Tall Tales

An anthology of the innovative vertical comic strip by the legendary MAD Magazine contributor - with an introduction by Stephen Colbert.Tall Tales was a one-of-a-kind newspaper strip that could only have come from the mind of Al Jaffee. While other newspaper strips are square, single-panel or multiple-panel horizontal gag cartoons, Jaffee, known for the Fold-In in MAD Magazine, once again altered the format of his work to create a vertical strip - the first, and last, in newspaper history. The original comic strip was syndicated internationally by the New York Herald Tribune from 1957-1963. This anthology 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.