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.
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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Remembering Al Jaffee (1921-2023)
Updated July 2026. Al Jaffee, MAD magazine’s longest-running contributor and the creator of the iconic Mad Fold-In, died on April 10, 2023, in Manhattan of multiple organ failure. He was 102. Jaffee contributed to MAD for 65 years, debuting the Fold-In gag in 1964 and also creating the popular ‘Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions’ feature. He held the Guinness World Record for the longest career as a comic artist, with work dating back to 1942, and was inducted into both the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame and the Society of Illustrators’ Hall of Fame. His archive now resides at Columbia University, remembered as a formative influence on generations of cartoonists.
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