Al Jaffee, king of the Mad Magazine fold-in, has died
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#4https://archive.ph/pmiVI
I used to love Mad writers, each so different and brilliant in their own way...Al Jaffee was no exception.
Re: Al Jaffee, king of the Mad Magazine fold-in, has died
#5Wow. Respect for the guy with the longest career ever as a comics artist, think over 70 years in the game. He began his career in the comic book industry in the 1940s, working for publishers such as Timely Comics (which later became Marvel Comics) and DC Comics.
Jaffee began working for Mad magazine in 1955, and over the years, he became one of the most influential contributors to the magazine.
He created the famous "fold-in" feature for Mad magazine in 1964. The fold-in was a back cover feature that presented a seemingly innocuous image, which, when the page was folded, revealed a hidden message or image. RIP to a legend…
Re: Al Jaffee, king of the Mad Magazine fold-in, has died
#6Wow. Respect for the guy with the longest career ever as a comics artist, think over 70 years in the game. He began his career in the comic book industry in the 1940s, working for publishers such as Timely Comics (which later became Marvel Comics) and DC Comics. Jaffee began working for Mad magazine in 1955, and over the years, he became one of the most influential contributors to the magazine. He created the famous…
"You fold it, you bought it!" -Jeff Albertson
"Those magazines create a dangerous amount of laughter." -Marge Simpson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG_f0_jfHRU
"Wow. I'll never wash these eyes again." -Bart Simpson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjlDDZkGONs
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zghcvq-pL7A
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Re: Al Jaffee, king of the Mad Magazine fold-in, has died
#7His signature was all over the magazine (not just the fold-in) when I was a reader in the 70s and early 80s, when he was in his 50s. To think that he was learning from comics published when he was a kid in the 1920s and 1930s, drawn by artists born in the 1800s is amazing!
Re: Al Jaffee, king of the Mad Magazine fold-in, has died
#8Since the article has no examples that show how this worked, here's a CSS simulation of two fold-ins for anyone who hasn't had the pleasure of folding the back page of their Mad Magazine: https://thomaspark.co/2020/06/the-mad-magazine-fold-in-effec...
(Note the bottom copy before/after as well.)
Re: Al Jaffee, king of the Mad Magazine fold-in, has died
#9What a well lived life. The best. RIP.
Re: Al Jaffee, king of the Mad Magazine fold-in, has died
#10His signature was all over the magazine (not just the fold-in) when I was a reader in the 70s and early 80s, when he was in his 50s. To think that he was learning from comics published when he was a kid in the 1920s and 1930s, drawn by artists born in the 1800s is amazing!
I loved Mad and Jaffee’s work when I was a kid. I was going through my grandmas attic once and I came across a stash of Mad Magazines from the 60’s which must have been my fathers or uncles.
Needless to say they had a ton of Jaffee work in them and I never felt so lucky as to come across that stash.