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Al Jaffee has died at 102
Twitter ^ | 4/10/23

Posted on 04/10/2023 1:53:50 PM PDT by Borges

The cartoonist who spent 65 years with Mad Magazine - mostly doing the "Fold-ins".


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: madmagazine
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To: windcliff

Ping


21 posted on 04/10/2023 2:31:52 PM PDT by stylecouncilor (Mostly peaceful.)
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To: Borges

I’m old enough to remember when having a copy of Mad Magazine was a daring act.

Many a copy confiscated by my mom.

Or the nuns.


22 posted on 04/10/2023 2:36:28 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: stylecouncilor

ping


23 posted on 04/10/2023 2:36:29 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: cgbg

As I remember it, it was reliably left of center.


24 posted on 04/10/2023 2:43:59 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: jmacusa
I was told in grade school that Mad Magazine was Communist.
25 posted on 04/10/2023 2:44:38 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Borges

Not making them like this anymore.

When I was 12 I got every issue of MAD when it came out.


26 posted on 04/10/2023 2:50:04 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: Verginius Rufus
LOL! I heard that one too.

In the ‘50s all comics books were a “Communist Plot!’’

Hence the The Kevauffer Commission.

27 posted on 04/10/2023 2:57:12 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: Borges
The magazine folded before he did.

Thanks for the laughs and great memories, Mr. Jaffe.

28 posted on 04/10/2023 3:01:07 PM PDT by silent_jonny (Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin, Joe. The feet are at the door (Acts 5:9) 9-18-21)
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To: jmacusa

I was an avid Mad Magazine reader until I started high school.
Then, a few years later when I went into the USAF a new magazine came out, which was even better: National Lampoon.


29 posted on 04/10/2023 3:03:35 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: rfp1234

Thanks for the reminder. MAD was a genuinely funny magazine that mocked EVERYTHING.


30 posted on 04/10/2023 3:10:36 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Borges
MAD magazine was part of my growing up in the 1970s.

I rushed to the newstand to get the newest copy (35 cents CHEAP!)

The magazine seems rather lame by today's standards but back in the day, you were the coolest kid on the block with a stack of those. Most parents would not allow them in the house.

My parents always had a rule that so long as I was reading, and not watching brainless TV (like pro wrestling on Saturday mornings), I could read whatever I wanted. Even if it was Penthouse or Hustler. I always told them I read those for the articles. And I did. The Penthouse Forum was something else in those days.

31 posted on 04/10/2023 3:10:55 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (5,016,040 Truth | 87,429,920 Twitter)
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To: cgbg

And being violently triggered.


32 posted on 04/10/2023 3:19:05 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SamAdams76

I thought all your stories were fake until...


33 posted on 04/10/2023 3:25:35 PM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: Borges

MAD Magazine Debuts Al Jaffee's Final Fold-In Art

MAD Magazine Debuts Al Jaffee's Final Fold-In Art

34 posted on 04/10/2023 3:55:58 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong

When I was a kid in the 70’s I used to Call ABC News Reporter Ted Koppel Alfred E. Neuman


35 posted on 04/10/2023 4:06:14 PM PDT by Pol-92064
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To: Borges

A person who made the world a better place, as did the rest of the early alumni.

RIP


36 posted on 04/10/2023 4:19:13 PM PDT by algore
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To: Borges

My boomer parents credit MAD for their remarkable sense of humor.
Having studied 20th c American history, I know there were other influences. Lucy, Ernie Kovacs, Sid Caesar, Jack Benny, Abbott and Costello, Allan Sherman, Marx Bros. ...innumerable others. But always, when people remark on how funny the folks are, they credit MAD.
I have never read MAD. Probably should. It may be that the mind absorbs influences better, from reading than from TV. They were saturated with tv, yet they cite this one magazine and I don’t think it was a daily.


37 posted on 04/10/2023 4:48:48 PM PDT by Buttons12 ( Do you not think an Angel rides in the Whirlwind and directs this Storm?)
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To: Borges

Memories from my childhood.

Dad had a subscription to MAD. When it came in the mail, the parents read it first and then we kids passed it around.

I was the firstborn, so I got it after my parents and then I’d give it to my brother.

It was considered common courtesy to smooth the fold-in page flat before giving it to the next reader.

R.I.P., Al and thank you for the laughs.


38 posted on 04/10/2023 4:56:31 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: jmacusa

I had a copy of Mad Magazine tucked in with my books one day when I was in High School Drivers’ Ed. We had crude simulators to practice on, then. Just before the session started, the instructor (who was also the basketball coach) walked past me and spotted “Mad” sticking out a bit, under my chair. He stopped, said “What’s this?” pulled it out, and I owned up that I had brought it to school. Coach said, “I haven’t seen one of these for a few years”, then something to the effect of “I’d better check it out” and retired to a small side room the instructors sometimes used while the classes were on the simulators. When class was over he gave the magazine back to me with a bit of a grin and advised me to keep it a little better out of sight in the future.


39 posted on 04/10/2023 5:01:24 PM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: Pol-92064

You had a lot of company - Hahaha!


40 posted on 04/10/2023 5:04:16 PM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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