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Al Jaffee, iconoclastic cartooning legend of Mad Magazine fame, dies at 102

Mad artists and writers Sam Viviano and Al Jaffee attend the Mad Magazine Celebrates 65- Year Legacy With Legendary Creative Team Reunion at New York Comic Con on Oct. 6, 2017, in New York City.

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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