Al Jaffee's Mad (Yecch!) Monstrosities

by Al Jaffee

Mass Market Paperback

First published April 7, 1978

About the author

Allan Jaffee was an American cartoonist. He was notable for his work in the satirical magazine Mad, including his trademark feature, the Mad Fold-in. Jaffee was a regular contributor to the magazine for 65 years and is its longest-running contributor. In a 2010 interview, Jaffee said, "Serious people my age are dead."
With a career running from 1942 until 2020, Jaffee holds the Guinness World Record for having the longest career as a comic artist. In the half-century between April 1964 and April 2013, only one issue of Mad was published without containing new material by Jaffee.
In 2008, Jaffee was honored by the Reuben Awards as the Cartoonist of the Year. Cartoonist Arnold Roth of The New Yorker said, "Al Jaffee is one of the great cartoonists of our time." Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz wrote, "Al can cartoon anything."

Reviews

[Tom Schulte · Rating 3 out of 5]

2013: I've been collecting some MAD stuff here and there, but haven't really read anything since grade school. I thought I'd read this "Al Jaffee's MAD (Yecch!) Monstrosities", now. Still makes me chuckle. I like the absurdist jokes of Jaffee's written humor, but it is really the stylized drawings that I like.

2020: At most an occasional smirk. Don't even recall now ever finding it humorous...