JAFFEE FOLDS IN
Is this an obituary for longstanding Mad magazine wiz Al Jaffee we’re reading here?
“Not if you turn your head around.”
“No, you’re reading Scott Thorson’s.”
“It’s his life story, only with a death date added.”
This isn’t working. We’ll have to defer to his trusty Fold-In to figure out why he wasn’t more popular hereabouts:
OLD| MAD MAGAZINE ARTIST AL JAFFEE HAS DIED AGED 102. JAFFEE WOULD |
F|IRST DELIGHT AUDIENCES WITH HIS MARVEL ANIMAL COMICS AND NEWSPAPER |ART
| BUT HE MADE HIS MOST LASTING MARK UNDER MAD. THE CREATIVE FOLD-IN |WAS
NOT|ED FOR ITS DUAL VISUAL-TEXTUAL PUNCHLINES, AND HE DELIVERED FURTHER|
W|IT THROUGH HIS ACERBIC "SNAPPY ANSWERS" FEATURE. JAFFEE PENCILLED F|ORTH
M|ASTERFULLY IN HIS OLD AGE, WORKING FOR MAD FAR INTO HIS NINETIES. M|ANY
POI|SED TO AGREE THERE WAS NO MAD WITHOUT AL’S BIG LIST OF ACCOMPLISHME|NTS
OLD| F|ART |WAS NOT| W|ORTH M|ANY POI|NTS
That’ll do.
A quartet of Mad-men benefit, including an apt joker on the wily scribe for Eternity Tours alongside the expected geriatric theme teams.
Al Jaffee
13 March 1921 – 10 April 2023, aged 102
4 TEAMS (💀💀💀💀 4 POINTS, 🃏 (x1) 8 POINTS)