Editing Al Jaffee (section)

==Awards and recognition==
[[File:3.24.12ComicNewYorkByLuigiNovi37.jpg|thumb|Jaffee at the Comic New York symposium at [[Columbia University]]'s [[Low Library]] on March 24, 2012. Seated from left to right are [[Danny Fingeroth]], [[Dean Haspiel]], [[Miss Lasko-Gross]], Jaffee and Tracy White.]]

Jaffee won the [[National Cartoonists Society]] Advertising and Illustration Award for 1973, its Special Features Award for 1971 and 1975, and its Humor Comic Book Award for 1979.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.reuben.org/ncs-awards/division-awards/#comic |title=Division Awards Comic Books |year=2013 |publisher=[[National Cartoonists Society]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216074848/http://www.reuben.org/ncs-awards/division-awards/#comic |archive-date=December 16, 2013 |url-status=dead |access-date=December 16, 2013}}</ref> In 2008, he won the [[National Cartoonists Society#Reuben Award|Reuben Awards]]' Cartoonist of the Year.<ref name="E&P">{{cite news|url=http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/departments/syndicates/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003808284|title='Mad' Magazine Legend and Newspaper Cartoonists Among NCS Winners|last=Astor|first=Dave|date=May 27, 2008|work=Editor & Publisher|publisher=Nielsen Business Media|access-date=May 27, 2008|archive-date=September 29, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080929133740/http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/departments/syndicates/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003808284|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2005, the production company Motion Theory created a video for recording artist [[Beck]]'s song "Girl" using Jaffee's ''Mad'' Fold-Ins as inspiration; Jaffee's name appears briefly in the video, on a television screen.<ref>"Girl" (Beck music video), via [http://www.sparehed.com/2008/04/24/beck-in-a-jaffee-way/Beck "Back in a Jaffee Way"]. ''The Ephemerist''. August 24, 2008. Retrieved October 14, 2009.</ref>

The March 13, 2006, episode of ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' aired on Jaffee's 85th birthday, and comedian [[Stephen Colbert]] saluted the artist with a Fold-In [[birthday cake]]. The cake featured the salutary message "Al, you have repeatedly shown artistry & care of great credit to your field." When the center section of the cake was removed, the remainder read, "Al, you are old."<ref name=neil />

 '''AL,''' |                          |
  '''YOU'''|  HAVE  REPEATEDLY SHOWN  |
    '''A'''|RTISTRY        &        CA|'''RE'''
    '''O'''|F GREAT CREDIT TO YOUR FIE|'''LD'''

That was not Jaffee's first interaction with the comedian. In 2010, he recalled:

{{Blockquote|I got a call from ''[[The Daily Show]]''&nbsp;– they asked me if I would contribute a Fold-In to their book, ''[[America (The Book)|America]]''. I said I'd be happy to do it. When I was done, I called up the producer who'd contacted me, and I said, "I've finished the Fold-In, where shall I send it?" And he said&nbsp;– and this was a great compliment&nbsp;– "Oh, please Mr. Jaffee, could you deliver it in person? The whole crew wants to meet you." And that's where I met Stephen Colbert and [[Jon Stewart]] and all the writers, and they told me it was our work in ''Mad'' that inspired them. Not me, particularly, but us, generally ... They said, "Without you guys, we wouldn't be here." And I felt really good about that.<ref>{{cite web|author=Mazur, Dan |url=http://thephoenix.com/Boston/arts/111658-interview-al-jaffee/?page=3#TOPCONTENT |title=Interview: Al Jaffee [unabridged&#93; |publisher=The Phoenix |date=November 18, 2010 |access-date=2012-10-10}}</ref>}}

In October 2011 Jaffee was presented with the Sergio Award at a banquet in his honor from the [[Comic Art Professional Society]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2011/11/15/idiots-honored |title=Idiots Honored |last=DCE Editorial |date=November 15, 2011 |website=madmagazine.com |publisher=MAD Magazine |access-date=December 21, 2021 |quote=}}</ref>

In July 2013, during [[San Diego Comic-Con]], Jaffee was one of six inductees into the [[List of Eisner Award winners#The Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame|Will Eisner Hall of Fame]]. Jaffee, who worked for Eisner in his studio for one of his earliest jobs, was not present during the convention, and the award was accepted by ''Mad'' art director [[Sam Viviano]], who presented it to Jaffee at a later date. The other inductees were [[Lee Falk]], [[Mort Meskin]], [[Spain Rodriguez]], [[Joe Sinnott]], and [[Trina Robbins]].<ref>[http://www.comic-con.org/awards/eisners-current-info "Eisner Awards Current Info"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306115430/http://comic-con.org/awards/eisners-current-info |date=March 6, 2014}}. [[San Diego Comic-Con|Comic-Con International: San Diego]]. Retrieved September 11, 2013.</ref><ref>[http://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2013/09/11/al-jaffee-inducted-into-the-will-eisner-hall-of-fame "Al Jaffee Inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame"]. ''[[Mad (magazine)|Mad]]''. September 11, 2013.</ref> In April 2014, Jaffee was elected to the [[Society of Illustrators]]' Hall of Fame.<ref>[http://www.societyillustrators.org/Awards-and-Competitions/Hall-of-Fame/Overview.aspx "2014 Hall of Fame Honorees:"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815173248/http://societyillustrators.org/Awards-and-Competitions/Hall-of-Fame/Overview.aspx |date=August 15, 2022 }}. [[Society of Illustrators]]. Retrieved April 26, 2014.</ref>

In October 2013, [[Columbia University]] announced that Jaffee had donated most of his archives to the college.<ref>Grimes, William (October 6, 2013). [https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/07/arts/design/al-jaffees-work-is-going-to-columbia.html?hp "Ivy League Home for a Cartoonist's Vast Archive"]. ''The New York Times''.</ref>

On March 30, 2016, it was officially declared that Jaffee had "the longest career as a comics artist" at "73 years, 3 months" by ''[[Guinness World Records]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.de/world-records/419611-longest-career-as-a-comics-artist|title=Longest career as a comics artist|website=Guinness World Records|date=June 6, 2020 }}</ref> ''Guinness'' noted that he had worked continuously, beginning with Jaffee's contribution to the December 1942 issue of ''Joker Comics'' and continuing through the April 2016 issue of ''Mad''.

On April 9, 2016, Jaffee received a Life Time Achievement Award - the National Cartoonist Society's Medal of Honor in New York City.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020 |title=Al Jaffee, 99-year-old cartoonist, continues to sprinkle magic |url=https://www.tbsnews.net/glitz/al-jaffee-99-year-old-cartoonist-continues-sprinkle-magic-56527}}</ref>

Mary-Lou Weisman, a friend of Jaffee for more than three decades, wrote a profile of him for ''Provincetown Arts'', which she later expanded into the biography, ''Al Jaffee's Mad Life'', published in 2010 by It Books, an imprint of [[HarperCollins]]. In addition to reprints of his past work, Jaffee tells his life story to Weisman in an interview style.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010 |title=Al Jaffee's Mad Life: A Biography {{!}} Jewish Book Council |url=https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/al-jaffees-mad-life-a-biography |access-date=April 11, 2023 |website=www.jewishbookcouncil.org |language=en}}</ref>