Al Jaffee, the ingenious Mad magazine illustrator who was as adept at creating wacky cartoon gags as he was at producing caustic social commentary, and whose drawings, he cheerfully suggested, helped corrupt the minds of generations of young Americans, died April 10 at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 102.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
Al Jaffee, Mad magazine’s cartoon maestro, dies at 102
He was Mad magazine’s longest-serving contributor and proudly helped corrupt the minds of generations of young Americans
By Ali Bahrampour