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Allan Jaffee (born Abraham Jaffee; March 13, 1921 – April 10, 2023) was an American cartoonist.[1]

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  1. 102 relations: Adobe Photoshop, Adultism, Al Feldstein, Alter Ego (magazine), America (The Book), Arnold Roth, Atlas Comics (1950s), Beck, Bellevue Hospital, Birthday cake, Carbon paper, Cartoonist, Charles M. Schulz, Columbia University, Columbia University Libraries, Comic Art Professional Society, Comic book, Crucifix, Dave Berg (cartoonist), Desmond Devlin, Eddie Fisher, Eisner Awards, Elizabeth Taylor, Fantagraphics, Far Rockaway, Queens, Gary Larson, Guinness World Records, Gun violence, HarperCollins, Harvey Kurtzman, High School of Music & Art, Humbug (magazine), Invention, Jeopardy!, Jews, Joe Sinnott, John Severin, Jon Stewart, Lee Falk, Life (magazine), List of cartoonists, List of illustrators, Lithuania, Little Orphan Annie, Mad (magazine), Mad Fold-in, Marvel Comics, Mort Meskin, National Cartoonists Society, National Geographic, ... Expand index (52 more) »

  2. Harvey Award winners for Best Cartoonist
  3. Mad (magazine) cartoonists
  4. Mad (magazine) people

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe for Windows and macOS.

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Adultism

Adultism is the abuse of the power that adults have over children.

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Al Feldstein

Albert Bernard Feldstein (October 24, 1925 – April 29, 2014) was an American writer, editor, and artist, best known for his work at EC Comics and, from 1956 to 1985, as the editor of the satirical magazine Mad. Al Jaffee and al Feldstein are American satirists, Inkpot Award winners, Jewish American comics creators, Jewish American military personnel, mad (magazine) people and the High School of Music & Art alumni.

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Alter Ego (magazine)

Alter Ego is an American magazine devoted to comic books and comic-book creators of the 1930s to late-1960s periods comprising what fans and historians call the Golden Age and Silver Age of Comic Books.

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America (The Book)

America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction is a 2004 humor book written by Jon Stewart and other writers of The Daily Show that parodies and satirizes American politics and worldview.

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Arnold Roth

Arnold Roth (born February 25, 1929) is an American cartoonist and illustrator for advertisements, album covers, books, magazines, and newspapers. Al Jaffee and Arnold Roth are Reuben Award winners.

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Atlas Comics (1950s)

Atlas Comics was the 1950s comic-book publishing label that evolved into Marvel Comics.

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Beck

Beck David Hansen (born Bek David Campbell; July 8, 1970), known mononymously as Beck, is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Bellevue Hospital

Bellevue Hospital (officially NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue and formerly known as Bellevue Hospital Center) is a hospital in New York City and the oldest public hospital in the United States.

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Birthday cake

A birthday cake is a cake eaten as part of a birthday celebration.

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Carbon paper

Carbon paper (originally carbonic paper) consists of sheets of paper that create one or more copies simultaneously with the creation of an original document when inscribed by a typewriter or ballpoint pen.

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Cartoonist

A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images).

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Charles M. Schulz

Charles Monroe "Sparky" Schulz (November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000) was an American cartoonist, the creator of the comic strip Peanuts which features his two best-known characters, Charlie Brown and Snoopy. Al Jaffee and Charles M. Schulz are American satirists, Inkpot Award winners and Reuben Award winners.

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Columbia University

Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Columbia University Libraries

Columbia University Libraries is the library system of Columbia University and one of the largest academic library systems in North America.

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Comic Art Professional Society

The Comic Art Professional Society (CAPS) is an organization of professional cartoonists in the United States.

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Comic book

A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes.

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Crucifix

A crucifix (from the Latin cruci fixus meaning '(one) fixed to a cross') is a cross with an image of Jesus on it, as distinct from a bare cross.

