{"id":21658,"date":"2016-03-13T12:29:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T16:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=21658"},"modified":"2016-03-13T12:31:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T16:31:27","slug":"happy-95th-birthday-al-jaffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2016\/03\/13\/happy-95th-birthday-al-jaffee\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 95th birthday, Al Jaffee!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I find it hard to believe I haven’t shared this Al Jaffee drawing before—but perhaps I was saving it for a milestone moment like this, when I could wish the man a happy 95th birthday! <\/p>\n

\"AlJaffeeSketch\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Jaffee sketched out this self-portrait for me at a National Cartoonist Society Ruben Awards banquet held at the Waldorf Astoria in 1973, to which I was invited by Bill Kresse<\/a>, a cartoonist I\u2019d met during a class trip to the Daily News<\/em>. I was an annoying teen fanboy in those days (now I’m only annoying), yet he was willing to put up with me when I interrupted his chowing down on rubber chicken and presented him with my pad and marker.<\/p>\n

Forty-three years later, I am still grateful for his patience. (And for the patience of Curt Swan<\/a>, Gary Trudeau<\/a>, Paul Fung, Jr.<\/a>, and others that night as well!)<\/p>\n

So thank you for that, Al Jaffee—and for ensuring I own no copies of MAD<\/em> in mint condition due to my inability to resist folding and creasing those famous inside back cover fold-ins of yours.<\/p>\n

Happy birthday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I find it hard to believe I haven’t shared this Al Jaffee drawing before—but perhaps I was saving it for a milestone moment like this, when I could wish the man a happy 95th birthday! Jaffee sketched out this self-portrait for me at a National Cartoonist Society Ruben Awards banquet held at the Waldorf Astoria […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[567,151,18],"class_list":["post-21658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-al-jaffee","tag-birthdays","tag-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21658"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21665,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21658\/revisions\/21665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}