Al Jaffee’s legendary Mad Christmas toy feature

This Christmas, let us celebrate with one of comedy’s all-time classics: Al Jaffee’s “If Kids Designed Their Own Xmas Toys” from Mad Magazine issue #76, January 1963 (on sale November-December 1962).

Jaffee’s genius lay in presenting children’s crude toy drawings, then building and photographing them exactly as sketched—wonky proportions and all.

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