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Dave Berg (cartoonist)

Dave Berg (June 12, 1920 in Brooklyn – May 17, 2002 in Marina del Rey, California) was an American cartoonist, most noted for his five decades of work in Mad of which The Lighter Side of... was the most famous. Al Jaffee and Dave Berg (cartoonist) are American satirists, Jewish American comics creators and mad (magazine) cartoonists.

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Desmond Devlin

Desmond Devlin is an American comedy writer. Al Jaffee and Desmond Devlin are American satirists and mad (magazine) people.

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Eddie Fisher

Edwin Jack Fisher (August 10, 1928 – September 22, 2010) was an American singer and actor. Al Jaffee and Eddie Fisher are Jewish American military personnel.

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Eisner Awards

The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, are awards for creative achievement in American comic books.

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Elizabeth Taylor

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (27 February 1932 – 23 March 2011) was a British and American actress.

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Fantagraphics

Fantagraphics (previously Fantagraphics Books) is an American publisher of alternative comics, classic comic strip anthologies, manga, magazines, graphic novels, and (formerly) the erotic Eros Comix imprint.

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Far Rockaway, Queens

Far Rockaway is a neighborhood on the eastern part of the Rockaway peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens.

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Gary Larson

Gary Larson (born August 14, 1950) is an American cartoonist who created The Far Side, a single-panel cartoon series that was syndicated internationally to more than 1,900 newspapers for fifteen years. Al Jaffee and Gary Larson are American satirists and Reuben Award winners.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Gun violence

Gun-related violence is violence committed with the use of a firearm.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.

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Harvey Kurtzman

Harvey Kurtzman (October 3, 1924 – February 21, 1993) was an American cartoonist and editor. Al Jaffee and Harvey Kurtzman are American satirists, Jewish American comics creators, mad (magazine) cartoonists, mad (magazine) people and the High School of Music & Art alumni.

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High School of Music & Art

The High School of Music & Art, informally known as "Music & Art" (or "M&A"), was a public specialized high school located at 443-465 West 135th Street in the borough of Manhattan, New York, from 1936 until 1984. Al Jaffee and high School of Music & Art are the High School of Music & Art alumni.

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Humbug (magazine)

Humbug is a humor magazine published from 1957 to 1958.

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Invention

An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition, idea or process.

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Jeopardy!

Jeopardy! is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Joe Sinnott

Joseph Leonard Sinnott (October 16, 1926 June 25, 2020) was an American comic book artist. Al Jaffee and Joe Sinnott are artists from Manhattan and Inkpot Award winners.

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John Severin

John Powers Severin (December 26, 1921 – February 12, 2012) was an American comics artist noted for his distinctive work with EC Comics, primarily on the war comics Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat; for Marvel Comics, especially its war and Western comics; and for his 45-year stint with the satiric magazine Cracked. Al Jaffee and John Severin are 21st-century American artists, Inkpot Award winners, mad (magazine) cartoonists and the High School of Music & Art alumni.

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Jon Stewart

Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz; November 28, 1962) is an American comedian, writer, producer, director, political commentator, actor and television host. Al Jaffee and Jon Stewart are American satirists, comedians from Manhattan, Jewish American comedians and Jewish male comedians.

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Lee Falk

Lee Falk, born Leon Harrison Gross (April 28, 1911 – March 13, 1999), was an American cartoonist, writer, theater director, and producer, best known as the creator of the comic strips Mandrake the Magician and The Phantom. Al Jaffee and Lee Falk are Inkpot Award winners and Jewish American comics creators.

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Life (magazine)

Life is an American magazine published weekly from 1883 to 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, a monthly from 1978 until 2000, and an online supplement since 2008.

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List of cartoonists

This is a list of cartoonists, visual artists who specialize in drawing cartoons.

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List of illustrators

This is an alphabetical list of notable illustrators.

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Lithuania

Lithuania (Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe.

