[HN Gopher] Al Jaffee, King of the Mad Magazine Fold-In, Dies at...
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       Al Jaffee, King of the Mad Magazine Fold-In, Dies at 102
        
       Author : coloneltcb
       Score  : 81 points
       Date   : 2023-04-10 21:30 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | toomuchtodo wrote:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jaffee
        
       | singeezie wrote:
       | Wow. Respect for the guy with the longest career ever as a comics
       | artist, think over 70 years in the game. He began his career in
       | the comic book industry in the 1940s, working for publishers such
       | as Timely Comics (which later became Marvel Comics) and DC
       | Comics. Jaffee began working for Mad magazine in 1955, and over
       | the years, he became one of the most influential contributors to
       | the magazine. He created the famous "fold-in" feature for Mad
       | magazine in 1964. The fold-in was a back cover feature that
       | presented a seemingly innocuous image, which, when the page was
       | folded, revealed a hidden message or image. RIP to a legend...
        
         | DonHopkins wrote:
         | "You fold it, you bought it!" -Jeff Albertson
         | 
         | "Those magazines create a dangerous amount of laughter." -Marge
         | Simpson
         | 
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG_f0_jfHRU
         | 
         | "Wow. I'll never wash these eyes again." -Bart Simpson
         | 
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjlDDZkGONs
         | 
         | "Not Mad! That's our nation's largest mental illness themed
         | humor magazine!" -Homer Simpson
         | 
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zghcvq-pL7A
         | 
         | "So, we meet again, Mad Magazine." -Seymour Skinner
         | 
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MLa7WWwskg
        
       | dbelson wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/pmiVI
        
         | herdcall wrote:
         | I used to love Mad writers, each so different and brilliant in
         | their own way...Al Jaffee was no exception.
        
       | ilamont wrote:
       | His signature was all over the magazine (not just the fold-in)
       | when I was a reader in the 70s and early 80s, when he was in his
       | 50s. To think that he was learning from comics published when he
       | was a kid in the 1920s and 1930s, drawn by artists born in the
       | 1800s is amazing!
        
         | nemo44x wrote:
         | I loved Mad and Jaffee's work when I was a kid. I was going
         | through my grandmas attic once and I came across a stash of Mad
         | Magazines from the 60's which must have been my fathers or
         | uncles.
         | 
         | Needless to say they had a ton of Jaffee work in them and I
         | never felt so lucky as to come across that stash.
        
       | CharlesW wrote:
       | Since the article has no examples that show how this worked,
       | here's a CSS simulation of two fold-ins for anyone who hasn't had
       | the pleasure of folding the back page of their _Mad Magazine_ :
       | https://thomaspark.co/2020/06/the-mad-magazine-fold-in-effec...
       | 
       | (Note the bottom copy before/after as well.)
        
       | nemo44x wrote:
       | What a well lived life. The best. RIP.
        
         | jmclnx wrote:
         | Yes, may you rest in peace without any worries
        
       | hairofadog wrote:
       | There are few things that will whoosh me back to my childhood
       | critic-in-Ratatouille style faster than looking at a page of his
       | artwork. Cheers, Al Jaffee.
        
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