Several folks have sent me this photo which is making the rounds of the Internet and it obviously belongs on this blog. It's cartoonist Al Jaffee, who at age 98 has actually managed to outlive MAD Magazine, to which he has been contributing since 1955.
I have this thought that when someone in the vast Time-Warner hierarchy, probably in the Really Bad Ideas division, decided MAD should go all-reprint, someone else said, "Hmm…how about if we wait to do that until Al Jaffee retires?" And the first person said, "But what if he keeps working for another twenty years?"
Look at that photo. Could you be the person who would decide to put that man out of a job? I'll bet if you folded-in the sign he's holding, it would read "Will Give Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions for Food."
I still have the feeling MAD will be back before anyone expects…maybe before the folks currently controlling it at Time-Warner suspect.