#fold-in

[goshyesvintageads]

Hershey Foods Corp, 1997

[tomoleary]

Al Jaffee MAD "Fold-In" Inside Back Covers Source

Pardon my digital folding.

[primaeros]

Took longer than it should due to shipping shenanigans, but my copy of Al Jaffee's book of Fold-Ins is here.

[usualgangofidiots]

Mad Fold-In (MAD #159, June 1973)

Artist & Writer: Al Jaffee

[mudwerks]

Mad magazine legend Al Jaffee retires at age 99 after a record-breaking career

Mad magazine’s iconic back-page Fold-In is about to fold it in. Finito after 56 years. Because Al Jaffee, officially the longest-working comic artist ever, has decided to retire at age 99.

So to mark his farewell, Mad’s “Usual Gang of Idiots” will salute Jaffee with a tribute issue next week. It will be one of the magazine’s last issues to offer new material, including Jaffee’s final Fold-In, 65 years after he made his Mad debut.

[demianmolinari]

A footbridge connecting and behind it the other one exasperates, reduced swamp and exasperating, polluted purely, wounded. Mountain-with-a-no will miss out when, in dreams, sky like any mood, it’ll visit me with its righteous chant. And I’ve never been able to get to the English landscaper and to the smell of that bridge. I leave alone my shoes and a balcony shows from Hopper the sad water and how everyone strolls to burst to tears. And they climb the unreal where everything is sloppy and I watch and when we get out we delight, directed by the quest in which no one will ever know how see any distraction until the polished mirror. Finding the footbridge of singularity disappears and, forbidden access, my molecules, by decadence itself and rust of its birth, in dreams they repeat.

[usualgangofidiots]

Mad magazine legend Al Jaffee retires at age 99 after a record-breaking career

(from the Washington Post)

(New York Times article here)

(Boing Boing’s article)