Al Jaffee’s Mad Life: A Biography Audiobook (Free)

“Among the great cartoonists of our period.” -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 laughter pieces for Well-timed Comics, a precursor to Marvel Comics-but the iconic designer remains most widely known for the amazing Fold-In cartoons he developed at Expenses Gaines’s Mad journal in 1964. The cerebral and sardonic illustrations possess inspired decades of Mad readers-including Stephen Colbert, R. Crumb, Gary Larson and Charles Shultz-to embrace a company and healthy irreverence to the status quo. New York Instances columnist and bestselling writer Mary-Lou Weisman (My Middle-Aged Baby Publication) assists Jaffe tell his remarkable tale.