Al Jaffees Mad Life, MaryLou Weisman
Al Jaffees Mad Life, MaryLou Weisman
List: $18.99 | Sale: $13.29
Club: $9.49

Al Jaffee's Mad Life
A Biography

Author: Mary-Lou Weisman

Narrator: Allen Rickman

Unabridged: 6 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 01/18/2011

Synopsis

“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.

About Mary-Lou Weisman

Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Mary-Lou Weisman’s books include My Baby Boomer Baby Book, Traveling While Married, and Intensive Care: A Family Love Story. Her essays, feature articles, interviews, and film and book reviews have appeared in many publications, including the New Republic, Atlantic Monthly, and the New York Times, and she has contributed essays and commentary to Public Radio International. She lives in Westport, Connecticut, with her husband. Al Jaffee is an award-winning cartoonist whose work has appeared in more 440 issues of MAD magazine—a total unmatched by any other writer or artist—including his trademark, the MAD fold-in, which has been featured in almost every issue since 1964.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sam

If you have ever seen or read Mad Magazine, you will certainly want to read this book. Al Jaffee had the most incredible childhood that helped him form a wicked, wit that turned into art.......more

Goodreads review by Jeff

Al Jaffee. If you don't know that name you certainly weren't the kid that I was. Al Jaffee. Dave Berg. Don Martin. Ring any bells? Arnold Roth. Mort Drucker. Sergio Aragones. If you don't know these, I can't help you. All these are MAD magazine artists, a mag as satirically subversive as punk rock w......more

Goodreads review by Rich

This was a decidedly different type of comic book creator biography than most I've been used to reading. It is well over half-way into the book before Al Jaffee's comic book career is really mentioned. It is a fascinating look at a very creative cartoonist who grew up in some very daunting circumsta......more

Goodreads review by Clem

There was about a three year period for me growing up in the 1970s when MAD Magazine was the bomb. From about 3rd grade until about 6th grade, nothing brought me more pleasure than a trip to the grocery store, heading towards the periodicals, and seeing that the new, bi-monthly issue of MAD was out......more

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List