USA: Itbooks / HarperCollins Publishers. Good in Good dust jacket. 2010. First Edition; Reprint. 006186448X . "Told through first-person reminiscences and more than seventy original illustrations, [this book] reveals the astonishing life story of Al Jaffee (1921-2023) one of America's most influential and beloved cartoonists. Jaffee's inventive work has enlivened the pages of MAD Magazine since 1955. To date he has pickled three generations of American kids in the brine of satire, and continues to bring millions of childhoods to untimely ends with the knowledge that parents are hypocrites, teachers are dummies, politicians are liars, and life isn't fair. Jaffee's work for MAD has made him a cultural icon, but the compelling and at times bizarre story of his life has yet to be told." - dust jacket. 226 pages. Remainder mark to bottom edge otherwise unmarked with light wear. Tight and square. Average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. "With a career running from 1942 until 2020, Jaffee holds the Guinness World Record for having the longest career as a comic artist. In the half-century between April 1964 and April 2013, only one issue of MAD was published without containing new material by Jaffee" - Wikipedia. A quality copy of this fascinating life story.; Illustrations; 8vo .

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Bookseller: RareNonFiction.com (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 863j0390
Title: Al Jaffee's Mad Life - A Biography
Author: Weisman, Mary-Lou
Illustrator: Jaffee, Al; Flanders, Ryan; Thomson, Douglas
Book Condition: Used - Good in Good dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; Reprint
ISBN 10: 006186448X
ISBN 13: 9780061864483
Publisher: Itbooks / HarperCollins Publishers
Place of Publication: USA
Date Published: 2010
Keywords: 006186448X, Jaffee, Al, MAD Magazine - cartoonists, Cartoonists - United States - Biography
Bookseller catalogs: Art; Biography; Judaica;

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