapers Outside the United States |editor-last=Attardo |editor-first=Salvatore |title=Encyclopedia of Humor Studies |publisher=SAGE Reference |isbn=978-1-4129-9909-0 |quote=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.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-09-12 |script-title=bn:মার্কিন মুল্লুকের ম্যাড, ভারতের দিওয়ানা হারিয়ে গেছে, আমাদের উন্মাদ এখনও আছে! |url=https://www.tbsnews.net/bangla/%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0/news-details-110278 |access-date=2022-09-12 |work=The Business Standard |language=bn}}</ref> Bangladeshi cartoonist [[Ahsan Habib (Cartoonist)|Ahsan Habib]] is its present chief editor.
[[File:Unmad 40th year celebration in Dhaka, 2018 (28).jpg|thumb|250px|Winner cartoonist with Unmad team at 40th year celebration program in Dhaka, 2018]]
[[File:উন্মাদদের বড় ভাই.jpg|thumb|A photo from the ''Unmaad 40 Year Celebration'' exhibition.]]
[[File:The Global Happiness Challenge No.06.jpg|thumb|The Global Happiness Challenge No.06]]
Applications for [[iPhone]] and [[Android (operating system)|Android]] of the magazine was launched on 9 April 2013, by [[Reverie Corporation Limited]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/unmad/id629497525?ls=1&mt=8 |title=Unmad |work=App Store}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xChinmoy.reverie.unmad#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDIxMiwiY29tLnhDaGlubW95LnJldmVyaWUudW5tYWQiXQ |title=Unmad - Android Apps on Google Play |author=Lab Mimosa |publisher=Google}}</ref>
==Publishing history==
''Unmad'' was founded in Dhaka, Bangladesh by [[Kazi Khaleed Ashraf]] and Ishtiaq Hossain. The first issue was dated May 1978.<ref name="sw13Jul2018">{{cite news |last=Shahid |first=Sarah Nafisa |date=13 July 2018 |title=A mad, mad, world |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/star-weekend/longform/mad-mad-world-1604560 |work=Star Weekend}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lent |first1=John A. |year=2015 |title=Asian comics |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |pages=259–260 |isbn=978-1-62846-158-9}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lent |first=John A. |title=Comic Art in South Asia |journal=Asian Thought and Society |date=September–December 1999 |volume=XXIV |issue=72 |pages=198}}</ref>
==Writers==
{{quote box|quote=“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.”|source=—Mehedi Haque, executive editor, Unmad<ref name="sw13Jul2018" /> |width=30% |align=left |style=padding:8px;}}
{{quote box|quote=“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.”|source=- [[Ahsan Habib (cartoonist)|Ahsan Habib]], editor, Unmad<ref name="sw13Jul2018" /> |width=30% |align=left |style=padding:8px;}}
* [[Ahsan Habib (cartoonist)|Ahsan Habib]]
* [[Ishtiaq Hossain]]
* [[Kazi Khaleed Ashraf]]
==Artists==
* [[Ahsan Habib (cartoonist)|Ahsan Habib]]
* [[Ishtiaq Hossain]]
* [[Kazi Khaleed Ashraf]]
* Mehedi Haque
* Tanmoy
* Arif Iqbal
* Faridur Reza Razib
* Hasib Kamal
* Eeha Nawar
* Biplob
* Muhammad Ayan
==References==
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==External links==
*{{URL|www.unmadmagazine.com}}
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