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Tall Tales was an innovative newspaper strip syndicated internationally by theNew York Herald Tribunefrom 19571963. Whereas newspaper strips are square, single-panel or multiple-panel horizontal gag cartoons, Al Jaffee, known for the Fold-In inMADMagazine, once again altered the format of his work to create a vertical stripthe 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 ofThe Colbert Report.
Al Jaffee is the cartoonists cartoonist. Hes 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 hes done it before . . . and better.Sergio Aragons, cartoonist
This collection proves that not only has Al Jaffee always been funny, hes always been disturbed. Stephen Colbert, from his introduction
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