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Sunday, March 30, 2008
Turn on, drop out, fold in
Mark Evanier points the way to an awesome feature on the New York Times' website where you can use Flash to fold archived reproductions of Al Jafe's fold-in backs covers of MAD.
Whenever I'm in Mike's store I pick up a few copies of MAD from way back. Jaffe always strikes me as the MAD cartoonist with the sharpest political edge. All his stuff with Hawk and Dove or writing about the generation gap is so real, it's hard to believe this is a humor magazine. It's humor dark as night in Jaffe's hands. The fold-in's are this weird mix of a childhood activity and the problems of adulthood. You do the fold-in correctly (and I never really could) and you're rewarded with the horrors of Vietnam or how corrupt Johnson/Nixon/Bush/Clinton/Bush/Whoever is. It's a mindfuck but one I love.
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