RIP OT: Al Jaffe - MAD Magazine cartoonist

[RUtix4me]

Loved his cartoons as a kid.

 

[newell138]

102!! What kid in the 70's did not have a copy of Mad Magazine?

 

[WhichReligionIsRight]

RIP to a legend.

 

[29PAS]

102!! What kid in the 70's did not have a copy of Mad Magazine?

Same with late 50's through the 60's!

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

I asked a AI art maker (hotpot.ai) to make ""Mad Magazine" cover with Death Grim Reaper and Al Jaffee".. using a lineart sample.. this is what it made..

this one is "Cartoonist Al Jaffee drawing Alfred E Neuman"

looks like it will be awhile before the likes of AL Jaffee can be replaced by AI

 

[newwavedave1]

Mad Magazine, what a blast from the past!

 

[hankee18]

Snappy answers to stupid questions has had an effect on me to this day ha ha

 

[MADHAT1]

 

[Knight Shift]

He worked 77 years until 2020, when he was 99.

From the Rolling Stone link: "Jaffee explained the origins of the segment, saying it occurred to him when he was trying to fix an antenna on the roof of his house.


“Suddenly, I heard my son climbing up this ladder. He asked me a question that he asked every time he came home from school: ‘Where’s Mom?’ And I answered, ‘I killed her and I’m stuffing her down this chimney.’ He knew I was kidding, obviously, but I thought about this afterward, and it occurred to me that there must be a million times a day we all get asked questions to which you either don’t know the answer or it’s a pointless question. Up on the roof, how the hell would I know where Mom was?” "

 

[S.W.A.I.N]

Snappy answers to stupid questions has had an effect on me to this day ha ha

“Is this the back of the line?”
“No, this is the front, we’re all just standing backwards.” My Dad used that one multiple times….

 

[DJ Spanky]

I never bought one, but I remember looking at it back in the 70's. Al Jaffee was the one who created the fold in concept at the back of the magazine. Always loved that as a kid.