RIP Mr. Jaffee

[IronWing]

Al Jaffee - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

I hope Mad has a fold-in ready to go.

 

[lxskllr]

RIP

 

[sandorski]

RIP

 

[Captante]

Just saw that.... I used to love Mad.

He had a dang good run @ 102! RIP

My guess is Mr Jaffee would prefer we had a good laugh in his memory!

 

[VirtualLarry]

RIP

 

[PClark99]

RIP another piece of my youth, remember going to flea market as a kid in the 70s and 80s and buying old mad magazines for a quarter each.

 

[scorpmatt]

F

 

[nakedfrog]

Just a week ago I was looking through a box of my old books for a specific one, and in that box were my old Mad paperbacks full of comics, definitely read a lot of his back in the day.
RIP

 

[Muse]

RIP another piece of my youth, remember going to flea market as a kid in the 70s and 80s and buying old mad magazines for a quarter each.

25 cents cheap

I subscribed in my teens. It would come in a plain brown wrapper.

Around 1997 or so I spotted a collection Totally Mad at a computer show and escorted it home (still have it). It is very nearly complete, I guess there were a handful of copywrite issues. It's a bunch of CDs and you can run the program from the HD rips.

I also have a hardcover copy of this book I spotted in a used book store:

Completely Mad: A History of the Comic Book and Magazine​

They evolved a lot over the years. Little was sacred. They loved to lampoon whatever and it was to me always a surprise what they would take on. They were really good at unveiling all the taboos. They would poke fun at almost anything and the artwork was just amazing. Don Martin was a favorite. Uniquely quirky stuff.

 

[Muse]

Mad Fold-in - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Explaining his original inspiration, Jaffee said:

Playboy had a foldout of a beautiful woman in each issue, and Life Magazine had these large, striking foldouts in which they'd show how the earth began or the solar system or something on that order -- some massive panorama. Many magazines were hopping on the bandwagon, offering similar full-color spreads to their readers. I noticed this and thought, what's a good satirical comment on the trend? Then I figured, why not reverse it? If other magazines are doing these big, full-color foldouts, well, cheap old Mad should go completely the opposite way and do an ultra-modest black-and-white Fold-In![2]

 

[shortylickens]

thought he died decades ago.