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Tall Tales

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 Aragonés, cartoonist

 

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

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 128
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780810972728
  • Genres
  • humor, comics
  • Release date
  • 2008