Al Jaffee

Abraham " Al " Jaffee ( born March 13, 1921 in Savannah, Georgia) is an American cartoonist, best known for his work for MAD magazine.

Life and work

Jaffee began his career in 1941 as a draftsman and writer of the Inferior Man in the Quality Comics and later in the Marvel Comics. For MAD he came 1955. 1964 he invented the MAD -sheet (or in the American Fold -in based on the Fold -Out of Playboy ). The flyer that always appeared on the inside of the back cover is a picture that is only a more or less meaningless response under a given question. If, however, by buckling of the side covering the middle part there is a hidden image, and a new response is often funny. The leaflet is still a staple of MAD. In the German edition it was drawn a few times Ivica Astalos.

In addition, Jaffee contributed yet in many other contributions both as a draftsman and as a copywriter. This includes the well-known Kluge answers to stupid questions and articles about fictional inventions, of which there are some years later actually managed in series production.

Today Jaffee works for advertising and illustrated children's books, but also still appears in MAD, the oldest artist he is now. Only recently he made ​​it into the 400th U.S. edition, which surpasses every other.

Pictures of Al Jaffee

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