The Art of Mad's Al Jaffee (w/ Fold-In Technology)
 

From the New York Times

Al Jaffee's Fold-Ins for Mad magazine, from the 1960s to the present, in interactive form.

I always loved LOVED Mad Magazine. I was fortunate enough to visit their offices in 1977 and meet with the publisher William Gaines. Al Jaffee was/IS a big part of its history. All hail Jaffee!


Al Jaffee


Two-headed Al Jaffee

Way exceptionally cool. I always loved Mad Magazine as well. My favorite of all time was the Mad Star Wars Musical. Loved it.

Awesome find! Mad was always fun, but the foldins were the highlight for me. Even when I barely got the jokes as a kid, I knew they were brilliant.

Wow, I love this guy. Remember "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions?" :)

Even when I was a kid, the humor of Mad Magazine never really appealed to me. But technical brilliance of the fold-ins was very impressive to me and every new opportunity I'd be at the nearby grocery store defacing one of their magazines.

Very nice interface from the times. Hope the entire archive is eventually made available similarly.

Yes, and next to Spy vs Spy, one of my favorite features. Damn my mother for tossing all my issues, I'd be making a fortune on ebay maybe?

Great find. Like others, I may not have understood the jokes, but I always appreciated the art. Obviously, Jaffe was a baseball fan.


To this day, I remember the one where a very conservative looking male was shown laughing and pointing at a long haired hippie saying, "The hair is so long, you can't tell if it is a man or a woman."

The retort was


And I was always a fan of Spy vs. Spy (though the comic appearing in the Sunday Funnies is nowhere near as good) and the comedy in the margins - just a little extra stuff thrown in for fun.

Especially if you had the Chinese issue #4 with Mike Tyson on the cover - WOW!

Well, that was nostalgic fun.


I stopped reading Mad Magazine in the mid-70's. It was an integral part of my childhood.



Le Sigh.

Anyone read a Mad in the last couple of years? I bought one last year and was dismayed to learn it's a full-color, glossy mag chock full of ads now.

ADS???

Thanks for the warning.

All you folks wanting a MAD archive, you've got it:
Every issue of MAD on DVD-ROM up through 2005. Co-incidentally, it's in my computer right now. Last night, I was reading through some of the 70's issues, looking up old movie parodies like 'Balmy and Clod," "The Ecchorcist," and of course, "Jaw'd."

Kevy Baby - I don't think the snappy retort you quoted could possibly be right. MAD was never that explicit or directly profane. (They were really pushing it with their infamous "flipping the bird" cover of issue 166, 1974. my mother banned MAD from our household after that one. Not that this stopped me buying it.) Such language would have been far more at home at National Lampoon, which, if you follow the link above, you will find also available on DVD-ROM.

Always loved Mad. I was first and foremost a Don Martin man. Also liked Dave Berg and the movie/song satires. Loved the fold-ins.

YEs! Al Jaffee is a guest at this years San Diego Comic Con. I look forward to meeting him.

MAD is now published by DC COmics for the past few years, so ads and color are the standard. Gotta pay for those Batman movies somehow. They're still funny but alot of the talent we knew back when have passed on.

I think they're still publishing "Classic Mad" which is reprinting the originals.

You are probably correct. I was thinking about that right after I posted.

Since I also read Nat'l Lampoon, that is probably where I got it.

I vaguely remember:

[to the tune of do re mi]
"Jaws, a mouth, a great big mouth,
Teeth, those things that kind of crunch,
grin, the way sharks say hello,
me, his favourite sunday lunch
...something something... in the jaws of death,
something something something
yeech, he's also got bad breath,
that will bring us back to Jaws"

:D not bad memory for an old fogey !