Tag: Al Jaffee
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 3/22/21: Happy 100th Birthday, Al Jaffee
Plus, Chris Conroy gets a promotion and a great tweet, Action Oscar Isaac, Paul Levitz's history lesson and so much more.
A Year of Free Comics: Exploring Karen Green’s “Life in Comics”
One of the highlights of my graduate school experience during my time at Columbia University was taking one of the first college courses seriously dedicated to exploring the literary value of comics. It was...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 3/15/17: Please muzzle Finn Jones
§ Nice Art: Francesco Francavilla gave us the Thing vs Thing team-up we've all dreamed of on Twitter.
§ Nice art supplemental! Takashi Miike has made a movie based on the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and it...
Watch Dean Haspiel, Vivek J. Tiwary and a hilarious video appearance by Stan Lee...
You've read about Dean Haspiel's moving speech at the Harvey Awards. Now you can watch it and more from the Harvey Awards and Baltimore Comic Con, all courtesy of Jeff Newelt AKA Jahfurry who took the photos...
Al Jaffee to get the Harvey Kurtzman Hall of Fame Award
Legendary is a word often over used, but Al Jaffee is truly a legendary cartoonist. Still drawing Mad magazine's fold-ins at age 95, he's been named the world's oldest working cartoonist, and now he'll...
Tribute: Al Jaffee is 95
Yesterday the great Al Jaffee turned 95. He's been contributing to Mad Magazine for a mere 61 years as the master of the "Fold-In," a few of which are presented below. Still active and charming as ever, Mr. Jaffee is one of the few people who can genuinely be said to speak with a "stentorian" presence, and I would just sit and listen to him read the phone book.
To do tonight: Al Jaffee, Anya Davidson, Hic and Hoc and more pre_CAB events
Whoops a LOT to do tonight! Fire up your Über! These are ALL tonight.
A Faintly Lit Light- Group Show
at 4:00pm - 7:00pm
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The Perfect Nothing Catalog
260 Johnson Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11206
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Comic Arts Brooklyn announces art exhibits
The last New York show of the year is on its way with Comic Arts Brooklyn taking place November 8-9th and this year the festival will be associated with several art shows and exhibits which all pretty top notch, including a very rare appearance by Julie Doucet, an Al Jaffee art show, a repurposed animation cel show and an exhibit of work by the Finnish collective Kutikuti. All FREE! Here's all the dates and times:
Al Jaffee archives going to Columbia University
Librarian Karen Green has done it again! She's gotten venerable cartoonist Al Jaffee (The Mad fold-in guy) to give his archives to the growing collection at Columbia University. :
Karen Green, a Columbia librarian, approached...
Columbia University acquires Al Jaffee archives
Anyone who has ever met him knows that they want to be Al Jaffee when they grow up. The master of MAD's fold-ins is vital and witty well into his 90s, with a vocal...
On the Scene: Sex and Violence? “Blame it on New York!”
A group of New York City inspired comics creators descended on the Soho Gallery for Digital Art on the 17th of April to discuss the good, the bad, and the strange elements of the...
On the Scene: Unpacking comics history at the Asbury Park Comicon 2013
The secrets of Stan Lee's hair and other tidbits from comics history at the just concluded Asbury Park Comicon.