Al Jaffee, Mad magazine’s longtime cartoonist and creator of its signature back cover Fold-In, died April 10 in Manhattan. The Washington Post reportedHe was 102 years old.
Jaffee, best known for his self-portraits in Mudd’s cartoons and for regular series like ‘Snacky Answers to Stupid Questions’, was published in magazines from April 1964 to April 2013. was Mudd’s longest tenure contributor to appear. published in the period without new original works by Jaffee, According to the fan page I keep chasing that look.
Jaffee was active for 22 years before joining Mad. His 72-year career as an artist was recognized by Guinness World Records as the longest comic his artist career.
Born March 13, 1921 in Savannah, Georgia, Jaffee moved several times to his parents’ native Lithuania before finally settling in Queens, New York after World War II, during which he lived and worked there. I worked as an artist in the War Department. He returned to New York to contribute to a humor book published by Comics, the predecessor of today’s Marvel his comics.
Jaffee’s first one-off contribution to Mad preceded a 50-year serialization beginning in 1964. His most famous work, His Fold-In, was an instant success after Jaffee came up with his first gag in his April issue of that year.
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fold-in is Humor puzzles effectivelythe reader takes the back cover of the magazine, folds it in three, and connects the two outer thirds to reveal the secret punch line and illustration.
In several interviews, Jaffee has said that Fold-In began as a kind of satire of “gatefold” folding, high-quality color photography published in magazines such as National Geographic and, of course, Playboy. Over half a century after creating Fold-Ins, the feature has appeared in several pop culture references. ET extraterrestrial life formand as visual cues Danger! question.
Jaffee received a Reuben Award from the National Cartoonists Society in 1972, specifically for Fold-In. He won his 1971, 1975 and 1979 Rubens Prize in other categories. In 2008, he won the NCS Cartoonist of the Year He Reuben Award, and in 2013 Will He won the Eisner Hall of Fame Award.
Mad Magazine stopped publishing original content in 2019, but is coming out of hibernation in October 2022 for a 70-year retrospective that includes a tribute to Jaffee written by “Weird Al” Yankovic. rice field. Mud artist Johnny Sampson contributed his two-page mudfold-in special for the issue.
