Al Jaffee, Mad magazine’s cartoon maestro, dies at 102

[Raoul Ross]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/04/10/mad-cartoonist-al-jaffee-dead/

[TonyK]

I grew up reading Mad magazine. It helped form me into the smart-ass I am today and I still use snappy answers to stupid questions for fun in situations occasionally.

[Snake45]

2 minutes ago, TonyK said:

I grew up reading Mad magazine. It helped form me into the smart-ass I am today and I still use snappy answers to stupid questions for fun in situations occasionally.

That's a fine, fine eulogy and I'm sure that somewhere, Al is beaming with pride. ?

[Mark]

My mom occasionally bought a copy of MAD for me, knowing their style(s) of humor were what I appreciated. She'd thumb through it every so often, and said it was well-written. She even bought me the infamous "finger cover" issue, which I discovered much later that a lot of outlets refused to stock.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[JollySipper]

53 minutes ago, Mark said:

My mom occasionally bought a copy of MAD for me, knowing their style(s) of humor were what I appreciated.

Coolest Mom ever...... Mine didn't mind me having them.

There was also a magazine called 'Cracked', that was similar to Mad, but was a bit more "vulgar" and not as much "tongue in cheek" humor as Mad....... Mad was so much more well written.

[Mark]

I saw (never bought) a few issues of Cracked, it didn't measure up to Mad IMHO. Neither did National Lampoon.  I bought one of the Best Of compilations, to get the send-up on the AMT '57 Ford kit.  Even in a Best Of deal, I only found a couple of other items even remotely funny.  The handful of regular issues of NL I checked out seemed to be just upper-class college frat-boy prejudice masquerading as cutting-edge "humor".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[espo]

When I discovered Mad and Cracked along with a few others I had to hide it since it was considered a propaganda from the Russians in our household.  I was raised in a very suppressed environment. Always like the Spy vs Spy series along the comments on current events as that was the only way I could find out what really was going on in the world.    

[ChrisBcritter]

Sad to see Al go, but he had a long long long run. My favorite of his: the saga of Ziglveit B. Shtoonk.

[iamsuperdan]

102. Wow!

I think I always went to the folding back cover first when I got my hands on an issue.

Definitely more of a thinking person's cartoon, as Mad always got a little more political, which my young self didn't really get. Probably why I was a bigger fan of Cracked, or CarToons.