A review by markfeltskog
Al Jaffee's Mad Life: A Biography by Mary-Lou Weisman, Al Jaffee

Because my father subscribed to Mad Magazine when I was a child, I kept up with it through its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s. That experience exposed me to the brilliant Al Jaffee, whose role in shaping my day-to-day consciousness, even now, I cannot overstate. His biography, occasionally clumsily related (hence four stars), alas, in this volume, is an epic story. Today, at 94, he is still drawing the Mad fold in and living the artist's life in Manhattan. I can't speak for anyone whose demographic profile, like mine, includes a place at the bottom end of the baby boom, but my life is much richer for having encountered Al Jaffee as a child.