Al Jaffee’s Tall Tales

By tone | Published: June 4, 2008


Tall Tales was an innovative newspaper strip syndicated internationally by the New York Herald Tribune from 1957?1963. Whereas newspaper strips are square, single-panel or multiple-panel horizontal gag cartoons, Al Jaffee, known for the Fold-In in MAD Magazine, once again altered the format of his work to create a vertical strip?the first, and last, in newspaper history. Tall Tales contains the best 120 wordless strips out of over 2,200, scanned from the original files. The book features a new preface by Jaffee and an introduction by Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report.

 

?Al Jaffee is the cartoonist?s cartoonist. He?s a pioneer in every field, from comic books to book illustration to magazine cartoons. The worst thing about Jaffee is that every time I do a drawing, I find out he?s done it before . . . and better.??Sergio Aragon?s, cartoonist

 

?This collection proves that not only has Al Jaffee always been funny, he?s always been disturbed.? ? Stephen Colbert, from his introduction
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