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[Al Jaffee] started at Mad not as an artist but as a writer….Eventually, he said, the sketches he used to illustrate his ideas caught the eye of Nick Meglin, an editor, who realized they were funnier than what the artists were producing….So Mr. Jaffee became a writer-artist. And in 1964 he had an idea. Playboy, Life and other magazines had their lavish color fold-outs, so Mad, he thought, should parody them with a cheap black-and-white fold-in.
I'm not sure that Al Jaffee's amazing 'fold-ins' for Mad Magazine really have anything to do with my goofy poems, but the textual parts sure do spark my imagination:
It's a gimmick, but a beautifully executed one that includes content and illuminates something. Pixplant for mac os. Which brings up the question, 'If something starts as a gimmick but produces the effect of art, is it still a gimmick?'
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Absolutely Mad Magazine 50 Years
Absolutely Mad Magazine - 50+ Years
- NyTimes: 'A Veteran Mad Man Remains in the Fold'
- NyTimes: 'Fold-Ins, Past and Present (Interactive feature)'
