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Al Feldstein

Al (Albert) Bernhard Feldstein (1925 - 2014) was active/lived in Connecticut, Montana.  Al Feldstein is known for Comic book art, magazine editing, wildlife and landscape painting.

Following is The New York Times obituary of Al Feldstein.

Al Feldstein, the Soul of Mad Magazine, Dies at 88

By BRUCE WEBER
MAY 1, 2014

Al Feldstein, who took over a fledgling humor magazine called Mad in 1956 and made it a popular, profitable and enduring wellspring of American satire, died on Tuesday at his ranch in Paradise Valley, Montana. He was 88.

His wife, the former Michelle Key, confirmed the death. In recent years, he was a wildlife and landscape painter in Montana, outside Livingston.

Mr. Feldstein had been a writer and illustrator of comic books when he became editor of Mad four years into its life and just a year after it had graduated from comic-book form to a full-fledged magazine.

The founding editor, Harvey Kurtzman, established its well-informed irreverence, but Mr. Feldstein gave Mad its identity as a smart-alecky, sniggering and indisputably clever spitball-shooter of a publication with   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 13097 characters.]  Artist bio

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