Mary-Lou Weisman
Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Mary-Lou Weisman’s books include My Baby Boomer Baby Book, Traveling While Married, and Intensive Care: A Family Love Story. Her essays, feature articles, interviews, and film and book reviews have appeared in many publications, including the New Republic, Atlantic Monthly, and the New York Times, and she has contributed essays and commentary to Public Radio International. She lives in Westport, Connecticut, with her husband.
Al Jaffee is an award-winning cartoonist whose work has appeared in more 440 issues of MAD magazine–a total unmatched by any other writer or artist–including his trademark, the MAD fold-in, which has been featured in almost every issue since 1964.
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Al Jaffee’s Mad Life
- By: Mary-Lou Weisman
- Narrator: Allen Rickman
- Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: January 18, 2011
- Language: English
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“One of the great cartoonists of our time.” –New Yorker cartoonist Arnold Roth
The remarkable story of one of America’s most prolific and beloved cartoonists, Al Jaffee, with dozens of original color illustrations.... Read more
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