MAD Magazine + Tom Hayden = SDS

Who knew? I didn't. But that's what Tom Hayden reveals, give or take a few details, in a blurb for a new book due out in January from Hill and Wang. "My own radical journey began with Mad Magazine," he says, "so it feels great that SDS should enter the culture of comic folklore ..."

OK, it's only a blurb. But I believe him. And in one of those perfect coincidences that border on the paranormal, and , who collaborated on the book with others, will discuss at , on Monday -- Dec. 10 -- which also marks International and the culmination of this year's . Pekar is best known for his comic book series He's also the subject of the with the same title. Buhle was the founding editor of the 1960s SDS magazine . They'll be joined in a panel discusion by Jeff Jones, an environmental activist who was a former SDS officer and one of the founders of the . Hayden won't be there, hélas.