[fwdude]

Man, haven’t heard that name in DECADES! Used to love his art in the magazine.

[Gnome1949]

Mad Magazine is one of those truly innovative American originals I greatly enjoyed in my youth.

R.I.P Al Jaffee and thank you for helping to brighten our lives for so long !

[Yo-Yo]

Rest in Peace, Al.

Mad Magazine gave me hours of entertainment in my formative Tweens years in the mid 1960s.

I don't know for certain this is one of Al's cartoons, but this Mad Magazine "You're a Genius If...But You're an Idiot If..." cartoons is one of my all-time favorites:

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It did seem strange that you could still see Jaffee cartoons in the magazine about 50 years after his glory days.

I saw a copy of Mad a few years back. It was a lot dumber and emptier than it was in the Sixties. It was printed on better paper and cost about 200 times as much as a copy did back then.

And Mad hated Trump. Surprising since his comment about Pete Buttigieg and Alfred E. Newman did more than anyone or anything else in the last 50 years (except maybe the TV show in the 90s) to remind people that the magazine still existed.

[Abathar]

Mad Magazine and Cracked were almost required reading when I was a kid, Spy vs. Spy especially.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I remember their movie spoofs. Really funny stuff.

Anyone remember the song It’s a Gas? I came in a magazine issue as a 45rpm record.

https://youtu.be/d1WLWArdXO0

[Red Badger]

Will he be folded into his grave?....................

[jmaroneps37]

Love Mad as a kid - all my friends did as well.

[TianaHighrider]

RIP 🙏

[servo1969]

[Nifty]

I would copy the art work style from the magazines. I liked Mad.

[KarlInOhio]

When my friends talk about what comic books they read as a kid I point out that I was reading social and political satire and coverage of international espionage. Occasionally one will get the joke and say “espionage? Do you mean Spy vs. Spy?”<p
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There are still some movies I only know from their Mad Magazine versions.
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[escapefromboston]

I think Sergio Aragones is the only one left and he’s still working. Mad had some of greatest comic book artists working for them .
RIP al jaffee
I used to buy mad at the grocery store when my mother was food shopping. I’d fold in the Jaffee back cover and then put it back on the shelf and buy a different copy because I didn’t want to ruin my issue’s resale value (which I never resold anyways)

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

A legend of my childhood has passed.

[9YearLurker]

Just shows that retirement will do you in!

[kabar]

A genius. RIP.

[pepsi_junkie]

Those fold in back covers were amazing, how difficult must it have been to make that intricate double image every single month without modern help from computers?

Still accurate too.

[Jeff Chandler]

I read Mad Magazine throughout my youth, eventually graduating to National Lampoon.

[Delta 21]

Loved the fold in. NEVER Retire!

[CIB-173RDABN]

He died too young...