Loved Mad Magazine when it was 50 Cents, Cheap..........

Al Jaffee, iconic Mad Magazine cartoonist who also inked Chabad comic, dies at 102

Perhaps the greatest influence on Al Jaffee, known to readers of Mad Magazine as the creator of the “Fold-In,” was the time he spent living in a Lithuanian shtetl as a child.

Jaffee had been born in Savannah, Georgia, but returned to his mother’s native country with her after she became disillusioned by the irreligious character of life in America. Living in her small town, Zarasai, from ages 6 to 12, he became steeped in both the Yiddish and the “anti-adultism” that would infuse his work. He also gained fluency in comics through strips mailed by father, who remained in the United States.

https://www.jta.org/2023/04/11/obituarie...HS3v1iZEMg

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Wants to join the "cereal box" dating service. I've dated enough flakes and nuts...all I want is the prize now.

Wow, 102.. Mad Magazine and Cracked were the alt-comics of choice for many of us in the late 60's and early 70's. Cartoonists in general seem to be fewer and far between than they used to be, but I'm guessing that's because of the rise of public memes.

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"Remember Red, Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."  - Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption