'Al Jaffee, the cartoonist, best known for his work with the storied humor 'Mad' magazine, died in Manhattan this month. He was 102 years old. It’s no exaggeration to say that 'Mad' magazine helped create modern American humor.' -markgjudge
Jaffee was most famous for the “ridiculous fold-in,” the last page of the magazine that would depict a certain message yet become something different when you fold the page in on itself. Thus a butterfly with a short editorial below about “fabulous creatures being exploited” transforms into Elvis Presley — another fabulous creature who was exploited. Funny and clever, but also true and biting.
” Spiegelman said: “was an urban junk collage that said, ‘Pay attention! The mass media are lying to you, including this comic book!’”was telling us that the mass media were lying to us. Entertainers especially got scorched. In 1971,published a parody of Barbra Streisand. The liberal activist and singer was turned into the character Buddy, the Yiddish word for grandmother, and portrayed in the film,. The beloved and preachy liberal anti-war sitcom M*A*S*H became M*U*S*H.
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