Originally published at: Happy 100th birthday to MAD Magazine's Al Jaffee! | Boing Boing
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Nice to see someone who’s brought joy and laughter into the world reaching this milestone in reasonably good shape. Happy birthday, and thanks for all the fold-ins, inventions, and snappy answers.
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Here’s hoping he makes it to 200!
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Let others make piles of money, but there’s a great deal to be said for making a decent living doing something you love that brightens the lives of countless others. Said “others” includes me, pushing 70.
Thanks, Al.
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Nice! Check out that hair!
My dad introduced me to Mad as soon as I could read. It definitely influenced me, hopefully for the better. I always loved the fold-ins and, when I got older, Snappy Answers. Happy 100, Al!
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Al is still sharp as a tack! Happy birth day ole man!
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Lucky you, I had to very much hide mine!
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He officially retired just last year, and Mad has found a new Fold-In artist.
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Yep, Al Jaffee folded, rather than going all in.
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Happy Solar Return
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His early attempts at the Fold-Ins were not well received. It wasn’t successful until he went with a vertical rather than horizontal fold.
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Thanks very much Al!
One of the highlights of visits to my grandma’s house when I was a kid was sneaking quietly up to the attic and looking through the pile of old Mad Magazines that were stashed up there. The oldest ones were thin comic books.
If I got caught, I had to go play outside.
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May the next 100 be as good as the last! (…OK, maybe better.)
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Don’t look a day under 90!
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Mad brought me so much happiness as a kid. It’s just amazing to think that this man, whose cartoons I laughed at in 1959, is alive and enjoying life.
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I’ve seen more than a few 60-ish year old folk who look like 100 year old Jaffee.
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Yeah, he looks amazing. I wouldn’t have made the joke if he didn’t.
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The reference to “multiblade razor” seriously undersells the drawing of someone shaving with the “Track LXXVI” (this was in the days when the ‘Track II’ was new) which featured a link-belt of 76 blades with a handle on each end that wraps around your face so you only need a couple of strokes to shave. This in a “MAD looks at shaving of the future” piece that also included laser shaving (which also happened, though without the integrated freon canister) and a bunch of other stuff that seared itself into my 10-year-old brain and bounced around in there for forty years with no outlet UNTIL TODAY. Now maybe I can reclaim those neurons for something else.
Or maybe I’ll keep them. Thanks Al!
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I began reading Mad Magazine when I was in the sixth grade. The news dealer asked me how old I was. I told him he should be glad I can read! He laughed and sold me the magazine…for a quarter, I think. Don Martin was my favorite cartoonist.
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