Bibliograph

Al Jaffee's mad life, Mary-Lou Weisman ; illustrated by Al Jaffee ; colors for new illustrations by Ryan Flanders with Douglas Thomson

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Label

Al Jaffee's mad life, Mary-Lou Weisman ; illustrated by Al Jaffee ; colors for new illustrations by Ryan Flanders with Douglas Thomson

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Al Jaffee's mad life

Oclc number

522429361

Responsibility statement

Mary-Lou Weisman ; illustrated by Al Jaffee ; colors for new illustrations by Ryan Flanders with Douglas Thomson

Summary

Summary: Al Jaffee's work has enlivened the pages of MAD magazine since 1955 and made him a cultural icon, but the story of his life has yet to be told. Six-year-old Jaffee was separated from his father, uprooted from his home in Savannah, Georgia, and transplanted by his mother to a shtetl in Lithuania, a world of kerosene lamps, outhouses, physical abuse, and near starvation. He was rescued by his father, returned to America, taken back yet again by his mother, and once again rescued by his father, even as Hitler was on the march. Finally back in America at twelve, he struggled with challenges at least as great as those he had met in Europe. But his artistic ability saved him: chosen to be in the first class to attend New York City's High School of Music and Art, he found himself in a movement that would change the face of humor in America.--From publisher description

Table Of Contents

Contents: Prologue -- The wild Indian -- Wolves, bedbugs, and lice -- Nineteenth-century boy -- Sleep faster, we need the pillows -- The rise of inferior man -- MAD days -- Our man from Mars

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