Al Jaffee, iconoclastic cartooning legend of Mad Magazine fame, dies at 102
by Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times
Apr 10, 2023
3 minutes
Al Jaffee, the iconoclastic cartoonist who created Mad Magazine's most enduring feature — the Fold-In — and served as the publication's longest-running contributor, died at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 102.
The cause was multiple-organ failure, his granddaughter Fani Thomson told The New York Times.
Jaffee's illustrations first appeared in the legendary satiric magazine in 1955, shortly after it transitioned from a comic book to a magazine. In 1964, he created the "Fold-In," a back-of-book feature
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