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Title details for Al Jaffee's Mad Life by Mary-Lou Weisman - Available

Al Jaffee's Mad Life

A Biography

by Mary-Lou Weisman
Allen Rickman
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"One of the great cartoonists of our time." –New Yorker cartoonist Arnold Roth
The remarkable story of one of America's most prolific and beloved cartoonists, Al Jaffee, with dozens of original color illustrations. Jaffe's career in cartooning stretches back to 1941—with early humor pieces for Timely Comics, a precursor to Marvel Comics—but the iconic artist remains best known for the brilliant Fold-In cartoons he invented at Bill Gaines's Mad magazine in 1964. The cerebral and sardonic illustrations have inspired generations of Mad readers—including Stephen Colbert, R. Crumb, Gary Larson and Charles Shultz—to embrace a firm and healthy irreverence towards the status quo. New York Times columnist and bestselling author Mary-Lou Weisman (My Middle-Aged Baby Book) helps Jaffe tell his remarkable story.

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  • Release date

    January 18, 2011

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780062084651
      • File size: 192620 KB
      • Duration: 06:41:17

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      The iconic and inventive cartoonist Al Jaffee has been delighting MAD magazine readers since 1955. Weisman, a onetime neighbor of Jaffee, heard most of his story over the years and convinced him to let her set it all down. Allen Rickman's engaging and comfortable tone works well in depicting Jaffee's life, particularly the accounts of his neglected childhood, which included twice being inexplicably uprooted by his mother from their home in Georgia and brought to Lithuanian shtetls just before WWII. It's unfortunate that the listener is unable to appreciate the sampling of Jaffee's cartoons that illustrate the print version of this book. Inexplicably, the audiobook ends with a dead stop that provides no sense of closure. W.A.G. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

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  • English

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