102 years old, and still gone much too soon. RIP to one of my all-time heroes, the great Al Jaffee. pic.twitter.com/hJ4XhcoCGl
— Al Yankovic (@alyankovic) April 10, 2023
April 12, 2023
"But he's also responsible for my single most-favorite one-panel cartoon ever."
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Jaffee is one of the immortals!
An all-time great. Right up there with Crumb and Lee. RIP.
Jaffe was responsible for my single most favorite MAD article; Basebrawl
Big RIP! Glad he got to live a very long life.
Prominent in my second child periodical, after Highlights. Held court in my heart until Larson and Watterson came along...
I'm at work, and laughed quietly at the Dennis the Menace gag until I produced tears. It really is a perfect one-panel comic.
Genius
Most of the time I did not know what Mad was parodying but I still found the drawings mesmerizing, and I felt a little grown up enjoying them.
Once more, I agree with Robert Cook and Space Mountain.
A long life, well lived. Role model. Thanks for everything.
Jaffee's Fold-Ins were the best!
R.I.P.
I remember that panel as well. It was part of a series of commemorative postage stamps we'd like to see.
I hope he gets to see his mother in heaven and ask "Ma, what were you thinking?"
is it Safe to Say, that MAD magazine would need 'trigger warnings' today?
At last I agree with Robert Cook! Al Jaffe, RIP.
Wilson's "I Paint What I See." Larsen. All geniuses.
RIP AJ.
"This one cartoon may be the sole reason why so many of the songs in my catalog are cited and violent."
Can't say Weird Al's opus includes either twisted or violent content, seems harmless, hilarious, and perceptive to me. This is probably just Yankovic being his satirical self.
On the subject of dark humor, the enemies of free expression have always made the ludicrous claim that speech is equivalent to violence, be it the prudes who forced the creation of the Comics Code Authority in 1954 or the shameful display at Stanford a few weeks back. Art, music, and drama can depict violence and frequently does, but the conflation of the fictional doings of a fictional character like John Wick with the deeds of a sexually confused woman in Nashville isn't just mad, it's evil.
It's no exaggeration to say I grew-up with Jaffe and MAD Magazine.
Well, maybe not exactly mature...
Jaffe also produced a series of vertically oriented comics for the NY Herald Tribute that ran in the 50s and 60s. I have the collection in book form.
Fink Along With Mad 1963...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asaN8GWPsRA
Played the grooves off of this one. Came with the magazine - another First?
R.I.P. Al Jaffe
The dots and dashes above the panels were morse code... "By Prohias"
Above Spy vs Spy...
My Bad.
All hail Mad Magazine. This reminds me of why I love Althouse. Humor was unrestricted in the 1960s. Politically Correct was a joke that had not yet been weaponized by EDU scum.
"Can't say Weird Al's opus includes either twisted or violent content, seems harmless, hilarious, and perceptive to me. This is probably just Yankovic being his satirical self."
It would be an amazing thing if Weird Al's final creative period goes deep into dark and violent material. The mask comes of, and we realize he was a psychopath all along. It could be the pop music equivalent of Goya creating his "dark paintings."
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