Snappy

 Al Jaffee gives snappy answers to the stupid question: Is Al Jaffee dead?

No, he's just really, really tired.

No, but he's taking this coffin for a test ride.

No, he's just taking his retirement to a whole new level.

No, he's just waiting for the next season of MadTV to start.

No, he's just getting a start on that hole to China.

No, but he's hoping to spend the rest of his life as "extra crispy."

No, he has a bunch of pet worms that he's hoping to spend more time with.

No, somebody sutured his eyes closed.

No, "organ failure" just means he can't play Red River Valley at the talent show.

No, after he reached one hundred years old, he decided to turn around and go backward.

No, he just wanted to take a dirt nap. 

No, he wants to see what the Today show will do for him if he reaches two hundred. 

No, but he might be bored to death by all these questions.

Yes. Al Jaffee, who had only recently retired from his career as cartoonist and yukmaster extraordinaire made his final fold-in at the ripe old age of one hundred and two years old. He leaves behind a volume of work that will often be referred to (see this blog) but never duplicated. Some might say he outlived his most recognized home of Mad Magazine, since Al was there for decades through countless staff rearrangements and shufflings. Al Jaffee was always there. 

And now he's not. He stomped on the back pages of Mad Magazine as well as the Terra. He will be missed.