Al Jaffee's Mad Inventions

by Al Jaffee

Wear on edges of covers. Tear on back cover. Pages are clean with no writing or marking.

192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published June 1, 1987

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 2 out of 5]

2013: I recently started picking up these old Mad paperback books, which I loved in childhood. they make me snicker, at least, but these Jaffee ones are really genius. his mechanistic, engineering mind and cynically comedic mind make for clever visual jokes.

2020: I am a Dave Berg-type MAD fan and at this point of live I find Jaffee formulaic and lacking in humor that reaches me any longer.