A nice profile of Mad Magazine's foldable fiend, Al Jaffee.
This is the Year of Jaffee. There's a new book coming out (complete with a foreword by Stephen Colbert) collecting Al's great newspaper strip, Tall Tales. He's one of three nominees and the odds-on favorite for the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award as Cartoonist of the Year. And he's going to be a Guest of Honor at this year's Comic-Con International…the first time he's ever attended that gathering.
Frankly, I think the Comic-Con should have nominated him for a Hall of Fame Award but the nominations are out and there's no Jaffee. I guess they had to leave him (and a few other worthies in their eighties) off to make room for young whippersnappers like Len Wein and Barry Windsor-Smith.