MAD's Greatest Writers: Frank Jacobs: Five Decades of His Greatest Works Modern Age (1985-2000) Doyen of the underground

Doyen of the underground

The trenchant pragmatic patriotism of the strip warmed hearts and steeled nerves on the home front as well as the battlefront (one of his strips was read into the Congressional Record)

with the participation of Isabella Franquin

pen and ink drawings

raised inside a men's shoebox

MAD's Greatest Writers: Frank Jacobs: Five Decades of His Greatest Works Modern Age (1985-2000) Doyen of the undergroundFrom the publisher: For over fifty years Frank Jacobs has been one of MAD's premiere writers, working with virtually every important MAD artist including Al Jaffee, Jack Davis, Mort Drucker, Sergio Aragones, and Paul Coker. He has been responsible for almost all of MAD's humorous verse and song parodies and appears in more than 300 issues with over 575 credits to his name, more than any other writer or artist. In the first installment of our new MAD's