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Little Orphan Annie

Little Orphan Annie was a daily American comic strip created by Harold Gray and syndicated by the Tribune Media Services.

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Mad (magazine)

Mad (stylized as MAD) is an American humor magazine first published in 1952.

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Mad Fold-in

The Mad Fold-In is a feature of the American humor and satire magazine Mad.

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Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics is an American comic book publisher and the property of The Walt Disney Company since December 31, 2009, and a subsidiary of Disney Publishing Worldwide since March 2023.

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Mort Meskin

Morton Meskin (May 30, 1916 – March 29, 1995)Social Security Death Index, SS# 071-16-1099. Al Jaffee and Mort Meskin are Jewish American comics creators.

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National Cartoonists Society

The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) is an organization of professional cartoonists in the United States.

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National Geographic

National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners.

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New York Comic Con

The New York Comic Con is an annual New York City fan convention dedicated to Western comics, graphic novels, anime, manga, video games, cosplay, toys, movies, and television.

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New York Herald Tribune

The New York Herald Tribune was a newspaper published between 1924 and 1966.

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NY1

NY1 (also officially known as Spectrum News NY1 and spoken as New York One) is an American cable news television channel founded by Time Warner Cable, which itself is owned by Charter Communications through its acquisition in May 2016.

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Paperboard

Paperboard is a thick paper-based material.

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Patsy Walker

Patricia "Patsy" Walker is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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Peace symbols

A number of peace symbols have been used many ways in various cultures and contexts.

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Peanuts

Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz.

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Playboy

Playboy (stylized in all caps) is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine, formerly in print and currently online.

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Provincetown, Massachusetts

Provincetown is a New England town located at the extreme tip of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, in the United States.

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Puerto Vallarta

Puerto Vallarta (or simply Vallarta) is a Mexican beach resort city on the Pacific Ocean's Bahía de Banderas in the Mexican state of Jalisco.

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Retro Report

Retro Report is a US non-profit news organization that produces short-form documentaries for historical context of current news stories.

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Richard Burton

Richard Burton (born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.; 10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor.

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Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine

Rusk Rehabilitation is the world's first and among the largest university-affiliated academic centers devoted entirely to inpatient/outpatient care, research, and training in rehabilitation medicine for both adults and pediatric patients.

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Sam Viviano

Sam Viviano (born March 13, 1953, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American caricature artist and art director. Al Jaffee and Sam Viviano are mad (magazine) cartoonists.

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San Diego Comic-Con

San Diego Comic-Con (also referred to as Comic-Con or SDCC) is a comic book convention and multi-genre entertainment event held annually in San Diego, California, since 1970.

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Satire

Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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Savannah, Georgia

Savannah is the oldest city in the U.S. state of Georgia and the county seat of Chatham County.

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Sergio Aragonés

Sergio Aragonés Domenech (born September 6, 1937) is a Spanish-Mexican cartoonist and writer best known for his contributions to Mad magazine and creating the comic book Groo the Wanderer. Al Jaffee and Sergio Aragonés are Harvey Award winners for Best Cartoonist, Inkpot Award winners, mad (magazine) cartoonists and Reuben Award winners.

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Shtetl

Shtetl or shtetel is a Yiddish term for the small towns with predominantly Ashkenazi Jewish populations which existed in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust.

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Social alienation is a person's feeling of disconnection from a group whether friends, family, or wider society with which the individual has an affiliation.

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Society of Illustrators

The Society of Illustrators (SoI) is a professional society based in New York City.

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Spain Rodriguez

Manuel Rodriguez (March 2, 1940 – November 28, 2012), better known as Spain or Spain Rodriguez, was an American underground cartoonist who created the character Trashman.

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Stan Lee

Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber; December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018) was an American comic book writer, editor, publisher and producer. Al Jaffee and Stan Lee are Inkpot Award winners, Jewish American comics creators and Jewish American military personnel.

