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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Entertainment
Jessica Gelt

Al Jaffee, iconoclastic cartooning legend of Mad Magazine fame, dies at 102

Al Jaffee, the iconoclastic cartoonist who created Mad Magazine's most enduring feature — the Fold-In — and served as the publication's longest-running contributor, died at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 102.

The cause was multiple-organ failure, his granddaughter Fani Thomson told The New York Times.

Jaffee's illustrations first appeared in the legendary satiric magazine in 1955, shortly after it transitioned from a comic book to a magazine. In 1964, he created the "Fold-In," a back-of-book feature that became an instant classic at a time when other magazines were championing the ubiquitous fold-out.

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