{"id":12691,"date":"2023-04-10T02:49:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T02:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12691"},"modified":"2023-04-25T02:51:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T02:51:36","slug":"al-jaffee-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/04\/10\/al-jaffee-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Jaffee Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/story\/2023-04-10\/al-jaffee-mad-magazine-cartooning-legend-dies-at-102\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Al Jaffee, iconoclastic cartooning legend of Mad Magazine fame, dies at 102<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>BY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/jessica-gelt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JESSICA GELT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lambiek.net\/artists\/image\/j\/jaffee_al\/jaffee_mad199_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lambiek.net\/artists\/image\/j\/jaffee_al\/jaffee_mad199_cover.jpg\" alt=\"Mad #199\" width=\"800\" height=\"1033\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>LAMBIEK Comiclopedia<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al Jaffee, the iconoclastic cartoonist who created Mad Magazine\u2019s most enduring feature \u2014 the Fold-In \u2014 and served as the publication\u2019s longest-running contributor, died at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 102.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cause was multiple-organ failure, his granddaughter Fani Thomson&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/04\/10\/arts\/al-jaffee-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jaffee\u2019s illustrations first appeared in the legendary satiric magazine in 1955, shortly after it transitioned from a comic book to a magazine.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-1995-09-22-me-48860-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">In 1964, he created the \u201cFold-In<\/a>,\u201d a back-of-book feature that became an instant classic at a time when other magazines were championing the ubiquitous fold-out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jaffee\u2019s idea involved folding a picture vertically inward to reveal a completely new image and caption. A fold-in from 1969 resulted in an image of Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Linus folded in from a piece of abstract art. The caption read: \u201cModern Art has taken some pretty wild turns in recent years. But no matter which direction it takes, it seems to be headed more and more toward total incomprehensibility.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/story\/2023-04-10\/al-jaffee-mad-magazine-cartooning-legend-dies-at-102\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at LAT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Los Angeles Times Al Jaffee, iconoclastic cartooning legend of Mad Magazine fame, dies at 102 BY\u00a0JESSICA GELT LAMBIEK Comiclopedia Al Jaffee, the iconoclastic cartoonist who created Mad Magazine\u2019s most enduring feature \u2014 the Fold-In \u2014 and served as the publication\u2019s longest-running contributor, died at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 102. The cause [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}