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Stephen Colbert

Stephen Tyrone Colbert (born May 13, 1964) is an American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host. Al Jaffee and Stephen Colbert are American satirists.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

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The Colbert Report

The Colbert Report is an American late-night talk and news satire television program hosted by Stephen Colbert that aired four days a week on Comedy Central from October 17, 2005, to December 18, 2014, for 1,447 episodes.

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The Daily Show

The Daily Show (TDS is an American late-night talk and satirical news television program.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Far Side

The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist).

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Holocaust in Lithuania

The Holocaust in Lithuania resulted in the near total eradication of Lithuanian (Litvaks) and Polish Jews in Generalbezirk Litauen of the Reichskommissariat Ostland in the Nazi-controlled Lithuania.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Pentagon

The Pentagon is the headquarters building of the United States Department of Defense, in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. The building was constructed on an accelerated schedule during World War II.

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The Phoenix (newspaper)

The Phoenix (stylized as The Phœnix) was the name of several alternative weekly periodicals published in the United States of America by Phoenix Media/Communications Group of Boston, Massachusetts, including the Portland Phoenix and the now-defunct Boston Phoenix, Providence Phoenix and Worcester Phoenix.

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The Saturday Evening Post

The Saturday Evening Post is an American magazine, currently published six times a year.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Timely Comics

Timely Comics is the common name for the group of corporations that was the earliest comic book arm of American publisher Martin Goodman, and the entity that would evolve by the 1960s to become Marvel Comics.

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Trina Robbins

Trina Robbins (Perlson; August 17, 1938 – April 10, 2024) was an American cartoonist. Al Jaffee and Trina Robbins are Inkpot Award winners and Jewish American comics creators.

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Trump (magazine)

Trump was a glossy magazine of satire and humor, mostly in the forms of comics features and short stories.

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Typography

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable and appealing when displayed.

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Tzivos Hashem

Tzivos Hashem (literally, "Army of God"), is a Brooklyn, New York-based organization that was founded in 1980 as a youth group of the Chabad movement to encourage its version of Jewish customs and religious practice in non-orthodox Jewish children.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Vulture (website)

Vulture is an American entertainment news website.

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Will Elder

William Elder (born Wolf William Eisenberg; September 22, 1921 – May 15, 2008) was an American illustrator and comic book artist who worked in numerous areas of commercial art but is best known for a frantically funny cartoon style that helped launch Harvey Kurtzman's Mad comic book in 1952. Al Jaffee and Will Elder are American satirists, Inkpot Award winners, Jewish American comics creators, mad (magazine) people and the High School of Music & Art alumni.

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William Gaines

William Maxwell "Bill" Gaines (March 1, 1922 – June 3, 1992) was an American publisher and co-editor of EC Comics. Al Jaffee and William Gaines are Inkpot Award winners, Jewish American comics creators, Jewish American military personnel and mad (magazine) people.

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WonderCon

WonderCon is an annual comic book, science fiction, and film convention held in the San Francisco Bay Area (1987–2011), then—under the name WonderCon Anaheim—in Anaheim, California (2012–2015, 2017–present), and WonderCon Los Angeles in 2016.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Yahoo! News

Yahoo! News is a news website that originated as an internet-based news aggregator by Yahoo!.

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Zarasai

Zarasai (Ossersee) is a city in northeastern Lithuania, surrounded by many lakes and rivers: to the southwest of the city is Lake Zarasas, to the northLake Zarasaitis, to the southeastLake Baltas, and the eastLake Griežtas.

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Ziggy Pig and Silly Seal

Ziggy Pig and Silly Seal are fictional, talking animal comic-book characters created by cartoonist Al Jaffee for Marvel Comics' 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics, during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books.

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See also

Harvey Award winners for Best Cartoonist

Mad (magazine) cartoonists

Mad (magazine) people

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jaffee

Also known as Abraham Jaffee, Al jafee, Allan Jaffee.

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