Al Jaffee's mad life : [a biography] / Mary-Lou Weisman ; illustrated by Al Jaffee ; colors for new illustrations by Ryan Flanders with Douglas Thomson.
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 w...
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Language: | English |
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New York :
It Books,
[2010], ©2010.
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Edition: | First edition. |
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MSU: In dust jacket. |
Physical Description: | 226 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction
- Prologue
- The wild Indian
- Bed bugs and lice and everything nice
- 19th century boy
- Sleep faster, we need the pillows
- The rise of inferior man
- Mad days
- Our man from Mars
- Afterword.