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RIP - Al Jaffee
BustedFinger:
I'm sure most of you had heard this but thought that Al Jaffee deserves a post in a forum dedicated to satire and parody. Al Jaffee died at the age of 102 on April 10, 2023. Jaffee was the longest continuous contributor to Mad magazine and the fold-in inside the back cover is, IMO, one of the most iconic humor mag features.
How many times did you pull a Mad off the magazine rack and find that someone had already folded in the fold-in? How many times were you the one who folded it in!! I have to admit that I did that more than once!! I even drew a few of my own fold-ins back in the day kind of like a lot of drew our own Wackys!
There are plenty of articles about him but I found this one to be very interesting and informative:
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/j/jaffee_al.htm
BattleCaps:
I haven't heard that name in ages.
I was more a Cracked Magazine person that a Mad, but that being said I had a couple dozen Mad Magazine and loved the fold ins.
Thanks for the link.
Alexeirex:
One of my Mad heroes...RIP
A
freetoes:
RIP to a legend. I wondered how much of a factor the fold-ins were in limiting the number of back issues in pristine condition.
MoldRush:
--- Quote from: BustedFinger on April 17, 2023, 04:07:06 PM ---I'm sure most of you had heard this but thought that Al Jaffee deserves a post in a forum dedicated to satire and parody. Al Jaffee died at the age of 102 on April 10, 2023. Jaffee was the longest continuous contributor to Mad magazine and the fold-in inside the back cover is, IMO, one of the most iconic humor mag features.
How many times did you pull a Mad off the magazine rack and find that someone had already folded in the fold-in? How many times were you the one who folded it in!! I have to admit that I did that more than once!! I even drew a few of my own fold-ins back in the day kind of like a lot of drew our own Wackys!
There are plenty of articles about him but I found this one to be very interesting and informative:
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/j/jaffee_al.htm
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Thanks for posting this. I was not aware he passed, but did know he was at least well into his 90s, so the news while sad is not entirely shocking.
I was also fascinated with the fold-ins enough to try and create my own. Wasn’t that hard to conjure up a concept and gag, but finishing the art between the arrows with enough details and distractions to make the gag less obvious was the challenging part.
I received his autobiography as a Christmas gift a few years back. An interesting read for sure, but not at all what I expected - a very tough childhood living in Lithuania during WW2.
Al’s passing leaves very few if any of the 1970’s-era UGOI (Usual Gang of Idiots) still with us. I think possibly Angelo Torres is still around, but he may be the only one.
RIP to a unique talent and creator of many iconic images that float around in my head to this day.
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