An American cartoonist Al Jaffee is no more among us. Al Jaffee was a Mad Magazine’s award-winning cartoonist.
Al Jaffee dead at the age of 102 and still his age never stopped him from working, with a career running from 1942 until 2020, Jaffee also holds the Guinness World Record for having the longest career as a comic artist.
Jaffee died in Manhattan hospital because of multi-system organ failure as his granddaughter Fani Thomson told the news to the New York Times.
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Al Jaffee was notable for his work in the magazine called Mad which included his trademark feature, the Mad Fold-in. He retired at the age of 99. Jaffee told the New York Times on his retirement, “I had two jobs all my life, One of them was to make a living. The second one was to entertain. I hope to some extent that I succeeded.”
Jaffee was married to Ruth Ahlquist from 1945 to 1967 and they had two children, Richard and Debbie then in 1977, Jaffee married Joyce Revenson who was a widow. They lived in Manhattan until the death of Al Jaffee at the age of 102.
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