Friday, April 4, 2008
Pause and give tribute to Al Jaffee
Lots of folks are posting or raving about last week's Al Jaffee piece in the NY Times. I think it was definitely the media highlight of the week, Even better is the interactive galley of foldins. I remember spending lots of time as a formidable young lad with my Mad magazines trying to figure out how he made them work. The Times' Interactive gallery feature has a generous amount of fold-ins, the famous back page feature of MAD of which Jaffee has created over 400 and is still contributing them.
The best thing to do is click the links above and explore Jaffee for yourself. I just thought this was the coolest. If you haven't seen the article and gallery yet, it is worth your time to spend some time with a true American original still in high spirits after 87 years. You will probably have to give the Times an email address and a password, but this is the first time that I would promote taking a few minutes of that grief. Al and his fold ins are worth it.
posted by well-executed buffet at 12:31 AM
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