Mad magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee, who died Monday in New York at 102, tapped the power of counterculture humor.
To appreciate Jaffee, among the most beloved of the cartoonists behind the legendary Mad magazine, was to understand that although he pretended to wear the mask of juvenile mockery, he was a beautiful blend of intelligence and irreverence, perfectly designed to appeal to the sweet spot of adolescence. To discover the genius cartoon works of Jaffee at any point near puberty was to have your brain awakened to just what was going on behind the curtain called adulthood.
perhaps there would have been no “Saturday Night Live” or “The Simpsons,” no the Onion or “The Daily Show.” “I was completely obsessed with Mad, and Al Jaffee was one of my all-time heroes,” “Weird Al” Yankovic told The Post on Tuesday. “Jaffee warped me at an impressionable young age and left an indelible mark on my brain,” said Yankovic, who once guest-edited an issue of Mad. “He was arguably a comic artist for a longer period of time than anyone else in history, and yet he never once lost his delight in juvenile irreverence or his sick and twisted sense of humor. If anybody working in comedy today tells you they weren’t influenced by Al Jaffee in some way, they’re obviously lying.
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