Posted on 07/27/2016 8:17:10 PM PDT by Beowulf9
The veteran illustrator also provided covers for 'TV Guide' and poster artwork for 'The Long Goodbye' and 'It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.'
Jack Davis, a cartoonist and illustrator best known for being one of the founders of MAD Magazine, has died, the humor publication confirmed Wednesday. He was 91.
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Jack illustrated a lot of zany LP covers too.
RIP
Great story!
One of the last of the original EC Comics artists, I believe.
Mad (the comic book) started at EC Comics which became Mad Magazine to avoid the comics code authority (which was more to suppress competition to DC and MLJ/Archie in the 50’s rather than to protect the innocent young comic readers). Spa Fon!
BTW, other EC artists included Jack Kamen whose son is the inventor Dean Kamen.
:-)
RIP Jack Davis! I loved that mag when I was growing up. Such great entertainment packed into every issue. I browse through it in the grocery store sometimes, enjoying the memories.
Thanks to MAD and Jack Davis for shaping my formative years.
Not only for MAD, but he also did some LITTLE ANNIE FANNY for PLAYBOY.
His movie posters are instantly recognizable.
RIP Jack Davis.....
Jack Davis - he shares top honors with Windsor McCay, Walt Kelly, Al Capp and Darby Conley (Get Fuzzy) in my own personal cartoonists’ Hall of Fame.
I can’t possibly describe my delight whenever I ran across one of Davis’ works, be it a feature in Mad, a TV Guide cover or some advertisement. He brought me a lot of joy.
Thanks and RIP, Jack.
Jack Davis was great. He illustrated about a million comic books in the 50’s and 60’s.
Last time I looked at MAD, it was full of leftie propaganda.
He was a proud Georgia Bulldog and drew countless illustrations for the football program.
RIP DGD
“Hey, Khrushchev, got a communist bloc . . . take a laxative!”
Yep - the bigger the blockbuster film, the bigger the target it was for their satire. There were always dozens of related cartoons that accompanied the movie spoof. I remember the issue they did on Star Wars in '77 (Star Roars, IIRC). There was a cartoon of Vader releasing his Force-chokehold on the Imperial officer, then using the Force to grope an attractive woman on the rump. Perfect.
I also found this on YouTube.
I loved SPYvsSPY and still love do.RIP Jack.
Don’t know if he drew them, but my favorite was Spy vs Spy. Also for some reason, the memory of “Dustbin Hoffman” came to mind.
John Junkin is reading “Son of Mad” in “A Hard Day’s Night”.
A friend of mine has issues going back to the 1950s. Great stuff! I remember a recurring page called “Scenes We’d Like To See”.
My dad sings MAD songs. "On the Seat Where I Sit" (Street Where You Live) is one of them. "Trashcans Aweigh." "Nose Job."
Some of them were in phonograph records that came with the magazine (?)
He says it was great, but he's an aficionado of novelty songs.
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