News about Al Jaffee

Al Jaffee, the award-winning Mad Magazine cartoonist, died at the age of 102. According to his granddaughter, Fani Thomson, Jaffee died in Manhattan from multiple organ failure on Monday. He had been retired at the age of 99. Mad magazine, with its wry, often pointed send-ups of politics and culture, was essential reading for teens and preschools during the baby boom period and was a source of many future comedians.